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> That said, at least supreme court judges in the US (and other countries) don't have the power to topple the government, execute ministers, outlaw political parties etc. That's one way the military providing "a check on democracy" is even worse.

Right, so I doubt anyone in this thread would claim the Turkish coup system is better than the US system, except perhaps by making a strained appeal to a very different culture necessitating more drastic checks on democracy (or something). So you don't really need to argue this.

And the rest of your argument for radical democracy doesn't have much to do with Turkey per se, the topic of this thread.
If we're getting nitpicky, let's use the term TLS to describe the protocol and X.509 to describe the certificates and renewals.
You can even update Nginx binary with no downtime - https://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#upgrade
Domestication brings about neoteny. Adult domesticated animals maintain appearance and behaviors that wild animals only have when they are young.

Young mammals are very cute to us, possibly because we are mammals too and inherit our cute-sense from a common mammal ancestor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny#In_domestic_animals
Good article and a point I often make myself. Islam isn't just a religion. It's a political ideology and political system as well.
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Ok I don't doubt the premise but first we have to be able to interface with our "cloud" app without speaking. People don't like to use a voice device in public.
What tools are working best in our classrooms?
It's stuff like this that I think of when people, often speaking out of emotion, liken the United States government to an authoritarian regime.
As Shakespeare might once have said:

What's in a name? That which we call TLS
By any other name would still offer encryption.
I do not agree with the rest. I do not see how his support of ISIS is necessarily harmful. ISIS is a grassroots movement with a goal of Islamic solidarity.

ISIS is opposed to US intervention in the region because it views such intervention as harming Islamic solidarity. I do not think that (aside from some demand for Erdogan's loyalty to the US) that being supportive of such a movement in the region is necessarily a bad thing.

Of course, the tactics used by ISIS leave a lot to be desired, but so do the tactics used by the US in fighting ISIS, so I am not necessarily prepared to declare ISIS unconditionally morally in the wrong.
My 2 cents as someone who has interviewed a fair number of people,

State your accomplishments. Technical skills can be learned. I feel that learning technology is part of the job, not a prerequisite for the job. on your linked-in, okay list every little thing if you want non-technical recruiters to find you w/ keywords... But as a hiring manager, I want to see someone who can learn and grow into the role. Having technology experience relevant for the role is worth highlighting but not every bit of technical experience. Otherwise highlight technologies you've used in your accomplishments only but focus on the accomplishment itself. Focus more on the activities - what big important features did you implement, not what technology you used to implement the features. The positive outcome of the work is more important than how you got there.

Eg having worked on an open source project, managing contributions from other developers, releasing etc is more important than the project itself.
The poster I was replying to is really the one who needs to prove that deep RL is super easy like they were claiming.
Depends on how you define success. Officially Afghanistan and Iraq were successes, but the messy "post-war" situation in Iraq was a major factor to the strength of ISIS.

Modern warfare really seems to be less about the actual war and more about post-war occupation.
You are right.

But that reinforces the practical part of my advice: don't worry if the skills list doesn't make sense to you, as long as it conforms to whatever the job decription is asking for.
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To me, I think this represents a failure of the currency. Either the code is the final word on the contract or not. This process seems to give a cartel of people the power to revoke transactions on a whim. Who would commit to building anything in an environment like that?
But why is "telemetry" also going to domains like ad.doubleclick.net or adnexus.net?
Whether you like this or not, goes to show that developers have to get their hands dirty with mining. If you remain in your ivory tower, you will not control the protocol after it gains any significant traction.
Over/underpasses are extra physical effort, which quickly gets old when you pull that luggage bag, carry groceries, have physical disability or are over 60 years old. They encourage jaywalking in the streets designated for high traffic. In the cities, they seem to be rarely in the place you'd want them, often being at a decent detour distance from the crossing corners.
I really doubt so, even if you might be thinking of "conservatives" in the very narrow sense of US southern republicans.

I would admit that I do not have that many gay friends, but the few friends, coworkers and acquaintances I have met over the past 10 years very across the political spectrum just like everyone else.
Not all of them are liberal, not all of them were even on the same page as far as things like "gay marriage" went, doesn't mean any of them opposed it, but it doesn't mean that they were active supporters of it either.
Not everyone defines themselves by their sexual orientation.

You can be "conservative" (or right wing if you will) on many things like national defense, economics, and public spending while being gay, claiming that somehow you have to accept everything that the "left wing" stands for just because you like individual of the same sex as you are is quite telling, oddly enough this level of framing and bias is almost synonymous with the PC crowd - "but you are 'x' how can you be against 'y'", you call it by different names for it but I've seen way too many "liberals" act like authoritarian douchebags and call people of various "minority" groups what can effectively be analogous to a "race traitor" when they don't share their views or buy into their entire agenda.

You can be an african american and not support BLM, you can be a gay man or woman and believe be against state laws that allow or disallow gay marriage simply by believing that it is not upto the state to police marriage, and you can be a gun toting 2nd amendment defender while being a gay pro abortion pro legalization woman.

Stop trying to infantilize people and stick them into camps, if anything you should take from the recent US election (especially bernie vs trump) is that there are considerably more "opinions" out there than you might expect.
How do you propose we cut construction costs? Should we cap labor rates on the workers? Looking at your lists (and from my own personal experience with people who have been on the various jobs listed), it seems obvious to me that the major differentiator between jobs is the labor costs. It just flat out costs more to hire skilled labor in the US and UK versus Singapore or Japan. This is largely related to union rates and municipal regulations on wages.

How do we get 2-10x more transit for the same money? Where in your mind can we actually cut costs?
We were creating a chrome / firefox extensions to manipulate the gmail UI, the project was unrelated to email protocols (but I understand the snark ;-) )
> Coding it is not the hard part.

Truer words have never been said. Selling your vision/workflow/business structure/data presentation is the hard part. Many of the things one may code as a solution will directly and negatively effect the job security of the exact person your are selling to, but that is the challenge. The secondary effect is a chilling of innovation by limiting the automation gains/improvements in some way to limit the impact of value depreciation of current workers.
This seems to work, (ps -ef)().map((a)=>{return [a[0],a[7]]}).forEach((a)=>{console.log(a)})
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From a historical perspective : https://www.quora.com/Why-are-so-many-tech-companies-based-i...

Tldr; early internet infrastructure
I meant actual success, obviously. North Korea is culturally homogenous, and culturally similar to South Korea. There is no comparison to Afghanistan and Iraq.

It also goes without saying that if America was willing to fully occupy Iraq for a few more decades, I'm completely confident Iraq would be stable - the cost is ridiculously prohibitive, however.
Burying our dead is a primarily western culture tradition. Many other cultures prefer cremation for example. Why would the birds care how you dispose of the body?

It's possible the birds knew OP wasn't the killer and were hoping to intimidate them into leaving the body alone in hopes of catching the real killer, but that's just a guess.
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Countless words have been written about this, but does MS see it as a problem?
As others write, the data protection agency doesn't have any real power. As a result very few companies and even other government agencies really care about the opinion of the data protection agency.

It doesn't make sense to fine anyone, or even try to prosecute, because everyone will just claim that they are just doing as instructed, and a fine to government agency is a little weird.

The issue is a very combination of a belief that any problem can be slowed using IT, and at the same time refusing to make any effort to understand IT. In terms of IT the Danish government is completely ignorant, bordering on the incompetent.

I don't think I would be completely of, if I claim that almost no one working in Denmark has ever received any real training in basic IT, and least of all in data protection. It's naively assumed that everyone in society has the skills required use a computer, and threat data with the care that is needed.

The basic issue is that the person in charge of making the CDs didn't see an issue with not encrypting them, or not knowing how to do so. It a culture of incompetence and happy ignorance.
"Formal declaration?" You're literally ticking a per user settings box tied to your Windows Account. Nobody is asking to declare anything formally or otherwise.

They could call it "Power User Mode" but then every gamer would tick it because they think they're more computer literate than most of them are. Better to keep the name as Developer Mode simply to discourage a certain subset of users from thinking it is for them (this has proved effective on Android, where hiding the developer settings kept the self proclaimed "power users" out).

> None of those things are developer-specific features.

It allows sideloading apps, debugging apps, USB & network remote debugging, and USB & network remote debug discovery.
What's happening: the block number of the hard fork is much bigger than the block number of the non-fork. This means that most of the mining power is being devoted to the hard fork chain since it is longer. The non-fork can't keep up, so the fork is considered a success.
I agree. The catering to the common man has become more and more prevalent over the years. The first thing I do on a fresh windows install is show full paths and full extensions. I was so pissed when I couldn't change the installation drive of Microsoft Office. Kinda like iOS vs Android. I think iOS purposely doesn't provide features/customizations to make their product easier to use for "the common man". I wish all these products would ask you on installation, how hands off do you want the product.
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This may not answer your question, but is still relevant:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
It's not idiotic to think that some support the coup, and the parent poster specifically says we simply don't know how many support it or not.
Reminds me of David Andersons talk about risk profiles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPa0FE4hRs
> For instance, in 2008 Marzluff had researchers in caveman masks capture crows while others in a control mask—Dick Cheney—let the birds be. Afterward the birds ignored the harmless Cheneys but scolded and chased the cavemen, and did so for years.

I feel like they should have swapped the masks around for this one.
I'll be the last person to sing praises for the CIA's competence but if the CIA had been involved in the coup I certainly would expect at least Erdogan (if not some of his major officials) to be in a casket right now.

If there was any CIA involvement, they obviously let the interns run the show.
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Except it appears this group had effective-enough opsec, and it's likely at least some of them are still operating(if not the group itself). Grugq is widely respected in this field and there's a lot to learn here.
Anything available for google hangouts like this?
A raven, speaking Finnish? Sounds like a bad omen!
Note that this says more about the defaults in software than about any Ethereum user's opinion.

(The miners may or may not be more informed, but note that Ethereum is only valuable if users are willing to exchange things of value for Ethereum, i.e. a hard fork requires changes in wallet software.)
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Looking in from the outside as someone with no involvement with Ethereum, I really don't understand how the people behind it can justify using their privileged position as developers and community leaders to try to undo this. They spent a lot of time talking about how "the code is the contract"... until they stood to be negatively impacted on a personal level by allowing the literal meaning of the code to stand. I'm not sure how anyone could have any confidence in this system after that.
Well its a matter of prospective. Value for a shareholder is usually the opposite of value as a consumer.

You also have to remember the subscription model that these razors run under. Gillette will happily give you a shaving handle + 1-2 cartridges for free, the theory being you are then locked into their system. Thus "value" is created for them, on expectations of future revenue.
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"> You don’t need to mention your GPA or that you once worked at Google.
You don't need to, but it helps."

I'm curious, do you have anecdotal evidence for this? Would it help if you were the potential investor? Have you seen scenarios where founders got funding after mentioning they worked at Google, but wouldn't have gotten funding otherwise?
It's irrelevant given TypeScript and ES2015+.
One of the Apache Zeppelin committers here.

Thanks for honest feedback (although it sounds bitter) - we are working hard on improving situation with release schedule indeed.

If there is any chance you could elaborate on installation experience though a JIRA issue [1] - that would be very much appreciated.

1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN
Yes we are playing with exif data, tomorrow we will publish first infographic from the data we've analysed already.
> I took a wilderness survival course in college

That's interesting - do you mean as a part of a social club, or actual scholarly study of survival techniques? Or maybe to support a major in something like archeology? Or maybe a military college?
Bottom line:

"Vision is simply not suited to the nature of the problem: grasping tasks are a matter of contact and forces, which cannot be monitored by vision. At best, vision can inform the robot about finger configurations that are likely to succeed, but in the end a robot needs tactile information."
I remember having VPS-like setup over 10 years ago for cheap, on FreeBSD using jails.
Having used both SASS and LESS professionally, I'll say that it's easy to end up with an over-engineered mess that's difficult to maintain and reason about.

That said, the tooling around both preprocessors is great, so it shouldn't be a huge burden to set it up. Because they're supersets of standard CSS, I don't see a reason why you wouldn't use one. Use the features you like, ditch the ones you don't.
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Why is Chrome version 29 disproportionately popular?
Author here.. If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe that's how things are already working. The very first time a client hits a new domain, the SSL handshake initiates the certificate registration with Let's Encrypt (assuming the domain is part of the whitelist of allowed domains). The certificate is registered in the background, while this first request is paused. The SSL handshake is then completed with the first client once the certificate is successfully issued. This does lead to the very first client's request being delayed a few seconds, but this is a one-time delay (per allowed domain).
On the contrary, many of cats' predator characteristics make them cute -- for example, their large, forward-facing eyes, the way they pounce on and bat at things (the little ass wiggle they do just before striking is particularly adorable), their little fangs (giving a character cat fangs is an anime way of conveying "mischievous cuteness"), etc.

They are also fairly intelligent. Intelligence can be cute, and the cuteness of intelligence is enduring. Rabbits are cute to look at, but make for boring pets; cats and dogs can fascinate and charm us for years and quickly become considered friends and the near-equals of humans. And don't tell me that a cat who's figured out how to operate doorknobs or lightswitches isn't adorable.

A lot of this has to do with the fact that we are also predators and these characteristics remind us of ourselves (in particular, our young).
You realize that this is the same mechanism used by groups like the EFF, ACLU, and NAACP to bring cases? And what about a lawyer agreeing to take a case on contingency; isn't that technically the lawyer funding the case, and not the plaintiff?

Also, what is the alternative here? Sure, Hogan maybe has enough money that he could have funded the case. Could Joe Smith working his 9-to-5 have funded that case? If not, how is he supposed to get justice, if this exact situation happens to him? Money is already a problem in court, isn't restricting the funding sources of the common person therefore a negative outcome?

Finally, this was discussed the last time this case came up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11878742
I'm not sure if gp is American, but if he is then I would presume he is, indeed serious. The US Constitution is almost impossible to amend in practice, and a ridiculously small percentage of the American population can block an amendment. Indeed, the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made this point.*

This has may have led to a perception from Americans that constitutions ought to be difficult to amend by their nature, and that is an essential feature of republicanism, since the US Constitution is practically set in stone-hence the immense power of the US Supreme Court justices.
In fact, most countries do make it considerably easier to change their constitutions (with a straightforward super-majority, in most cases), and to adapt to the needs of the people. The idea of an unbreakable and sacred tyranny of people who are long dead (The Founders) is something unique to the US, among constitutional democracies.The arguments about things being needing to be set in stone confuse cause and effect.

*http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_ch...
Ah, put the whole command in parens!

It might make sense to put a note in the README about that, unless it's already there and I missed it somehow...
Seems potentially useful in some cases but overall obvious as to how it would garner false positives. Basically limits things to 1 comment per person who upvoted.
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Hi HN,

Long time lurker. Recently jumped into the world of startups.

I recently accepted a job working as a developer for a startup in NY that just completed Series A funding. In my employment offer, they promised me 0.75% worth of shares at the companies current valuation.

I'm working through the paperwork now with the company lawyers and it only specifies the number of shares that are being issued to me. It's my understanding that the number of shares are a worthless number without knowing how many shares have been issued in total. Is this correct?

What's the standard practise for an employee to know how many shares have been issued in total? Is it reasonable to expect the company to give me access to the full cap table? What about for future rounds of funding? Even after I leave the company but vest shares?

Thanks for your help.
> Given a good foundation, which could be Lisp or something even better, you can whip up the "simpler" languages in no time.

In practise, that foundation (for many programs) is Java byte code.
Indeed, China Mieville has spoken about it as an influence when writing The City and The City.
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The story from the Chinese Visa Application Office (CVAO) is that an employee opened the letter "by mistake":

>"It said that it was contacted by an employee of the Chinese Visa Application Centre who said she opened the letter addressed to Statistics Denmark “by mistake” but then delivered the package to the statistics agency." (TheLocal, linked above, http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-million-danish-id-numbe...). //

Having worked as a civil servant I find this unlikely if it were properly addressed. In the office I worked at all mail came in via a mail room who checked and registered it and directed it to relevant personnel.

Presumably the CVAO receive a lot of mail, they must have a dedicated system for recording [because we're talking about legal documents and receipt dates therefore are important to record] and directing that mail. So a piece of mail comes in for "Statistics Denmark", now what happens?

What I'd expect is it's sent to a mail-room manager to handle. They can then either redirect the mail unopened or forward it to some other personnel. I really can't see them just opening things "by accident" at all. They have a choice to honestly redirect unopened or to actually open it. Now, the opening may have been an individual's simple curiosity, for sure.

Interested in any other analysis particularly with reference to how mail receipt is handled in other country's civil service locations. I expect things have moved on somewhat, something like 'tag with barcode, photograph and the computer records the article' is probably the current workflow?
Oh I thought that made an easy target!
It's just a checkbox that's called "developer mode", it's not really the same as formally declaring yourself a developer. The important and interesting thing here is that there is a general power-user mode with shortcuts for people who know about advanced computer usage. That you own the computer is not a good measure of your capabilities with it, that would probably be a pretty confusing checkbox for the vast majority of users. I guess you have a point about the naming, but it needs to be (from msft point of view) some kind of name that doesn't tempt non-technical people to enable it.
Prior to this fork, I had interest in Ethereum. I don't want to touch it now, out of both mistrust and the feeling that the developers are lacking in ethics. It really feels like a pyramid scheme if they're not willing to let the technology stand on its own. It's really a shame.

Maybe some other group will fork the Ethereum code into a new cryptocurrency that can't have the blockchain forked as easily.