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We are very proud to be working along side the existing agency and contracting staff. You are right that many times, they do know how to fix it and need some help from us getting management to let them do it. Some times they are skeptical, sometimes there is friction - that's all completely understandable.

Ultimately, my time in government has opened my eyes to the talented folks inside government right now and I'm proud to be working along side them. I hope you didn't get a poor impression of us and the work that is happening.
> Speaking as an lady old fart on the Internet, it wasn't nearly this bad 15, 20 years ago.

That I will definitely agree with, but the demographics were much different. Back then the Internet was almost entirely professional companies and university students. Now it's literally everyone, and that means you get roughly the same ratio of shitty people to normal people, amplified by the fact that all you need to start a twitter account is an email address.

I get that a lot of people have issues with Facebooks real name policy, but forgetting the problems than transgender folk have with getting Facebook to let them use the name they want, it has done a great deal to curb harassment on that platform.

IMHO you can have a good community, you can have an anonymous community, but with regular people in the mix you can't have both.
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Sorry, but this isn't a "whole other world of pain." Increase the multiple to dozens, hundreds, or thousands. That is a whole other world of pain. (I've worked in a project that started with literally 500 re-implementations of doubly linked lists.)
> Is there not a more contradictory thing to say? I don't know how Libertarians are okay with others using their moniker for something that doesn't seem libertarian.

Its doublethink, yes.

Thiel publicly proclaims he is a libertarian but his genuine, underlying belief is he can change the world and enforce his beliefs upon it.

This is pretty much the antithesis of Gary Johnson who is very much the live and let live libertarian.

http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education...

> I remain committed to the faith of my teenage years: to authentic human freedom as a precondition for the highest good. I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual. For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.”

> But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible. By tracing out the development of my thinking, I hope to frame some of the challenges faced by all classical liberals today.

http://archive.is/pQc1F

> He is now not so much a libertarian as a corporate Nietzschean, who believes in the power of gifted entrepreneurs to change the world through the sheer force of will and intellect.
This is analogous to adding code to cover security issues. 99.9% isn't good enough when people are actively looking to exploit the 0.1%.
That is the standard definition for accounting and has been that way for a while:

Persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists
Delivery has occurred or services have been rendered
The seller's price to the buyer is fixed or determinable
Collectibility is reasonably assured.

Stock compensation doesn't make it not an expense. It is coming from somewhere. It is coming from the equity holders pockets therefore it is a real cost.

The basic definition is Assets=Liability+Equity.

So rewriting it E=A-L

If you you pay a person with cash:
E-C=A-C-L

When you pay person with equity:

E-X where X is equity you are losing in both cases they are equivalent. So stock option are not free and need to be treated as an expense.
I think it's less about the "can I afford this" and more about "I don't know if this will be valuable, and I'm not willing to pay $50 on a gamble"
Gary will appeal to libertarian leaning, but much less to principled libertarians.

A lot of his recent statements have come across as major disappointments to core libertarians.

Such as his support of Hillary over her emails, reluctance to audit the fed, support for basic income and his VP pick which is seen as purely establishment.
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> There are so many annoying if not dangerous default settings (like hiding known file extensions, virus.pdf.exe appears as "virus.pdf") that like many people I have scripts to do that.

Are they still doing that? I would have thought that people would have realized what a horrible, horrible idea this was by now and rolled it back. Amazing.
Indeed, I think the use of such a derogatory description in an article called "be nice" is messed up.
Right. And I'm all for encouraging more people to get interested in this industry, but I don't do it by pointing my figure at all of the people already working in this industry.
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I would think that if any major voting bloc were to turn against Silicon Valley, it'd be Trump's populist base.
They're uncomfortable with him supporting Trump but fine with him using his billions to underwrite legal campaigns against people he doesn't like?
I'm curious about how the two relate to each other. Is 99B supposed to supplant or complement POODR?

Edit: looks like the later. The Products page has a description of both: http://www.sandimetz.com/products/
Used this recently for a client's static site. In our case, we had an existing React codebase for the app part of the site, so using React for the static site gave us a consistent way to get composition of components and also allowed us to reuse a header widget from the app on the static site in a very clean way.

One thing I wish was easier was disabling the whole react-router part and just outputting standalone pages.
Any idea why Shumway was graveyarded?
This is a topic I suspect many people are interested in, and thinking about.
There is also a lot of information out there. In terms of frequency, there seems to be no upper limit to what is good, but there is a diminishing return curve:

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/blogging-frequency-benchma...

And best time of day and day of week:

http://coschedule.com/blog/best-time-to-publish-a-blog-post/

Note that you can still tweet or facebook the blog after it is posted, and the tweet and facebook schedule may be more relevant since that is likely how people will find it.

The thing that I really wonder about: how do you find the time to produce something good. To write even once a week you have to find a topic, think about it, write about it and then edit it.
Shame on Thiel. Robert Reich - "

Yesterday, Trump argued that the United States should investigate every American who practices Islam. "We really have to look at profiling," Trump told CBS's "Face the Nation." And that the government should investigate mosques in the U.S.

Never before has a major party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States urged that an entire religion be singled out for investigation. Each day, it seems, Trump comes closer to the fascism America went to war against in 1941. Why doesn’t Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and every Republican leader withdraw their endorsement of him and disavow this hatefulness? To nominate this bigot for the highest office in America is a slap in the face of American values, constitutional rights, and the pluralism America stands for. Trump must be dumped.
"

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One by one, Republican leaders are falling in line behind a man who says undocumented workers “bring drugs, crime, they’re rapists;” who claimed “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the Twin Towers collapsing; who says black criminals are responsible for 81 percent of homicides against whites, which turns out to be a racist myth from white supremacist website; who tells a Jewish group "I'm a negotiator, like you folks;" who bullies, humiliates, and threatens his opponents, including a federal judge now hearing a case against one of his businesses; who suggested President Obama wasn’t born in the United States, that childhood vaccinations cause autism, and that human-caused climate change is a hoax; and whose hateful and demeaning attitude toward women is best summed up in an interview where he said “women, you have to treat them like shit.”

By falling into line behind Trump, Republican leaders are lending legitimacy to such hatefulness, bigotry, and lies. Shame on them.
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Revenue deferral is not strange. It probably is a company has prepaid for licenses. Licenses can't be counted as revenue until it is delivered to them. However the cash can be collected early.
Agreed that this is a good thing. Strict dogma is bad and unsustainable.

The core team has backed off from "the code is the construct" philosophy, both implicitly by executing this fork, and explicitly in other publications.

It's a black mark on the trust record for Ethereum, but hard lessons learned are the best ways to grow.

Folks that look at this as a black and white "Ethereum can no longer be trusted" are ironically applying strict dogma in the other direction.

I am not making any calls about the value of Ethereum. Just that evolving philosophy and software systems is a very good and necessary thing.
Most big-L Libertarians are not small-L libertarians.
> but it can't be harassment if it's not repeated.

Incorrect. Sexual harassment doesn't require repeated conduct, though repeated conduct is more likely to be harassment (both because it is more likely to create a hostile environment simply because of the pervasiveness, and because it is more likely that the actor will be in a position where they should reasonably have known that it was unwelcome.)
> After the DAO there were broad calls criticising the lack of leadership,
> criticism about decentralized/consensus decisionmaking, and comparisons
> with the broader economy and how the Fed can orchestrate a bailout (and
> why that's better - in the eyes of the critics).

This explanation would be acceptable if the motivating factor behind the hardfork were enabling bail-outs, rather than the loss of $60 million.

(Angry customer calls up used car salesman)

Customer: The car alarm you promised would work doesn't work. I'm afraid someone will steal my car.

Car salesman: I'm awfully sorry about that.

Customer: Also, the engine broke. I can't start the car anymore!

Car salesman: Great! So I assume the missing car alarm isn't a problem anymore then?
Mexico has a massive border wall on its southern border with Guatemala. Is that racist too?

Not sure exactly what you mean by anti-trade, and how it relates to racism.

Mexican is a nationality, not a race. There are Mexicans of all races, including white(which latinos are classed as, but lets say western european ethnicity too)

Islam is a religion, not a race. There are Muslims of all races, including white.
As I am no expert but curious about exploring implications / applications, thanks for the clarity!
Just because Clinton isn't libertarian, doesn't mean Trump is. I think the public has a basic capacity for logic and that's as basic as it gets.

You know who is libertarian? Gary Johnson.
> Aren't there other ways of immersing yourself deeply ?

Side projects.

Finding a co-founder/business partner with deep experience in the industry. (Worked for me.)
I've seen an adult hawk predate a small dog before. The dog was likely killed by the impact of the hawk, though I couldn't be sure because the hawk carried the limp body away before the owner could take any action.

Here's another example:

http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Hawk-flies-away-with-fami...
I'm curious which of these points downvoters are disagreeing with. I say this as someone with family members who look very much "Mexican" to most Americans.

I don't like Trump's talk at all, but how would anyone with illegal immigrant parents would have comfortable family gatherings after supporting Trump? Job or not, family is strong.

Is this just an example of herd HN behavior?
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Creating a phrase does not mean you get to define how the community uses it.

I don't disagree, but it's also up to the tech community to keep terms clean/accurate. Even if you don't follow the OSI definition, I think 'open source' clearly points to a set of licenses for most in the developer community.

When the term became popular, lot of companies tried to piggyback on the success of the name, trying to dilute it.
A national slight on top of a nitpick does not make for good HN comments.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129043 and marked it off-topic.
Sadly, in neither case will you ever have 100% compliance.
Pretending it's achievable, and trying to achieve it, is IMHO, silly.

Remember the regulations do not prevent fraud, enforcement prevents fraud. There already exist plenty of things saying it's not okay, etc. Saying "and also, don't do that" is probably not actually necessary most of the time, in the same way saying "don't shoot people" is sufficient. Saying "and also don't shoot them while they are handcuffed" isn't necessary. Crappy post-justification does mean the regulation was written wrong, and changing the regulation to account for the post-justification will not actually improve the process most of the time.
"sexual harassment" is a term with its own specific definition, which is not precisely a naïve combination of the simplest common definitions of "sexual" and "harassment".
This is nonsense. I can make a lot of profit by mugging people - does that mean I've created value?

Likewise, I can volunteer my labour to build houses for the homeless, clean up a park... Since I wasn't remunerated for it, does that mean I didn't create any value?
$49 for a lifetime software engineering wisdom? You refactor a single class that you never have to revisit again and you've easily paid for this.

I will never understand programmer's cost/benefit analysis..
If you want a serious rabbit hole, think about Unicode characters in filenames. Windows filenames are supposedly UTF-16, but they do not enforce the requirement that surrogate pairs (which represent characters over 0xFFFF, like emoji) must actually be paired, so you're not guaranteed that a UTF-16 decoder will actually read a filename successfully. UNIX filenames are just untyped byte strings that don't contain NUL or /, which by convention are ASCII or UTF-8 these days, but nothing enforces that; if you run ls, it will just print whatever bytes are in the filename to the terminal, and make it the terminal's problem. So round-tripping an arbitrarily weird UNIX filename to Windows, or vice versa, is challenging.

If you're in a position to enforce well-formed Unicode on all platforms, you're much better off. But many things (e.g. backup systems) don't get the option to just refuse files they don't like.
This argument is often double-downed with "You're sexist if you don't support Hillary". You don't want to be a racist/sexist, right? Vote Hillary!

Both arguments are increasingly why so many people are supporting Trump. They are emotional appeals based on presumptions that aren't necessarily true - and are more irritating than compelling. It also hurts the image of legitimate social issues. When everything is racist/sexist then being racist/sexist no longer holds any meaning.
Hmm, yes those popular racial categories of "European/West Asians" and "Hispanic".

If your test can accurately group "Hispanics" which no-one actually claims is a race, then it doesn't prove that any other grouping it finds is a "race", however that is defined.
That's a good point about Brexit because I noted even here on HN a great deal of overt resentment toward people who are older who largely voted #leave - as though their votes were less valid because of their age.
Only as long as it's in the best interest of that powerful navy.
Sandi really distills knowledge well. I haven't bought this book yet, but after reading POODR, I'd take 20 pages from her over 100 from another author. I think it's easily worth $50, but I realize we're in an age where we're used to $19 ebooks. Again, I'd pay $100 for her material over somebody else's $19 book. (Not compensated or anything, just a fan of not wasting my time and of awesome materials that help me accomplish that goal)
Sadly, that is not the case. From the aforementioned link:

http://www.aauw.org/files/2016/02/Fig-5_spring-2016.jpg

The median salary of younger women, ages 16-34, is 90-92% that of their male peers, a smaller but still significant gap compared to the median salary of older women, ages 35 and up, which is between 76% and 81% that of their male peers.
In addition to the sibling comments, there's also the critique of libertarianism as inherently being for those who have "made it." As it, it is easier to agitate for less government regulation and no social welfare net, if one does not benefit from such. And so libertarianism becomes a cover for protecting one's status of privilege. Thus, a shift to "traditional" conservatism which protects that privilege, as typified by nationalism, would be natural for a disgruntled libertarian.

This is one critique that has been made and is of course debatable. It's important to not simply evaluate a political ideology by its tenets, but also the demographics of its supporters, to understand the "culture" that grows around a belief system. We often do the same to religions, after all.
You are entirely correct -- I got tunnel vision/brain fart and mixed NF and NR up, newbie mistake!

NR is initialized to 1 on the first line, and is incremented for every subsequent line read. So, in this case, the above pattern will match any line after the first.
Re suits: As far as I know, he was never found guilty in any of those law suits. "Settling" is not an admission of guilt. It could just as easily be the cost/benefit of fighting the lawsuit is not worth it. The government has deep pockets after all.

Re central park 5: Yes, that was a huge blunder(as was that entire case for that matter). Is there any indication it was based on their race, and not the savagery of the crime they were accused of?

Re birther: What does that have to do with race? "American" isn't a race.
This is all rather silly and should never have been allowed to happen in the first place.
That's not just stereotype threat - to give an example, there are people I know in their early 20s who were strongly discouraged from doing higher level maths in high school, and as a result, had a much harder university level maths experience.
what was the conclusion ? it's not gyroscopic effects because they still balance with counter-rotating wheels, it's not trail because they can still balance with negative trail. Is it some of each of these effects, if so how much ? What else is involved ?
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Looks like there are patent issues. Android supports it, so HLS works in Chrome for Android but not desktop Chrome. And Firefox might support it on mobile at some point but not on desktop. Sites can use e.g. Dailymotion's HLS.js https://github.com/dailymotion/hls.js and Firefox users could install this wrapper extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/native-hls/
Right, because protecting marine life is such a commie thing...
I don't think that a 200k apartment and a 5 million dollar luxury apartment are substitutes.

In Chicago, a 300k condo and a 600k single family home ARE substitutes. I know many people that could afford either. As the delta shifts one way or another, more of them will opt for the other choice.
No. That's called thought-policing, and it's wrong.

We should not harm people's livelihood just because we don't like their politics.
He has criticized John McCain and Lindsey Graham over their pro war stances. In the debates he has mentioned problems with the interventionist foreign policy.

Surprisingly he even attracted support of Michael Scheuer ( a huge critic of our interventionist foreign policy), although I believe he has pulled back a bit on that recently.

However, yes he has also made somewhat contradictory statements as well. So, it is hard to draw any definitive conclusions what his actual policy would look like.
That is interesting. I hadn't come across that idea before. He's effectively shorting American democracy and rule of law. If he wins, he will collect a huge windfall (aside from the access, imagine all the contracts that Palantir will win). If he loses, he still has his status in the Valley, where he hasn't been ostracized for heterdox ideas.
> “Why should they get all the money?” thinks Mr. Son.

> What if ARM Holdings turned itself into Qualcomm?

This is basically the type of thinking that (over the long term) will alienate ARM's customers (perhaps even Apple, or Qualcomm itself).

Normally, I would be pissed off at this, but I'm not because I know such actions by ARM would lead to higher popularity for the RISC-V architecture in the future, not just for mobile, but also for IoT, which seems to be Softbank's "big bet" with ARM.

It's not a "wrong" strategy for Softbank, just "different" from what ARM has been doing so far, and although it could lead to much higher revenues, profits, and market cap for Softbank, it should also have a direct negative impact on the ISA's ubiquity and its number of licensees.
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Transmit it as a JSON list or whatever. We're already assuming we're breaking UNIX userspace compatibility, so any option for reliably transmitting lists of strings is fine, and we have lots of those.
Turkey is still building F-16 components under license, feeding the Lockheed-Martin supply line for many customers. I don't believe they have any problems maintaining serviceability.

Many have already been upgraded to Block 50 and the most basic are Block 30, all well beyond 1980s capabilities.

Avionics maintenance might be an issue but but the Israelis are quite capable of aiding there.

Your criticisms were quite valid in the 1980s when both Turkey and Greece were considered liabilities in terms of NATO capability but certainly not today.
I have an S7 as my secondary (primary is 6S Plus) so I'm a casual user at best, but the SIM slot appears to hold both the SIM and a MicroSD.
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It's crazy that the perpetual security disaster hasn't been enough to disable Flash so far. (Goes for Chrome too, but at least they have reasonable sandboxing for it)
ASCII 255 used to be fun in the Windows 3.1 days. DOS would handle just fine (displaying whitespace). The Windows Explorer (or whatever it was called back then) would not let you select a directory named like that. Basically this made a directory inaccessible, unless dealing with very tech savvy people.
Unless Thiel is actually interested in backing a candidate with a chance of winning - in which case, 5% means nothing.
You can minimize the use of the equipment to tests that ensure its operational, made on dry land or with precautions preventing the sound to disturb marine life. Training can happen on simulators.