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You're taking a complicated issue and trying to turn it into a soundbite.

Why does the US claim it's a democracy if Mexicans can't vote in the US, even if they live there? It's because they're not citizens. Similarly, Palestinians living in the West Bank are not citizens of Israel. Other people, including many Arabs, that are citizens of Israel, do vote.

I'm not saying you're necessarily wrong btw - there's a lot of valid questions around whether it's OK or not that Palestinians are not citizens of Israel even though Israel controls their land (e.g. right of return, the idea that Israel should've annexed the land, etc). I'm just pointing out that what you bring up as a rebuke of Israel really isn't.
these are things I might consider if I was in your situation:
1) build something that you think will force you to learn whatever data structures and algorithms you want to learn. Two benefits; learning and having something to show for it
2) ask someone to do mock interviews with you to practice
3) take the coursera ML course - fascinating, useful, marketable skill and hard to do unless you have a couple of months free to dedicate
4) network. Coffee with people IRL regularly
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According to http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/ servers in different countries may see different maps based on geopolitical disputes. To be fair, Google should respond to queries from IP's in the state of Palestine with a map that has Palestine properly labeled.
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Some of my personal favorites from her blog:

http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/03/16/tcpdump-is-amazing/ quick introduction to TCP dump

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-p... diving into SQLite and sharing the findings with the readers

http://jvns.ca/blog/2014/08/12/what-happens-if-you-write-a-t... implementing TCP in Python

Most of them have valuable HN discussions as well.
Check out the 18F website; tours of duty are typically 6 months. The recruiter who contacted me about 18F told me to apply for a leave of absence from my job. Simultaneous employment is the only realistic way for most software developers who don't want to jump into a stressful job search.
Your statement makes no sense. How does control over a piece of land make a difference to democratic status? You could just as well ask why illegal/undocumented mexicans do not have representation in congress.

Palestinians have a Palestinian Authority citizenship and passport, and are not Israeli citizens (therefore cannot vote in the Israeli election, and thus have no direct representatives in the Knesset, although there are some Arab-Israeli members of the Knesset who consider themselves Palestinian and do, in some ways, represent them).

It so happens that, as a result of complicated and pretty fucked up history, (a) Israel exercises military control of the West Bank, and (b) A small but extremely loud minority of Israelis have built their homes in the West Bank, and the Israeli army looks after their interests.

The West Bank is NOT officially a part of Israel, has not been annexed, and plans to do so are not even on any table.

Israel used to have exactly the same kind of arrangement (military control, some settlers) in Gaza between 1967 and 2005, at which point, Israeli unilaterally pulled out of Gaza (forcibly moving all Israelis living in Gaza out, and leaving it to Palestinian and PA rule). In a very bloody internal war that also involved fraudulent elections, Hamas took control of Gaza from the PA, and essentially declared war on Israel, causing Israel to enforce a blockade of Gaza. 10 years and thousands of rockets and bombs deployed on both sides later, this is still where it is at.

Partially as a result of the experience of pulling out of Gaza, Israel is reluctant to pull out of the West Bank, which -- with some land trade -- was actually the plan.

I am not taking sides here, but, by western standards, which include (for example) the right of women to drive and not wear head covering, gay people to be gay, the right to drink alcohol, practice any religion you wish, and stuff like that - Israel indeed is the only democracy in the middle east. Hamas executes gay people. Saudi Arabia just jails them IIRC, and alcohol is verbotten even if you are Christian.
I can't really comment on any of the courses, but taking a few months off to learn and recharge sounds like a great idea if you can afford it.

However, the problems solved at Amazon, Google and Facebook aren't necessarily more "real" than what you're solving now. Google also builds a lot of Java webapps. Sure, there are many advantages to working at these companies, but be aware that you most likely won't end up on the team that builds the algorithms for the self driving car or the machine learning powered object detection for photos.
From viewing my profile it appears that they are public. I've never actually used it, just noticed the feature a while back. I've been using Instapaper for ages for my "read later" links.
Oh, man.

I used to work at Lonely Planet a few years ago. This sort of thing came up all the time.

Depending upon jurisdiction, there are even legal requirements about where borders lie, what you call different territories, etc.

And of course these requirements vary between jurisdictions. So a map that you can put in a book to sell in country X will have to be replaced with a different map in order to sell in country Y.

The Persian Gulf is the example that springs to mind, but IIRC there were many others too.
Keep it simple but long, see famous relevant xkcd "correct horse battery staple" . My randomly generated passwords are usually 16 characters, but my password manager master is 40+ chars, and much easier to remember.
Have a look at FlexJS.
What happened to Geohot? Any links?
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On the other hand people walk, jog and run and bike and stationarily bike many miles for nothing but to keep in shape. So people waste a lot of energy after overconsuming energy.

And then there is the flaneur.
One can already harass people on other sites. I could post to 4chan saying bad shit about a person. Or create a page with bad shit about a person.
And no risk of people confusing it with

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
I would say no. The book had been around for 1700 years without anyone picking up on its ideas. For a book full of ideas nobody seems to have cared about or understood, that's a long time.

Had it not been erased chances, Newton would probably still have invented calculus.
I think the key ingredient is to be reinforcement learning, and more importantly, agents being embedded in the external world.

Regarding the "internal world", we already see the development of AI mechanisms for attention, short term memory (references to concepts recently used), episodic memory (autobiographic) and semantic memory (ontologies).
No thanks. I am not giving you access to my FB/TWTR account (so you can scrape it for more poor souls to harass) just to stop you from using my name and likeness to make money.

Better idea: you stop yourself or get sued. :)
+1 from me because he's one of the few cases where his work is not only smart/educating in RL, but, as a bonus, he almost sounds like a fictional character, too good to be true.

When I first encountered him I thought to myself, "He sounds like somebody improvised up by Douglas Adams in HHGG. 'An apple fell from a tree. This was widely regarded as a bad move. In fact the most popular selling series of books on economics, by one Thorstein Veblen, in his The Theory of the Leisure Class, has pretty much confirmed this, though it has taken nearly a millenia for his proof to fully saturate and be accepted to date within the furthest reaches of the Galactic Empire, despite many incentives for readers such as scratch-and-sniff insta-win prizes.'"
-O3 is probably an excellent approximation. Faster programs tend to use less energy.
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If you think the glory of the big co awaits you, you'll be sorrily dissapointed. I worked for one of the companies listed, it was a shit show. Stick with startups. Do what you love. The only way to solve real problems is to be close to them. And most likely Big Co will put you near a black hole that will swallow you up.
cjdns is amazing. I've been using it for a while now as a decentralized vpn. It is really powerful to just be able to link machines together in a network where each node can reach each node as long as at least one other node can connect to that node. For example, I have two machines behind one router and two machines behind another router. Only one in each zone is approachable from the internet, and not always both (due to dynamic residential IPs for example). With cjdns all machines can access all machines as long as there is at least one path that can be traversed from the source machine to the destination, transparently hopping through intermediary machines if necessary. Even if the source machine can not reach the destination machine, but the destination can reach the source there is no problem because of the UDP tunneling.
Could you be more specific? If so, please be.
I hope as the web moves on we find an easy way of preserving a lot of the creative work that's been done in Flash.

Some sort of WebGL/asm.js/WebAssembly player for SWFs on the internet archive would be the pipe dream, I think. That way we could watch Strong Bad long after Flash is available in the future.
Your statement about jews is false. There are plenty of arab israelis that have voting rights, who choose to live in A, B and C territories of Judea and Samaria — while due to apartheid PA regime, israeli jews are banned from their territories based on ethnicity.
Trust the ABS to use this. They've consistently shown they have zero cognition of the criticism levelled at them.

But how are these kind of bots even a thing, for anyone? I can't think of a single case where it's a good idea to fire off automated tone-deaf social media replies that ignores negative sentiment.

This is the 21st century version of "your call is important to us, please hold".
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I've seen it do the opposite at a college. I would say always allow room for external auditing. Every few set of years. To disallow for coderot and even "developermold" which essentially produces coderot. I believed the same.

I think we need maybe either a tech branch or sub-branches per branch of government. Contracting is great and all but we need consistent development not one time fixes. I'm sick of hearing about how our government got hacked here or there every now and then.
This is true, however they don't purge any of the old archives. If the robots.txt is updated to allow bots again then all of the previous archives will become available again.
You really should go back to vim
Good luck first of all. Sounds like you've done well for yourself thus far.

If you got the savings, I would say go for it and take the time to learn. I don't know how helpful the math for computer science course will be but understanding various algorithms is useful for general knowledge and especially for interviews. Once you know basic algorithms, start on cracking the coding interview, hackerrank etc.

Lastly, I would say the grass is always greener on the other side, so don't disregard all you have accomplished and all that you will continue to do. If you think you will enjoy a job at a top company, go for it, but don't do it because you think what you are doing is inadequate.
> So for nearly 2000 years no advancement has been made on the topic, because religion.

The sad thing about the dark ages is that we don't know what we don't know. How many "heretical" books about physiology or psychology have been destroyed? And what was in them?
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I think Vatican archives might have some older classified documents.
With your experience in so many application areas, I doubt that so much theory oriented learning would be of much benefit. You are more likely to be hired for your domain knowledge.

Based on your plan, you would become better versed in several areas of theory, but still limited to being a Java programmer - which in turn will probably lock you into the enterprise space. Unlikely to give you real problem solving opportunities.

@grobaru hit the nail on the head. The established firms you list are either going to hire you for your general programming knowledge or for a specific project. In the latter case domain knowledge and experience is going to be valuable.

I think you need to revisit your goals. What industries do you prefer to work in? What domain knowledge do you bring to the table? Look at what languages, frameworks are used in those areas and then get some experience with them. And have you considered startups? Their mission and problem domain(s) tends to be more focused than the big companies.
Loving the chiptune. This is how you do an advisory.
Instagram castrated Snapchat like Facebook neutered Twitter
Big Co's are the Black Holes.
A little annoying to read through the gl animation but worth the nostalgia. What a find!! We now have our computers back!!
Some people forget that email almost always works as a way to reset passwords, and the also forget that dns registrars and dns hosts control where your email goes (if you're using your own domain).

Your email domain is a link in the authentication security chain for everything that'll let you send a "reset password" email. If someone can subvert your domain's MX records (by breaching your registrar account or your dns hosting, or by subverting the dns of the outgoing mail servers of the service they're trying to attack) then you've lost. If _any_ of those parts have weak authentication, your whole auth chain is weak.

(How much would you bet against me being able to change your cellphone account password and get your sms 2FA redirected if I can subvert the email account associated with your cellphone account? The OP is only lucky that his attacker wasn't quite sophisticated enough to attempt to take control of his cellphone account before firing off the Github 2FA SMS...)
I recently had a little feud with the developers of react-native and fresco (the Facebook image loading library) because of their extensive use of Finalizers:

https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1363

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/8780

Apart from being unreliable, bad design, it slows GC and instantiation by orders of magnitude, which I considered important, but they did not.

I added a comment about how uninstalling the Facebook app improves the battery life of a phone dramatically, that I deleted afterwards because it was too flamy.

I don't expect this to get fixed ever :(.
I mean I see the benefit, but any semi-competent proxy already caches based on the Vary header, and also the range header (per the HTTP 1.1 specification.) It shouldn't be a problem. Also query strings are per definition part of the URL.
will they address the elephant in the room and also say that Google analytics slow down 90% of the web just for tracking?
It's not clear from your comment: is the ops center people doing manual ingestion or are you talking about hardware?

Delta certainly should not be running their own datacenters, and its likely that they don't really do so to begin with. they (like every other airline) are running the same custom software and hardware that is creaking along, and is why every interaction at an airport runs sooooo slowly.
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They were mostly nobles (Poland had lots of these - almost 5% of population) or rich middle class women before feminism (so - no need to work).
> It'd be interesting to see how the 128-bit Murmur versions compare.

Added them (and some more hash functions) in a follow-up post: http://aras-p.info/blog/2016/08/09/More-Hash-Function-Tests/
Not meant to steal your thread, but any advice on picking up good contract work? I'm in the exact opposite situation you're in.
Heads up: Audio on page. Neat, but loud.

Text-only mirror: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c94cadade3a8b87dcdc52c639f...
Great suggestion.

Buy a whiteboard and a rubber duck and practise away. Take a video of yourself, review and polish. 4-6 weeks should be more than enough. So then you could treat yourself to a vacation.
Additionally, I'd recommend "Introduction to Functional Programming" [0] by Erik Meijer.

Depending upon your areas of interest, you might also want to look into related open source projects and attempt to contribute. Chances are that you'll learn a fair bit in the process.

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programmi...
Or we could have native applications, for many flash use cases they were a better alternative.
> because it seems that you are under the impression

I made a hopeful hypothesis and I opposed immediately that human intelligence might just not be optimized for recognizing intelligence. It is optimized for other things, not to waste energy and because of that it recognizes indeed that to play go very well but nothing else is rather less intelligent.

You do make a strong point there, specialized computers are stronger than humans in a specific task, but we are talking about general intelligence. I have to admit, too, that I have a hard time getting the bigger picture and get confused to easily. I didn't read any of the literature that would rather well define the problem, as the OP put it, so the discussion is likely less informative.

In my opinion, the comparison is unequal, still, because the Computer used a ton more resources and memory. There aren't enough go professionals to put together and let their averaged opinion learn and play, consuming as much energy.
This can be solved by proportional punishments. Then just not breaking the law, and just breaking the law gives similar outcomes (nothing vs slap on wrist)
Now try recreating the Steins;Gate introduction in 8-bit pixel graphics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vRheJlpeE

(side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YH-1ljDDk )
I think it is very easy.
Your browser BLOCKS the server from delivering something. I think the term "blocking" is perfect here. :)
> putting laws in GIT or similar.

Tiny nitpick, it's git, not GIT :)
This is amazing. Just what I need to control my home rig while at work. What security protocols are in place at the moment? Encryption type and so on?
I was aware of generators in python, but I wasn't aware of the lazy lest comprehensions, which is very nice.

I agree list comprehensions in the simple form are easier for a newbie to recognize, but I also like the way map and filter make you think about your actions, and think they are clearer in the less trivial cases (as I mentioned above). I say "filter" because while I am completely familiar with that terminology, I accept that it's an unneeded departure from the common terminology for that task.
Actually (and ironically) digital television is markedly unlike the "evolution" web, because the switch in the US from NTSC-M to ATSC has allowed the same 6 MHz-wide channels to be used much more efficiently to fit more data.

In analog, we got our familiar NTSC picture with 525 scanlines, out of which 483 were the picture; 30/1001 times a second; displayed on a 4:3 screen we would now call this 480i.

Meanwhile, in over-the-air ATSC we have 19.4 Mbps and MPEG-2 to work with, which is enough for 1080i at very generous data rates, or using more compression, enough for additional subchannels at non-HD quality [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_subchannel#Technical_c...
The p-adic numbers can be equipped with a metric. The induced topology isn't Euclidean, but it's pretty tame compared to what you can see in a general topological space.
That's Mozilla's Shumway, a SWF player in Javascript.
Yes, I'm very familiar, although it has been quite a while. :)
If you want to harass people, there are already a ton of (public) ways to do it. I'm sure you could find one website the person doesn't know about if that's your goal.
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"there is only one way to do things in Python" is just vapid marketing.

It's not even that, the actual quote is "There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do things". The whole "there is only one way to do it" was a joke response to Perl's "There's more than one way to do it" motto.
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It seems he got his account back https://twitter.com/N
>>I wasn't comparing uptime needs of a hospital versus an airline, but their security needs.

Uptime needs are security needs too for various reasons. e.g. lack of uptime is just another way to get a Denial of Service attack.

edit: a typo
Hi there. Please delete my data from your "service". As a European, my data is subject to the EU's data protection directive as long as I'm acting as "Consumer".

You can chose to stay in Canada and I can't do anything but get a useless default judgement. Until you choose to travel to Europe, or to any country that has an extradition treaty with the EU, or CETA is implemented. But meanwhile I do get better-than-average interest :)
Imagine if you spent your whole life supporting some complex idea that is likely now to be BS. And you spread it.

I'm interested in the psychological aspects of identity.

I suggest a lot of them have not choice but to continue on believing their mythology. Their sense of self depends on it, and surely their funding does. And getting funding depends on strong sense of self.

Isn't it amazing that despite their good intentions, that so many of them are hustlers and shysters? I'm not making a direct moral comparison, but a pragmatic one ...

It would be nice to have some experiments that put String Theory to bed as well, though sadly, these are not even conceivable! The String Theorists careers are protected by the fact their theory cannot be unproven :)
Every GPS receiver has to calculate time dilation of satellites.
It was my second after Ton Loc's "Loc'ed after dark".

"3ft High and Rising" is timeless though and still sounds good today