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> The Bush/CIA enhanced interrogation program specifically defined torture

Yes, I'm very familiar with that attempt to circumvent the spirit of the law and the well-known definition of several words. John Yoo et al were very creative in their interpretations and new definitions.

> done at the highest levels

Which is why they need to be prosecuted.

> So while a lay person may use the word torture one way ("Listening to my wife prattle on about soap is torture")

You know that we aren't discussing that kind of metaphorical or hyperbolic use.

(side note: it might be a good idea to listen to one's wife instead of calling her interests "torture")

> Since torture is legally defined

Did you even read my list? You should really read the torture report because that "definition" doesn't match what was done by the CIA to their prisoners.

> no one participating in the enhanced interrogation was prosecuted for breaking this law

Yes, that's the problem. Is there any particular reason you don't want the criminals at the CIA to be prosecuted?

> extensively investigated

You mean the investigation that documented how the CIA tortured its prisoners? The one the CIA wanted to suppress?

> one can reasonably conclude no torture took place.

Even if we were to assume your delusional version of the facts, this is a fallacy. Not being prosecuted does not imply no crime took place, as prosecutors choose which cases to pursue. In reality, though, you seem to have a lot of conative dissonance that is causing you to rationalize what you wish the world was like with the contradictory facts of reality.

I strongly suggest actually reading the torture report, and doing more research on the topic, because the rest of the world doesn't really have problems with the definition of "torture". What the CIA did defiantly counts, and the people involve - all the way up to the people that issued the orders - need to be prosecuted for their crimes. History will not look kindly on us as a country that allows people to get away with barbaric acts like torture.
> Bees in China, as in the rest of the world, have suffered a catastrophic collapse in their numbers, due to pesticide use and land clearance.

Bees are dying at higher rates, but in the US there are actually more of them due to beekeepers working to compensate.
This title would benefit from using Warren's full name. I initially thought perhaps they meant Warren Buffet.
Brennan doesn't come out of that looking good. But other than that, yeah. The fact that torture was performed by staff with records of abuse is alarming - I assume they didn't throw them under the bus because having them talk would bring the whole lot down?
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Any development position that doesn't require me to touch Javascript, HTML or CSS (I hate frontend). I am merely a junior, but I do have 4 internships under my belt (Microsoft, Google) and I would say I am quite decent at programming. I am familiar with both low level software (I wrote some C and x86 asm at Microsoft) and high level software (Python and automation at Google), Linux, operating systems, distributed systems, algorithms and data structures, and most things you would expect a good CS graduate to know about.

I am Romanian, but I would say my English skills are quite good, so communication shouldn't constitute a problem. I applied to about 30 remote positions and didn't get any interviews. I'm going to leave my country soon for this reason (trying to get a job at Google atm).
Do those things really take up that much space?
The perf is generally comparable (each has optimizations the other does not, although gambit is a bit faster in the general case), but Chicken has really fast call/cc. Also, Gambit has a very small library collection, especially compared to Chicken's, which is among the best of all the schemes, Library-wise. Neither supports native threading, and Chicken isn't fully re-entrant, which can lead to some problems integrating some libraries. Both have excellent FFI, but Chicken's is a bit better, IMHO.
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Oh, I know. I make my customers give me their email addresses, too, and I'm happy to provide it. It just felt circular, that's all.
I was turned off by the non-conversational tone of his writing and didn't get beyond the first three or four paragraphs. The sentences are long and pausing constantly with unnecessary commas. This is exactly the kind of writing I am trying to get away from, so I'm not interested in taking advice from someone who does this.
Do we know how well those laws will be enforced? I've never understood how it's intellectually consistent to have strong labour protections and free trade with places that are grossly unequal with regards to those protections.
Pruning works for understanding sparse networks, but not for holographic networks, which can encode a much higher information density. Understanding a holographic network requires a large amount of effort, similar to determining the content of an optical holograph. You can try to develop a model, but if the information density is very high, it's no faster than observing the response to various inputs.

The problem becomes even more difficult if there is no clear distinctions between layers in the network, as in the brain.
I studied computer science and biology, and yea I agree with this statement.
My cs classes were full of guys, my biology classes were full of girls.
I remember when a bunch of biology friends found out I was also studying computer science. The comments ranged from "Why, you aren't autistic ?", "Good for you, I can't even imagine how boring it is", and "Yea makes sense, Asians are good at math".

It seemed pretty clear most people considered compsci pretty low on the social status hierarchy.
The quickest path is to be born into a rich family with connections.
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Hey, guess what? Just don't use metaclasses. At all, for anything. Done.

GvR called it "The Killing Joke" for a reason.

This is a clear case of "negative productivity": People are working "harder than a cat trying to bury a turd on a marble floor" to pee in my soup. It makes me grumpy.
Hacking Street Fighter: CPS2 Encryption in R2
What an excellent and integrated tour.
Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
If you're writing a compiler, you're going to want to explicitly manage closures and function pointers anyway.
This is not the best wording, but it's what I have for now: Label the top, left, bottom, and right edges of the square T, L, B, and R, respectively (so T and L are the ones which must be glued to each other, in suitable fashion). Cut the square down the \ diagonal; this produces two pieces: an L\B triangle and a T\R triangle. Mark the \ sides of these pieces as having to be ultimately glued to each other in the appropriate fashion, and now re-attach them in the way in which L and T are already indicated to be glued (in the process, flipping one of them over). Now one has the equivalent of the M diagram from before, and thus a Mobius strip.
> Research shows that willpower, like energy, is a finite resource.

This has recently been called into question as well, as the original study showing "ego depletion" failed replication.
I signed up for the game. But while waiting for my game getting started, I found this link for spectating and read the docs, and you know what, this is one of the least fun games one could design, imo. Otherwise they would show how it plays I guess, and everything. Look:

Let's compare to the game Risk. In Risk, when two armies fight, the outcome is randomized with dice rolls. Here the outcome is totally deterministic, the larger army always wins.

Another basic combat mechanics is Rock-Paper-Scissors (Age of Empires and many other strategy games used this mechanics). You could have three kinds of military units with their strengths and weaknesses. There is no such a thing here, you just have plain soldiers and workers.

The only potentially good thing about this game is the alliance part. Still it remains unclear does it really add anything to the game mechanics or not..
If I've followed you correctly, I don't think you get a cylinder.
I'm imagining a scenario where I want to back-port Python 3 code to work with Python 2 and now must take account of it relying on ordering (that's not guaranteed by Python 2 semantics.)

Also it's just bad design. Ordering is an additional constraint so I feel that it should require additional code ("OrderedDict" vs "dict"). It's a deep semantic change for what seems to me to be bullshit superficial justification.
Sorry to hear you're not getting much traction with those remote positions you've applied for. My advice would be to keep trying. Always Be Interviewing; it costs you time, but the reward is enormous. Good luck with Google; if it doesn't work out, here are some resources to use:

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

https://remotebase.io/

https://whereverjobs.com/

https://weworkremotely.com

https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote

https://www.wfh.io/

http://jobmote.com/
This is great! I like the straightforwardness of it.

I'm sure the user could find out the index values for each button on the controller, but I'd be tempted to include an enum for each button so simplify things for the user. It's certainly usable in its current form though.
This makes me so angry. People, don't talk to the police or FBI without a lawyer. Just shut up and say you are not answering their questions. If they give a sense of urgency, it's just a ploy they are using to pressure you. Remember, these people go to school to learn how to manipulate people and to lie really well (they call it a ruse so it sounds better than what it is).

Do not allow them to separate you from your children, especially disabled children, and question them alone. They are looking to boost their performance numbers so they can get a raise and a promotion. They do not care about you. They do not care about your children. They do not care about your life, or about how their actions might impact you or your children. They care about how many arrests they can make so they look good.
how often do people use first names like that?
This is a terrible argument, because it completely misunderstands what courage is. Courage is willingly putting yourself at risk in the service of some greater good.

When a grenade lands in a foxhole, and a soldier jumps on it to save everyone else in the hole, that is courage, because he didn't have to do that. He could have chosen to jump out of the hole and save himself, and nobody would blame him for that. But he puts his own self-interest behind the protection of his comrades, which makes his decision courageous.

Apple's decision to drop Flash was, in that light, a courageous decision. It was widely assumed that Flash support was something devices had to have, that leaving it off a device would hurt that device's prospects in the marketplace. Apple chose to voluntarily risk the sales of its products in order to serve a greater good, namely killing Flash and thus putting an end to a particular variety of terrible user experience. They didn't have to do that, but they did, and we all benefited.

Apple's decision to drop the headphone jack is completely different, because unlike dropping Flash, dropping the headphone jack aligns almost completely with their own self-interest. It cuts down on their bill of materials; makes assembling their devices less complicated; lets them make their devices smaller, which the market has consistently rewarded; and lets them sell new accessories at a premium markup to replace the old ones.

The only risk involved is that customers may not buy the iPhone if it lacks a headphone jack, but given that iPhones have always used proprietary connectors for other purposes (charging, data transfer) and that hasn't scared their customers away, that risk seems pretty small. And it's almost certainly outweighed by the bonanza of benefits described above.

This is why everyone was laughing at the "courage" line when they first dropped it. It's not courage to do what a cost-benefit analysis tells you to do. Courage is doing the opposite of what your cost-benefit analysis tells you to do, because to do otherwise would offend your principles.
Great article; her resentment and confusion, directed at her father, is something I can definitely relate to. Writing someone off, especially a manipulative parent, is difficult and not as easy as some may think.
I assume you're being sarcastic, why? Would you admit to violence against kids in writing if you didn't do it? There may be another side to this, but the guy didn't dispute and partially agreed that he was a violent child rapist.
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No, but it shows they are trying hard.
Or because people are like me - completely unable to work from home. I've been doing it for the past 6 months and it has totally destroyed my productivity. I've tried all the tricks, nothing helps. I'm just not fit to work remotely.
Or they could just flush this now and save all the trouble.
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> And, importantly for an ethics journal, the IJME seems to be operating pretty ethically. It doesn’t charge authors a fee to publish, and its articles are available online to everyone for free (the print edition carries a modest annual subscription fee).

I don't like paying for publication or for access, but I've always accepted, perhaps naïvely, that something like the former is literally the price of avoiding the latter, and never regarded it as unethical. How does the journal support itself? (At a quick skim, the article didn't seem to say.)
I wish I would have been smart enough to have read this book as a kid. Luckily it's never too late. This book was written in the late 1700's yet it's as relevant now as it was then. It should be required reading by all students.

We hear a lot of mythology about current politicians and their accomplishments but Franklin was the real deal. He was a self made man. Who started with little and he used what he had available to become one of the richest man of his time and one of the most respected founding fathers.

I regularly hear a lot of "I can't's." Read this book and learn how one man turned all his can't's to can's. It's well worth your time and it's free to add to its allure.

We often get trapped in to fantasies were we have special powers to accomplish great things. Franklin had no special powers yet he accomplished much. He started with a fraction of what most of us have available yet he's a true american hero.

If you don't want to read it here is a link to a youtube read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfulxLKypr8
Vote-swapping is now legal in the USA
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The Endless, And Expensive, Quest For Rare Objects
DHE was removed in Chrome starting from betal 53.x beta ( https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5128908798164992 ). So this broke TLS negotiation. Should be fixed. Thanks!
I suspect you will need really inexpensive gas chromatographs to make it widespread. These are really neat tools, and I wish their acquisition and maintenance was more in reach (a used Agilent is $3K USD and goes up rapidly from there, with a more common low-end price in the $5-7K USD range).
Although in-case anyone, like yourself, is unfamiliar with Ben Horowitz The Hard Things about Hard Things is perhaps one of the most interesting business books available.

I find it's applicability beyond just business makes it as fundamental as How to Win Friends and Influence People.

With that said, yah it is a little weird that on hackernews if I see Ben without an additional qualifier I presume Ben Horowitz
Combinator created a new model for funding
Could make IoT make sense after all, if each device come with their own switches across an open protocol rather than rely on proprietary apps.
I'm thinking about having a child, and possibly telecommuting. Did you run into any issues that might have been related to gender ?

I'm pretty sure I'm not planning to tell them I'm pregnant if I can avoid it.
I also find a Mobius strip, I made the same reasoning
Off the top of my head:

Drop the dogma. Stuff like "OOP is terrible" or "FP is terrible" or "JavaScript is terrible", etc. are not only wrong but they are destructive only to you. Nobody else cares that you hold this view, it just keeps you ignorant about that thing and holds back your skill set and career. If you take the time to actually learn how to use the thing in question properly, what the good parts of it are and how good things not only can be made with it but are being made with it you will be better for it. Even if at the end of that you still decide you don't want to use it yourself (which is totally valid, we all have our preferences) you will be better off. You will be take the view not that "X is terrible" but that "X is not my preferred way of doing Y."

Second, don't waste your time bullshitting with a bunch of people who don't know anything about anything and just want to be "right" all the time. Where "right" here is actually "agree with the trendy position", which right now is "FP is good, OOP is bad." Talk to professional developers who actually do the work you want to do, and learn from them what it is they do and how they do it. To be sure, some people who hold those silly views do work as developers, but I would argue they're not professional. A professional sees tools as tools and not as a substitute for a personality.

Bullshitting is a great thing to do to blow off steam, we can't code 24x7, but there's constructive chat and then there's a useless echo chamber full of nonsense (which IRC is really good at forming.)

Anyway, hope that helps. I used to talk like the stuff I see in this chat when I was younger, then I realized what I just said about those opinions only being harmful to myself and now I try to be more open minded.
3.2 liters of water a day is much less than 37 glasses of water. The article mentioned 3.2 liters.
You're getting downvoted, but this is more true than I cared to admit for most of my adult life. I've witnessed this first hand from newly minted billionaires to green CEOs: most of them had important connections in place to receive and amplify their goals. You could also examine the type of language and non-verbal values that are exchanged between investors and "rich kids". Sometimes it's like watching a father grooming a son.
It probably is just a Gaussian blur applied to a depth map. The halo artifacts on the colored spots are a bit bad; they could have chosen better examples. Then again, it's not bad for what essentially is a research prototype.

Since it's done in software, Apple could use a more uniform circle kernel instead of a Gaussian kernel to do a more authentic bokeh style.
sometimes work becomes work. I really enjoy providing control systems for hydro electric power plants, but when people change their minds and I have to re-do the same work, or if some equipment provided by another firm doesn't work properly and it eats up a bunch of my time it is a drag. Or I get burnt out after working 12 hour days for four months so that we don't get sued if the power plant isn't generating on time, and then I might have loads of work to do after to clean up the documentation and other parts of the contract so we can get paid the full amount, but man I just don't feel like working anymore, whereas if I'm doing a moderate amount every day with lots of time for exercise and socializing I really enjoy the same work.

edit: I should add that I work either on site at power plants or remotely from home
Obviously that's how it is right now. I am arguing against the current state of affairs.
Having just visited Monet's house at Giverny last week this book would make an interesting read. The garden was amazing. Although it's difficult to feel the serene cosmos that Monet had intended. The tourists and roads around the house make it hard to experience the quiet. I was taken by the kitchen at the house and reading the review of the book understand why.
It does say. Small staff of 1.5 people paid by philanthropist...
Police in England and Wales consider making misogyny a hate crime
unless some paperwork requires a c-level title to authorize, we call our co-founders 'principals'. everyone still has an executive role.

this is slightly different than 'managing director' which seems to be favored by east coast firms or within business units of larger firms but is basically the same idea.
Some research shows for women, the prettier you are the easier it is to get ahead maybe the halo effect ?
For men there is research that shows the taller you are, the more money you get.

The stuff you mentioned should probably be a separate conversion, but I do think there is probably overlap with the gender issue.

Its not about just technical ability, but social and economic power through jobs.
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> Two sides of the same coin?

> b.) Immigrants in prison are good, because they do work for less then minimum wage.

I think that (b) doesn't really respond to the argument. Those who worry that "the immigrants are taking our jobs" are worried precisely that immigrants will do 'our jobs' for less than we would, making it likely that an employer will hire them instead. The situation being described is precisely one where prisoners will do work for free, as a result of which no non-prisoner members of the community has a chance of being paid to do that work.
Ah, thanks. In that case, it's hard to see what lessons should be drawn by other journals, other than "try to win the favour of a rich donor". (Even "have a small staff" doesn't seem useful, given the near-0 incoming funds from publishing, until the rich donor is attracted.)

To be clear, I don't mean to knock this journal! It is good to see the response to sufficient funding being ethical behaviour, rather than more money grubbing.
Presumably RadPad owes this user their rent money since they didn't pay it. If the company goes into bankruptcy, what's the "seniority" of this type of debt?

It seems like if enough people are affected by this it might be a very nasty class action lawsuit for RadPad.
"37" was hyperbole.

3.2 liters of water (on top of all the water we already get from prepared foods, coffee, soda, etc) is still a _crazy_ amount of extra water.
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For anyone who has used this, how does it compare to the PyCharm debugger? I've found the latter to be an awesomely powerful tool, but I'm in the market for something smaller that doesn't come bundled with a full IDE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_map
Another way to get to this, with perhaps wrong reasoning:

1. Deform the figure until the non-arrowed edges are a disc, and the arrowed edges are next to one another, so you have something like a Pac man figure where the arrowed edges are the mouth.

2. This figure clearly has 1 edge (the outer edge) but only 1 side -- to get to the 'back' side, go through the mouth

Since all the matters topologically is number of edges and sides, this is identical to a Mobius strip.
Anyone who is using RadPad would become a creditor, but if there's no money and no assets left, they're SOL.

EDIT: This is not to say RadPad is having financial issues, just a "what if" scenario.
I'm not saying the argument should be ignorance, rather that it should be lack of causality. The user has to specifically configure their system to turn these magnet IDs into a piracy opportunity. Or they have to copy each one into their torrent client of choice. Just like if I review an illegal drug and tell everyone exactly what it is so you can get the right thing from your supplier... I'm still not your supplier, I don't know who you are or where you go to buy such things. I'm not in the drug trade.

I'm sure I can find plenty of 5 star weed reviews that nobody would call illegal, even though they're calling out specific brands in a way that someone could trivially turn into a purchase.