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>As the saying goes, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", and it's pertinent it came from the POTUS because if I'm not mistaken, the United States Declaration of Independence is, technically, an act of treason and terrorism against the Crown.

No, a terrorist is a terrorist.
What ISIS and many other terrorist organizations do in the world are is terrorism, crucify, behead and stone people is terrorism, shooting up nightclubs and blowing up restaurants is terrorism, relativism has no place here.
If you ask why Nelson Mandela was on the terrorism watch list well like it or not it was deserved, Mandela wasn't Gandhi (in fact even Gandhi wasn't Gandhi) he had blood on his hands and he supported both political and violent protest of the apartheid regime. Understanding the cause of certain acts does not equate to relativism, support, or acceptance of the reasoning behind them and the people who perpetrated them.

As for your experience I would assume from your name that you are Algerian fits both the name and the overall background of the story of a civil war with heavy involvement islamic terrorist organizations.
And while I sympathize with your experience I don't think you have the whole picture either, while you did made some points against basically "arm chair generals" you also fall into the same logical fallacy, living through a conflict rarely provides you with considerable insight into the local and global geopolitics of it.

The Algerian civil war (which technically is still going on to some extent even tho it's even blow LIC signatures currently) was a messy one, there weren't sides, the islamic organizations fought each other as much as they fought the government.
Overall the civil war was a good examples of the risks of throwing elections into the pits of new democracies especially those which have large portions of the population with antithetical views to democracy and towards of the ruling party.

As far as the false flag operations I would not go so far and claim that with certainty, Algeria is a case study for many intelligence and military organizations in the world and I've had to study it quite well during my military service.

There were pretty nasty things that have been committed by all sides and plenty of things that you can describe as terrorism both by the "pro-government/socialist/centric" (e.g. the YFA) forces and by the islamic organizations.

But not every bloody act was an act of terrorism, and more importantly when terrorism is evaluated the intent is important, when bomb dropped from a jet drops hits a market by accident that isn't terrorism even if the initial result is the same as driving a mini-van filled with nitrite and gasoline into the same market, the intent behind the act and how you capitalize on are important for making a distinction.
Terrorism has a definition which is the use of violence and fear in order to further your political goals, and often unlike it is being described it's not a tool of last resort but the first thing you grab when the situation doesn't go your way.
I haven't tried it personally, but after playing with the Godot Engine's 3D capabilities, I wonder how well its 2D fares.
The way you talk about it exactly mirrors my experience. I have ADD as well, and I take Adderal-XR. Without it I'm scattered, "double back" on my thoughts a lot, can't focus, and generally have no motivation.

With it I'm a different person. I can focus, I can finish a thought process, I'm motivated, things become clear. I can actually "keep up" with others in "normal life", and it makes me a great programmer.

It really does feel like the magic pill from limitless.

Now, I tried alternatives when I was younger, and none really worked that well. Vyvanse put me to sleep, concerta (sp?) Didn't work at all. adderal-xr worked, but the "come down" sucks, it ruins my appetite, and its almost impossible to get around here (every place never has it).

I'm afraid to start trying others as I feel entirely useless without my medicine, and I know that because of the legal issues around these drugs, trying one out but keeping my backup of my old medicine is not going to fly. So I just deal with it.
That was a nice insight into another culture. The typical American response would be to decry how unethical it was (could it have influenced Alibaba's decision to fire them?). They got offered a job through WeChat -- that's as Chinese as it gets :)
You shouldn't need to compromise your basic values to write software.

A free operating system may be your only concern; it isn't everyones. To have other priorities is not childish.
If they hate consumerism so much, why are they using Apple products and product pictures as a click bait hook?

I buy these products because they are the tools I use to earn my living. The EarPods are just another accessory that may or may not make sense to you.
I'm currently taking this course for the second time. The first time I enrolled I didn't get around to watching any of the lectures. Luckily, I ran across a reminder email from the course and it just so happened that I had enough free time to re-enroll and complete the first week's lectures. It's really difficult to feel invested when the cost to sign-up is $0. They do try to create a community around the course, but it's so distributed that I wouldn't consider it a cohort in the traditional sense.
I really don't get these lawsuits. To me it looks like a bag holder suing the bag.

- A is lucky or has insider knowledge and sells to B who is unlucky, ignorant or duped.

- C are other shareholders now having traded

If company i.e. the bag has to pay out B then

- A got lucky

- B got put neutral

- C i.e. a neutral third party investor is coughing up the money

Makes no sense but keeps the courts busy.
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That is the "Heckler's Veto". The notion that if an action leads to a hostile response, then that action is to blame.
For example, in a civil rights march in the deep south in the 60's, police tried to argue it's the marchers fault if people riot.

Yes - had the first message not been sent everyone would have been better off. That does not mean that the initial message bears the blame for what happened.
The idea of posting it on hacker news is to make sure that if we can't do it someone else (better) can. There is a market. There is big money to be made. Banks are more receptive of startups than they've ever been. It'd be a shame to see this opportunity pass by.

Further we're not building a new bank. We're proposing to use the existing systems available, in any international bank today ,in a new way.

Simple was a challenger. We want to collaborate. Hacker news might just be the rabbit's foot!
Does your diet include chicken or turkey? It seems a large number of people who claim to love birds overlook this... your perspective would be interesting.
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I'd still love to feature you and Office Snapshots on https://IndieHackers.com, Steve!
Word to the wise... anything that you comment here could be used to end your career today or 5 years later when someone discovers this thread. Please choose your words carefully.
Possibly a dist-upgrade instead of an upgrade, but generally: Yes.
Here's the payout:

> This installation was completed in 2007 - and has been adequate to maintain the indoor temperature above 65°F/18°C since that time – even though outdoor temperatures in winter dropped below -20°F/-29°C and even though the nine-foot by nine-foot overhead door has been opened every morning and every evening.

> Before the end of 2009 the panels had saved more than their purchase price in fuel costs and the owner expects that the future savings will exceed the original cost of the entire structure. He told me he really likes starting every day (checking his livestock) in a nice warm truck.
For an article about how revolutionary these brooms are it would have been helpful for a description of how they can be used to vastly improve a bad throw. Or do some weird turns. Maybe a video even.
I agree. Another option is to research which printers can trivially have their bullshit disabled. I bought a $30 printer about 5 years ago that I refill with bottles of toner for $2. The 'modding' involved a piece of tape over sensor.
I did try reaching out to some employees on LinkedIn. While I saw some profile views none actually replied back. I'm sure there has to be a team at Instagram who handles this stuff but finding / contacting them has been incredibly difficult. Starting to run out of ideas and the exploit is still active.
I actually built a similar system as an experiment, basically a 1 x 2 x ¼ meters (multi-layered) cardboard box painted all black inside and covered with a sheet of transparent plastic on one of the larger sides. It was really cheap, around $10-15 in materials. Then I added two holes (in and out), and put some cheap flexible air duct hoses with some old CPU fan, which was another $8. On a sunny day it heats up the air incredibly well, where it actually could be beneficial during the winter season.

Unfortunately there are big problems that I encountered that I couldn't solve cheaply.

1) Mounted on the roof, it has to be sturdy enough to resist heavy rains and strong winds. We get winter windstorms, and one winter it got up to 55 knots with 70 knot gusts. I have no idea how to cheaply mount this box on the roof so it doesn't fly off and kill someone.

2) Intake and exhaust hoses would have to go either through the walls or through the windows. And since I don't own the house, my only real option would be to cut circular holes in the windows, and then replace the glass when we move out. Again, not cheap.

3) For the winter months I would have to also insulate these hoses, or they would lose most of the heat on the way to the house.

EDIT:

I also think if you don't care about what your house looks like, you can either paint it black or wrap it in black plastic.
As someone hearing about this only now, what actually happened? I find it extremely difficult to believe that the FSF fired anyone based on any one trait. This post says that the trans person "stood up for themselves", and because of the ambiguity, this makes me think that it might not have been as simple as all that.
HP calculators are awesome and more rugged than TI's.
For the impatient, the author of the course has a nice handout with 10 tips for good and bad studying: http://www.barbaraoakley.com/pdf/10rulesofstudying.pdf
Yes, a 4 hour seminar on study skills is more of a supplement than a unit of progress toward mastering a subject. So? It fills an import gap for students who didn't learn study skills in traditional school.

Sure, "Most popular MOOC" is a gimmick -- CGPGrey or Veritasium could claim that any of their YouTube videos are the most popular MOOC.

To really evaluate this course, they should compare students who take this course plus other, vs students who only take others. (Which has blindness problems, but it's a start)
> Other organizations exist to deal with those issues

For the alleged issue of someone being fired due to being transgender, I fail to see how other organizations can deal with her being fired from the FSF. Do you suggest transgender people should only work for organizations promoting transgender rights, who can "deal with their issues"?

Also, please consider that if all organizations and communities behaved as you suggest, then just as the FSF might not organizationally care about transgender rights, every other organization in the world might not care about free software. As a free software supporter, do you really want that?

* Obligatory disclaimer: this comment is not intended to imply any factual assessment of the various claims about the firing.
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you...
It's the same author. Probably misunderstanding about redistribution etc. Shoddy work but dmca is stupid.
Thats bad analogy. I could easily just sip three times every time and have empty bottle. If that bottle was cheaper than regular bottle, then sure.
Yes I am sure everyone indulges nihilism for a week when they realize our cultural mythologies of fixed morality, final judgement and eternal rewards are replaced by the inevitability of human life and indeed our entire planet disappearing...but anyone rational, especially "gifted", compartmentalizes it and moves on. But if you want to believe you are "gifted" because you read some Nietzsche, we can't stop you.

I would offer that such faux-crises are the result of a lack of scarcity, not intellectual capacity. No one who has to hunt for lunch has time to ponder the inevitable death of the sun.

We're just bored and tired. We rejected intangible cultural myths like religion and replaced them with vapid consumerism...now we're blue...boohoo. Maybe a nice war would help.
I remember doing something similar except it was with my cable provider, when they first came into town.

Since all clients would basically be connected to a LAN, as soon as I found I could port scan random users I started doing it.

Of course there were a lot of businesses on the network that apparently used FTP to move files around but were unsecured.

I spent the better part of a couple of weeks just going through the data (never actually downloaded anything since I knew it could land me in trouble with my parents).

Like you said, I also cherish this story since it was a rare peak at other peoples lives... without even knowing a 12 year old had access to all their business files.
There is now a crypto currency that works with BOINC. Here is the website: http://www.gridcoin.us/
Annual inflation is 4% at the moment.
But the libreboot post says the same, the staff person was let go because of standing up against bullying, the gender doesn't matter directly to the firing
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Ya, it's our fault for looking for a deal?

How can you guarantee that paying a couple hundred more upfront would save us all from this pre meditated corporate gluttony?

Stop buying printers from companies that build in mechanisms to purposely brick them. Buying a high-end HP is just as risky in my opinion, based on this story.

Cannon is another company to avoid. They just settled a similar potential class action:
http://www.therecycler.com/posts/canon-faces-class-actions-o...
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This. It would have been perfect opportunity to pitch their product but decided to make a fiasco put of it. I'm surprised they didn't start serving dick pictures to Al Jazeera from their server to get even more attention and 'new customers' .
BOINC itself is the white-label open-source[1] tech that other projects use, including SETI@home. I participate in IBM's World Community Grid[2] project, which uses the BOINC client. (it's running on my home machines, including some old/spare Android devices)

The IBM project is definitely active — their homepage currently says there are 721k volunteers participating, and there's a monthly email newsletter that covers their sub-projects' progress.

For an example of a current project, see OpenZika[3].

I see projects like BOINC and Jason Scott's ArchiveTeam Warrior[4] as a sort of "botnet for good" — if you have some bandwidth + margin in your monthly electricity budget, why not? I'm essentially spending a bit of electricity each month to help contribute to (and be a participant in) these projects. Their marketing must be working, because it "feels good" to be a part of them. :)

I don't know enough about CPU use + electrical costs to truly gauge the impact of my devices, e.g. vs. spending the same amount of $ on a fast, modern server running on clean power in an Icelandic datacenter. But having an old laptop or two + a few old Android devices running 24x7 hasn't noticeably appeared on my monthly PG&E bill.

[1] https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

[2] https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action

[3] https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/zika/overview.do

[4] http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warri...
When a recruiter contacts you, be friendly, and tell them a high number for your desired salary (I suggest starting at $200k). Soon you will get a feel for what they are willing to go for, and sometimes they will even tell you directly what their maximum is. FWIW Right now in Silicon Valley, $170k seems to be the max for senior devs, and $200k is actually reachable for managing tech leads.
I really hope that this is not the spark that will shatter the free software movement into bickering about politics.
Illegal copies of software (e.g. Photoshop)? I wonder how do they know that - do pirated versions leave fingerprints in your graphic assets?

I know for example that typography companies or stock photo agencies crawl the web seeking for unlicensed use for their .woff files or pictures.

(I'm just curious, I have a CC subscription)
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I'm really shocked how many people here are blaming the victim here...
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I use an extension called stylish, where you can pretty much inject your own css handlers for each website. I know its a bit tough to deal with but maybe someone can make a list which people can subscribe to just like the ad-blocking lists (eg. easylist).
You think sharing honest information to help people is worse than lying for profit?
Newspapers used to do this and it was wildly popular, but very labor intensive.
Yep. Experiments in "rationality" and "irrationality" usually seem to rely on the experimenter rigging up an experimentally normative behavior (a "right answer") which differs, often dramatically, from the ecologically normative behavior (the correct way to act in the subjects' everyday lives). The experimenter then gets to publish an "interesting" paper showing that very clever people behave "wrongly" because they didn't leap to what were actually quite improbable interpretations of events (if you hadn't seen the experiment before).

It makes it sound a lot like the Hollow-Face Illusion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion), which we are subject to precisely because our expectations accurately reflect normal life.

We need more experiments on rationality in which the "irrational" behavior is guaranteed not to be Bayes-optimal when given a previous human life.
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What's with corporate's fascination with RHEL/CentOS?

It seems like it always makes users' lives harder since so much software is targeted at Ubuntu first.
With such little information out there at the present I don't believe there is any point to discussion right now. With just unverified speculation, people are resorting to their imagination for any explanation which is never a good idea.
Interesting website with the potential to present a lot of information nicely, but I do not see the "simple" part of it. Everything about the UI and even the stat displays seems confusing to me. Why do I have a 0% compatibility rating with all of my local representatives, who I actually sort of like? I am sure I am misinterpreting these things, but there is no context. Mouse-over explanations for every single datum? Simple to me means about 1/3 as complicated as the site currently is.

Another problem is bill names tells us nothing about what is actually in the bill. How about sorting them based on who sponsored and voted for them? Then we can see highly partisan bills and bills that actually cross the aisle a little. That'd be interesting.

Anyway, I hope some of that is useful. Overall though it is a great "Show HN" site.
Wise words. Like anything having to do with identity, this issue is radioactive. It's become very difficult to criticize members of certain groups, because a vocal minority of people will invariably attribute your criticism to your crypto-hatred of the group to which the subject of your criticism belongs, then attempt to ruin your career over the perceived "hate".
1 & 2. Got it. Thanks. It makes sense to extend a platform, from the user's perspective, for her own usage, right.

That's what was not obvious to me, at all (speaking from a platform developer POV).

Seen as that, yes, that looks like a very nice thing to have.
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There's a setting to tell your printer to not obnoxiously use color inks to print blacks.
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Apparently not everyone concludes that morality is unfixed, etc., because not every adult has concluded that God is fictional.
Well, given the rise of contributor covanents and several people throwing around identity politics on technical mailing lists, it definitely looks like it's happening already. But I highly doubt that the free software movement will shatter. There have been bigger threats to software freedom, and the community has overcome them too.
Not sure it's fair calling it a myth because the Daily Mail et al don't understand it. They have a long history of misunderstanding.

What does surprise me is the various images we've seen of beaches, knee deep in often exported first world garbage, in the developing world. Surprise as they have never been the trigger for us to do something concrete to response.
I'm not a legal expert, but I want to believe that there is some law preventing manufacturers from sabotaging their own products in order to extract more coin from your consumers.

I want to believe...
Hmm I disagree with point number 7 under 10 Rules of Bad Studying

> 7. Neglecting to read the textbook before you start working problems.

I think it's a perfectly valid approach. I found that trying to solve the problems first helped me form questions which I would then seek to answer by reading the text. Of course then I would go back to the problems and try to solve them again. Rinse and repeat until I could solve them with confidence.
Most of the time you will hear this community downplay the importance of post-graduate work in finding success in tech. This is true. You, by no means, need a master degree to have a successful career, monetarily speaking, in tech. However, If you want to work on problems beyond consumer applications or B2B crud, working on serious technical problems (machine learning, compilers, OSes, embedded, etc), then a Masters will certainly help. Do you need it? Probably not, but it isn't the resounding "No" that you hear when asking about success in startups or the middle-ware teams of the big four.
Maybe it's just me, but in these cases when I encounter some weird behavior in a language I assume that I don't know enough of the language. It's actually not the designers fault that they are there, but my knowledge that requires more info.
SSD is probably not as fast as RAM, but it's much much cheaper, in the order of 10x per gigabyte. With SSD-GPU bridge you can have fast access to a multiple TiB training set, on a single machine.

Data pre-processing is indeed an issue, but hue adjustment/flipping/cropping could be implemented as Tensorflow operations, on the GPU. Similarly with input decompression - it would either have to be done on GPU, or the data would have to be stored uncompressed.