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Could Russia Really Shoot Down an F-22, F-35 or B-2 Stealth Bomber in Syria?
If a product manager has the skills and ability to do a good job but a team member is refusing to work with them due to their age, marital situation, whether they have children, etc, then the problem isn't the manager. If I was responsible for that team I'd seriously consider removing that team member.
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Vegan+recipes
Social engineering the US folks by Indian call centers posing as US taxmen
I think that regardless of the touchy subject, the question of the author is fair as stated in the article:

"Is there a limit on how many different places can be searched under a single warrant while still satisfying the requirement that the warrant describe the “place to be searched”? Can a single warrant justify a search of thousands or even (hypothetically) millions of computers, all used by different people who don’t know each other? At what point does the use of a single warrant to search many places make the warrant a general warrant that the Fourth Amendment prohibits?"
>Do you really equate sleeping with HR to getting noticed by delivering donuts to executives?

No, there is a huge difference.

But why does the line lay at donuts? Who decides which rules matter? How about cash instead of donuts? How about fake references? Is that brilliant or wrong?

There are quite a few successful people who are far more than just naughty, I believe one is successful enough to be running for president. The slightly naughty have far less room to criticize outrageous behavior if their line is ever shifting and coincidentally always just beyond their own acts.

Any human system requires good intent and fair play to function. Any such system can be gamed by a small number of players. Those players will usually come out ahead with little harm to that system. If the number gets large then then any system will begin to break down. So is the goal to keep the number of rule breakers small and make sure we are always in that group?

And if the hiring process is broken, fix it. Encouraging ludicrous ad hoc random non-sense is the exact opposite of fixing anything.

What is being suggested is that there are some unwritten ever changing rules know only to the initiated that are the real rules. The official published rules are for "the other" and frankly only exist exactly to keep out the uninitiated.
The internal security agencies of repressive governments are very good in general at collecting people's secrets for use as weapons. There's no potential for harm that I can see in destroying such information, and considerable potential for harm in recovering it.
Hi.

Some info:

- Client is written in Ć programming language and can be transcompiled to many languages. Yet it's still a C# project that runs in Visual Studio. See https://github.com/marioclone/Mario and http://smb.neocities.org/game.html for example how it works.

- Game is currently being made into a commercial product by a big company. It looks beautiful. There is a whole team working on it, including many artists.
Can you point me to any actual Fiqh which presents the possibility of choice of "which passages to believe" in Islamic scholarship? I'm really not aware of it, only the opposite, and for that there's enough quotes in any Fiqh:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiqh

Jihad as the actual physical fight is also a part of every fiqh.

Excluding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmadiyya that are around 1% of all believers and actually not accepted by the rest.
Yes, there's definitely a script at work.

Compare these timestamps (hover over date): https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dwaxe%20eff&sort=byPopularity&...
To the RSS feed: https://www.eff.org/rss/updates.xml

Humans don't post everything from an RSS feed within 10 minutes!
It is much less imortant than it sounds.

This was passed in the Bundesrat, and Gizmodo claiming it to be "the country’s top legislative body" is highly confusing.

Our parliament is called Bundestag. That's where virtually all legislation starts and is passed.

The Bundesrat is the council where the federal states are represented. It may start certain legislative measures, and it must approve some legislation (this ban of ICEs would probably be such a Bundesrat approval required law), but it is a minor player in Germany's legislation.

All the political action happens in the Bundestag which hasn't even debated it, yet.

And IMO it is doubtful that it will.
Other European countries are moving in the same direction.

The Netherlands is the one in which such a law seems likelier to be passed, also because of significantly less lobbying from the car industry (no major manufacturers, as opposed to Germany with Volkswagen, the second largest in the world).

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/neth...
The roads will not be much quieter. At 35km/h the rolling noise of the tires is louder than a modern combustion engine. In Germany a lot of new roads are paved with so called "whisper pavement" that reduces this noise but it will take decades until all roads are paved that way and on very buys roads it will not have much of an impact.
It's made completely by contributors in their own time.

It's also much harder to create a sketch than simply record yourself signing.

And sketched signs are pretty much useless for everything except finger spelling
What is Ć (C with an accent mark) ?
http://cito.sourceforge.net/
Is that how MFT works? Well then good.
Young People Speak Out about the 2016 Campaign and Their Economic Futures [pdf]
I heard robots float on water
When you're the first in your family to go to college, and that for your entire life your reality was mom and older brother working multiple jobs to feed 3 generations under the same roof and yet you still went hungry at the end of the month and regularly got the power cut, well yes you don't perceive taking risks the same way as Paul Graham does.

If you want to come to our workshops and talk to these young adults about how to frame and perceive risk, please do get in touch.
> Why doesn't it get used more?

Few people know it, even fewer people like it. It tends to be taught really badly. There are not many recent books, and the old ones teach an outdated pre-ISO-standard language and tend to overemphasize use of the cut (!) operator. Practical aspects needed to build "real-world" systems are almost never discussed. (Interfacing with the operating system in various ways, exceptions and other ways of robust error handling, judicious use of mutable data structures when needed, debugging, profiling, optimization, ...)

But yes, if you get over all these hurdles, it's useful for many things.

> And can you interface to it using Python or some more mainstream languages?

Yes, but you might have to go through foreign function interfaces that are painful from both ends. Or, depending on circumstances, you can just use text files (or pipes) to communicate with an external program written in the other language.
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It's bound to happen sooner or later. Banning ICE seems like overreaching, a more sensible approach is just making sure fuel taxes for those cars are high enough that buying one isn't economically sensible. Even today that might be as low as 2-3€/liter.
I think he meant Protestantism in particular.
This is fairly well-written, but I disagree with two points.

a) You might not know what you normally pay for groceries but I think most Americans have a rough sense of what they should pay for their items. Even if they don't know, it will eventually become easy to find out what the market price is (e.g. Google probably will have this).

b) Amazon's retail business can sustain higher margins than Costco because it can sell non-popular items. I agree that mainstream consumer retail items are sold at extremely low margins. But if you want to buy something more specific, the margins go up because your options to buy this item become limited. This is a large reason of why AMZN worked so hard to develop a reputation as the "everything store"
Chinese Construction Company 3D Prints an Entire Two-Story House On-Site
A beginner’s guide to websockets in Elm and Crystal
As a longtime MC user, I have to say this is really cool. OTOH, it doesn't have MC's amazing mod ecosystem, which is a huge part of why that game is so great.
I love good science fiction
From what I understand many twin studies have been done, and generally they indicate a much stronger genetic effect than is generally thought.

But because these kinds of findings are so sensitive and have a long history of being abused, there's a tendency to downplay them or at least avoid discussing them. Maybe even a (slight?) tendency to avoid further research.

But please correct me if I'm wrong. Most of my thoughts on the matter come from one of Steven Pinker's books and I've never done a thorough review on the subject.
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Not having children would make a far bigger environmental impact than both of those things. No tax breaks for that either.
I've used firewall rules in the past to scope the metadata store to admin users.
I find it extremely refreshing to wander around a new paradigm. After some webdev and even FP fatigue, logic variables really opened some perspectives on things. Actually, it felt like an extension of FP; imperative are memory -> memory, FP would be thought as one path of expression -> env -> expression through an evaluation graph walk; prolog is breadth search of the whole graph. It blends programs with space in an interesting way, it did alter my mind a fair amount.
Capitalism is failing
I've read the "PayPal" [1] section of the website (linked at the top as "Screw PayPal" and got the impression that its a work of individuals with childlike tantrum prone personality and not someone you'd do business with professionally.

Your description of the experience only nodded in the same direction.

[1] https://minifree.org/paypal/
Given that we now think that the brain flushes out waste products during sleep [0][1] and that lack of sleep is associated with all kinds of real problems [2][3] (both ideas supporting one another) "psychosomatic" really is something quite physical.

As an IT guy who has taken hundreds of hours of medical and several neuroscience courses I can't quite wrap my head around the idea of claiming something is "mental" or "psychological" and mean it as a closing statement. And "stress" is physical. If it was just and "idea" or abstract concept you would not feel anything. It only becomes "stress" when physical things happen inside of you.

[0] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-flus...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12153644

[2] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/04/46062060...

[3] http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/conseque...
It's the idea that is hard to come up with, not the implementation. I'd be surprised if anyoune would give you the answer you expect.
That's better than nothing, but runs into problems if you have different users who need to be able to access different subsets of the metadata store.
Well it is a shame to see the industry converging on believing the seemingly impossible based on secret evidence when presented by people who have every reason to lie (or build their own overconfidence) about their capabilities. When I worked in infosec the dominant opinion was that anyone with extrodinary claims should be ignored until they presented means of community verification, not just more salesmen who said they can do it too.
That seems unlikely. For one thing, Linus and all that would have been mentioned.
First: I don't think that such biases are OK, for numerous reasons.

On an intellectual basis, I can acknowledge, though, that high-affinity classifiers -- ones with a strong, clear, and generally readily determined distinguishing capacity -- are frequently used. Language, speech, religion, gender, dress, custom, and more. People are inherently clannish. You'll see this not only in tech hiring, but in ethnic conflicts: Iraq, schoolyards around the world, Nanking & Korea in WWII, Syria, prison populations, the Stanford Prison Experiment, Tunesia, the various ape species actors in the Planet of the Apes cafeteria, Columbia, Yemen, England vs. Ireland, England vs. Scotland, Flemish vs. Walloon, Basque vs. Spanish, various subreddits, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Israel-Palestine, and many, many more.

A principle problem of any seggregation regime is that it tends to require oppressive, often violent, occasionally genocidal enforcement to be sustained. Which is a key reason to seek integrated rather than segregated societies.

However that integration is going to have to be sustained against an apparently very-deeply ingrained resistance to doing so. And simply demanding conformance is likely to be at best only partially successful. The record of the US in that effort, well over 50 years after the Civil Rights movement, and over 150 years after the Civil War and just shy 150 years after the 14th amendment, illustrates this.

I'm not claiming homogeneous societies are better or preferable. I'm strongly suggesting they're easier to establish and sustain, and that they tend to self-organise as such.
It would never be retrospective. If you own a car made before a certain time in the UK, you don't even need to pass the basic safety tests. Stuff like this gets grandfathered in, and as long as the new supply is closed down, it'll sort itself out fine long term. No need for rapid change at huge cost to everyone.
All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a 15 dollar POMONA 5250 SOIC clip.
Oh no, the social justice warriors have invaded Microsoft!!!

(Double speak, meaningless sentences abound - that if you were to strip them from the article no meaning would be lost.)
Coal plants can run more efficiently though.
Last time I checked, it can be modded with Lua language. Easier than Minecraft which stills lacks an official API, but the community is smaller.
Not here in germany. Legislated but very happy.
Dont have to shiver in fear of trumpzilla because the holy st. market didnt bring those outsourced jobs back.
>> I think that it would be helpful if more prolog intros had a simple example that read a CSV file or JSON object or something, processed it using the defined rules, and output the results to text or HTML file.

You're right about that and I don't think it's a minor thing. One reason is that most tutorials have a hard enough time going through everything you need to know before you can start parsing json and writing out to file, without getting stuck in infinite recursion etc. so the nitty-gritty of day-to-day programming work is often left as an exercise for the reader.

On the other hand, I have the feeling that many people check out Prolog to see how it's different then go looking for the way to do the usual things in it. This may be the wrong approach. Prolog has some advanced features and those are "the whole point" about the language. If all you'll ever need to do is process some csv, there's probably no point in going through all the hard work to learn Prolog- you can do it in another language rather more easily.

That said, the Swi-Prolog homepage has a link to a good tutorial on creating web applications with it that I recommend to anyone interested in that sort of thing:

http://www.swi-prolog.org/

It's under the "Tutorials" header. Unfortunately my phone's ISP is blocking it so I can't link directly to it. Harumph.
Try coreboot, it supports more boards and is the actual upstream project. Libreboot is just a set of patches that removes support for boards that require Intel Management Engine and rips out microcode updates.
Minecraft never got an open source release or official mod support. Mods are made using libraries reverse engineered from the official game, then installed by patching the game. (This is made a bit easier than it would otherwise be because Minecraft is written in Java, but Mojang runs it thru a code obfuscator so unzipping the .jar shows a huge codebase with class and method names like "Ijf8". It's pretty gross.)

MineTest is open source and has modding support as a feature.
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"...C ABI is actually the OS ABI."

Can you please elaborate on it please?
...said a person who never learned calculus.
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These jobs are already gone. Most Europeans lines that assemble powertrains, transmissions, etc. are already robotized.

[Edited]
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I would disagree that it is about being rich or poor. If you take a look at the state of public infrastructure (roads, water, electricity, transport) in India, the amount of funds being spent do not match the quality. The only place where perhaps you can see the 'chalta hai' attitude not evident is where there are strong and enforced regulations. All of the rest is a little bit of shit all the time because of the chalta hai attitude and corruption.
Does not look like capitalism is failing or doing a really bad job:

https://ourworldindata.org/world-poverty/
Will the commercial version be open source?
No, GP is saying that instead of taxing carbon where people are free to choose how to minimize carbon emission (and how much to minimize), the proposal bans ICE engines.
Trucks and heavy vehicles are a small percentage (<3%) of all vehicles, at least in the U.S., and are far more efficient than cars. Banning ICEs in cars first would have a much bigger impact on both noise and pollution.
You're better off using coreboot, libreboot is just a set of patches removing non-libre boards and microcode support.
Charge circuitry can easily maintain a ±0.05V voltage tolerance if needed. For example, googling for datasheets found this charge controller IC with 1% tolerance: http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/datasheet/4050f.pdf

I'm no expert on battery chargers, but I can certainly imagine a design using that kind of tolerance if it made the batteries work better; holding that kind of tolerance is fairly cheap these days. Re: glitches, I'd imagine that a battery isn't going to care about extremely short duration events; preventing longer-duration overshoots isn't all that hard.
I did a LOGO programming course before having a computer, but we did have computers in the course. That did help.

One thing that did help me a lot when I didn't have computer or fast internet connection, were: the computing and programming paper magazines.

Maybe you can research for your friend programming magazines (on paper) which are available nowadays; and he can subscribe to them. Maybe he can even redistribute or perform as internal reseller once done with the chapters.

They use to treat diverse topics on monthly steps, and is a convenient way to assimilate knowledge. Ones are better than others and introduce less partial views... you must view on your own.

I can't help, because I'm many years without buying one.
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This matches part of the description of HomeJoy's failure[1]. Home service are relationship based so a middle man is only Uber-like for the first cleaning. After that the cut has to be smaller or the customer and pro will deal directly. Even that doesn't quite capture the additional complexity in matching pros with customers. The work is more qualitative and the pro needs jobs that are more similar in location, expectation and needed supplies. Homejoy was too much like uber to work.

Yes, they ran out of cash because CAC > LTV, but that's a bit like saying an AIDs patient died of the flu. There's an underlying cause.

[1] https://backchannel.com/why-homejoy-failed-bb0ab39d901a
Have a look at LG G5 too. Similarly priced -in Europe at least- with good quality and innovation (normal + wide angle camera, always on screen). Also it has features missing from the plus (sd card, aptx, removable battery).

I was on the market for a new device couple weeks ago and after an extensive search I went with the lg.
No. Maybe the server.
Down-voted. When we criticised Eich, there was so much noise that the only thing which matters is his technical merits. So how is the developer and his or her attitudes relevant now? Why the double standards?
>> Optimization also basically requires wresting control of the program counter back from the abstract system into explicit programmer control.

I'm unsure what this alludes to. Are you talking about minding tail-call optimisation? That's not a feature of Prolog only.

>> going multi-language can save a lot of programmer time compared to writing everything in $TRADITIONAL_LANGUAGE purely out of inertia

A better idea is to chuck out most of your stack and write most of your application in Prolog itself- no xml, no having to worry about Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch, and so on. You don't even need regular expressions, because writing a compiler in prolog with Definite Clause Grammars is a piece of cake (something that can't be said for any other language under the sun).

For instance, see "Can I replace a LAMP stack with Prolog?", here:

http://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/PrologLAMP.txt
Creating a SaaS that makes a couple grand a month is really easy. Extremely easy.

The problem here is that you want a "cool" idea. SaaS is inherently uncool. Its the antithesis to something "cool" like an Oculus. SaaS is soul crushingly boring.

The easiest lifestyle saas businesses go like "scrape this website, present the data, sign up people who think software is magic".

Then understand compounding. Google it right now and ponder on it for a couple hours. Understand that no matter how abysmal your growth may be, it will always end up at a pretty neat number that you can comfortably live on, after a couple months.

1k/month is 10 clients. Its impossible to not find 10 clients if write some software that is not complete ass. You don't need something cool. Just write anything that remotely adds value to someones business and tell them its 100 bucks. Then when they're signed up, ask them how to make it actually useful.
can't relate to that, there are as much attractive people as anywhere else, the only thing I encountered that much more hippies and feminist are around.
What makes him special?

Your lesson to help you better understand the world lies in the answer to that question.

What makes him special is knowing how to break the rules in ways that don't have too many negative repercussions. It's not easy, but if you can do it, it puts you ahead of the people who play by the rules.
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Using your leg room example, if it's inhibiting your potential range of motion whilst sitting then you are disabled.

To look at it a different way, isn't a person with healthy eyes as equally disabled as a blind person when they're in a completely dark room? The source of the disability is not as important as the outcome.
Hi all, I do a lot of work on Reproducible Builds within Debian (AMA...!).

Just wanted to mention we are now having regular IRC meetings:

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2...
In case anyone is turned off by the more experimental and non-musical aspects of Cage I'd like to point out he wrote some very pretty proto-minimalism also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2wtmQkvX7A