skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author states that NORAD "... dropped the ball on 9/11.."

Let's be clear, NORAD did not drop the ball on 9/11. You can certainly make the argument that the FBI, CIA, and NSA (and other US intelligence services) dropped the ball on 9/11, but NORAD did not. NORAD's primary goal has never been to stop terrorism/hijacking from occurring on passenger planes within the United States, but rather to warn of enemy planes and missiles from _entering_ the US. (this did change somewhat after 9/11, but that's after the fact...)

Frankly, I stopped reading the article after this line, because clearly the author doesn't know what they're talking about.

But if you're interested in this sort of thing, I'd recommend starting here: Strategic Air Command: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command

I just finished reading Command and Control by Eric Schlosser, it's a pretty decent primer on early US nuclear deterrence and such things as SAC and NORAD. (though there are better books specifically about SAC/NORAD, this is an overarching general/popular history.)
I believe the only native mammal in NZ is actually a fruit bat [0].

(although Wikipedia includes sea mammals, such as dolphins and sea-lions as well.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammals_of_New_Zealand
You could take a self-paced MOOC and master its contents in a month.
"Canadian salaries are a joke"

Yup.

It's due to a lot of reasons, but that will change if the talent is there.

It's particularly pernicious in Van where the cost of living is crazy, less so in Toronto.

I live in Montreal - and my flat would be 6500/month in San Francisco. It's really nice. The culture is great. Cost of living is peanuts. There are smart people, and 10x more cute girls than SF.

If you grew up in the cold and can hack that, then it's in many ways a great choice.

Also if you have a hookup at a good company because they are rare here.

Nobody can compete with SF for talent. Nobody - I would not imply that.

But depending on what you are doing - TO, Van and Montreal can make good choices. Again - very situationally dependent.
Is is possible to include some kind rich text/html editor that can send data back to a server via JSON? Is it possible to send any user data back to a server with Jasonette?
This comment really surprised me. I'm not in sales either but half my company operates a hundred percent on salesforce and I genuinely believe it's incredibly valuable. It's essentially like jira + GitHub for sales and marketing people.

And when your audience isn't capable of building their own tools that's all the more valuable especially if you want them to quickly ramp onto as they already know. Once they attained Total Domination, there blossomed a large amount of add-ons and consulting firms that specialize in implementing on their platform which locked in their network effect.

At the most basic level they just killed creating an opinionated ticketing system for the sales motion which is about as Mission critical as it gets to any B2B company's bottom line.
play playstation all day for 30 days
Czech republic
He doesn't say it explicitly. But what can I imagine when someone speaks of ethnic groups as if they followed some sort of inverse gravity law?
Its an opportunity to take something like an intro level college course over the summer while in middle school with gifted kids your own age. You need to qualify by taking the SAT and scoring above some threshold and you can only take courses for subjects you scored well in (a high math score doens't qualify you for the language arts courses). A huge number of prominent people in all fields went to CTY.

I went in 7th grade to take Algebra over 3 weeks. It was pretty fun and remember being sort of blown away at the final presentations by what other groups had accomplished in their time. My group was pretty boring and just did did problems out of a textbook...

Honestly, my biggest memories from that were spending time with other kids (namely girls), especially since this is like peak puberty age. Its also at an age where its easy to make friends living in a dorm for a month.

I went to a similar course studying abroad, and it wasn't nearly as good. I took an overview course on physics in high school. It wasn't a math based course, so it just devolved in to pop science. And it was at an older age where people are much more judgemental and I remember thinking I'd prefer avoiding a good number of people for various reasons. I never had that while at CTY.
> Why do you think the email field that shows up in git's log was put in place? Honest question.

to provide a unique identifier for the author of the commit, and a means for finding the public key you should use to check the signature.
How cold and long are your winters? Some of the Canadian winters go on for what seems like 5 months. I can handle 3 months...
Parents can only do so much. Legit special needs is special needs.

From what I have read blended classes with special needs helps those with special needs, at the expense of the gifted or well behaved.

Is the trade worth it? To you likely not. To the special needs families? I think so.
> In the United State[s] making financial sense is not sufficient

You follow this with three paragraphs, and yet none of them contains one word in support of this claim. What's standing in the way of people who want to do whatever is cheapest?
He invented an electronic messaging system that he called email.

But what he created is distinct and in no way related or had influence on the design or implementation of email we use today.

The history of email is documented in RFCs that date back to when this supposed 'inventor' was a toddler.
It's fine if you paint inside the lines. For quick CRUD stuff it was fine.

As soon as you need something that doesn't quite fit the limited palette, you need to go underneath and write PL/SQL.

Not as much fun.

In my experience, nothing stays pure CRUD forever.
It's hard to make any true statement when terms are defined by what they aren't, rather than by what they are.

For example, the term "SJW". What is an SJW? I can tell you what it isn't. It is not racist, not misogynistic, etc. But what is it actually defined as?

I've never been a fan of post-structuralism, or any postmodern philosophical theory, but as of late I've been drawn to Jean Baudrillard. At the very least, our political landscape itself has become a simulacra of true political thought, as evidenced by groups defining themselves by the nihil or negation, i.e. there is no Universe where the statement "I am a bigot" can be made true.
I wouldn't use NYU as the best example, as its tuition is ridiculously high compared to other medical schools / universities. Look at its access index: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/09/17/upshot/top-col...
Still feels several times faster than using an option like Vagrant. (haven't found a container that didn't cold start in less than 5 seconds; 3+ minutes for common Vagrant setup is pretty common)
Ya I just have a few memories of it. Sorry I can't help much... Thank you though.
I'd like to enrol in a culinary arts class to learn more about cooking! I think a month would be enough time to complete some courses at one of my local colleges.
But surely places like Alpharetta, Roswell, and Cumming are not decimated. I found them nice places to live although housing was getting into the mid 300K for a 4br/2ba. I found access to downtown easy and the airport was one of the best (in terms of global connectivity).
This is an absolutist view, while it is quite a compelling argument for certain extreme cases, I am afraid the world is never that black and white. Since we are talking about regulating/banning substances, let me try to point it out with a relevant example. While it might seem fair to say that if someone wants to ruin their own life by substance abuse, why should it be my (or the government's) responsibility to keep them from doing it. But, consider this, one of the growing problems right now in the US is opioid dependence and addiction. In these cases, these opioids are medication that is prescribed by doctors to treat acute pain. But, along with providing pain relief, this medication can cause opioid dependence and addiction over time. A sizable population of regular people who were just seeking treatment for their illness, unfortunately ended up with opioid addiction. This could just as easily happen to any of us or our loved ones. I can't speak for you but I would definitely want the government to step in, fund relevant research to study the problem, based on that perhaps regulate (or ban, if necessary) the availability and/or prescription of such medication because though it provides pain relief, it has unintended consequences that ruin lives of unsuspecting people.

Government regulation isn't necessarily always bad. There is no absolutist one-size-fits-all solution for all problems. Would I like the government to tell me what I can and cannot do, absolutely not. I would protest with you if I think government is overreaching. But, would I concede that there are certain issues (which might not affect me, but might affect lot of others) where the government has to intervene, of course, yes.
Trying to participate in NaNoWriMo right now.
> during the 90s the idea seemed to be that that the next step after the outsourcing was actually no programmers at all

Lest someone think this is an exaggeration, no, this was literally the conversation at the highest levels of some companies. A relative told me to reconsider going after a comp sci degree in 1995 because within ten years the computers would be programming themselves. There were presentations at their workplace about it.

My first "real" job was programming customizations hacked on top of a 4gl tool - injecting JavaScript into pages through an improperly sanitized <label> widget! After the whole application was rewritten in the 4gl tool, it never lived up to its promise.
I think Conversations is probably getting a lot right, but you also mention its biggest flaw:

> do multiple types of encryption including OTR and OMEMO

Oh and it can also do something else: no encryption at all.
That's the problem with XMPP: The user is faced with three different encryption modes, none of them is the default.

There shouldn't be multiple types of optional encryption. There should be one that works and is enabled by default.
Build Flask app for tracking using wifi beacons (backend)
Bitmain and Investors Announce 135 Megawatt State of the Art Bitcoin Data Center
thank me later: https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat
> if green politicians had put half the effort they put into forcing this issue at political level, into pushing the disposal industry to come up with better technological solutions to do that for me, they'd be heroes of the people

The disposal industry already has those solutions, because the error rate in individually-sorted trash is too high to work with. The point of having you sort your own trash is to make sure you're committed to the project, not to save effort for the disposal industry.
I've been reading the "primary" sources for stoicism, so Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, etc. the book the other commenter recommended is a good start and overview though.
Great dectective work. I suspect the IP is now a total mess - with luck nobody has been paying the patent renewal fees and everything is now free.
This is a beautiful gesture. Thank you for releasing this!
Corey Haines advises caution on the use of the term “pragmatic”
More coverage here:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161103/11502935958/heres...
This was my answer. It's one of the reasons I became a licensed HAM.
I wonder if you'd like the error handling chapter in the new book [1]; it started from a base of burntsushi's blog post but we did rearrange quite a bit. Option is in another chapter now.

[1] - http://rust-lang.github.io/book/ch09-00-error-handling.html
Ship and pay the rent!
I did a 1-day project Vue.js yesterday and I really enjoyed it. A lot of the ways they approach things make sense to me.
I'm curious to see what others think about your comment, notyourwork. To me (maybe only me!) it looks like you're putting a pithy stamp on what the GP said. Going a little farther, it looks to me like you're taking credit for what the GP said. I do not see the value of saying, "To sum all that in a nutshell: Collaborate." I see a value in what the GP said.

That said, this is the first time I've criticized this kind of comment. I've seen people pithily-sum-up others a lot. If others disagree with me, I'll take that into account.
I approve of this burn.
I live in São Paulo, Brazil. I would try to get to Ushuaia by car via Chile all the way down to the Tierra del Fuego.
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Although the masking effect may be useful, my immediate thought was how much extra code and buffer overflows had been added to the client. Android doesn't have any sandbox mechanism like pnacl to contain such code.
Stand a project up, running on autopilot, which will make a minimum of $5k/month profit, 100% on my own without the need for any major expense other than time/effort plus simple and cost effective infrastructure.
Which is kind of true if you can stick with the standard library and control which compiler gets used.

Back in those days, we were deploying code across heterogeneous OSes (not all POSIX), using the OS vendor provided compilers, which were still catching up with C++98, let alone C++03.

So this really restricts how much you can make use of the standard library and which third party libraries to use in a portable way.

Then is time for #ifdef party.
Have you looked at Node.js backend jobs? Maybe try and take a full stack job where you do both FE and backend and slowly transition to more backend work?

It worked for me. FE JS -> Fullstack JS -> Backend Node.js.
e2e could be enforced for the DHT clients if the user states they aren't going to be using SIP though, right?

Either way, I don't use SIP so that feature isn't a dealbreaker for me.
The bit on CETA was interesting. I was very disappointed when I heard CETA was signed last week because I strongly opposed the copyright term extension and anticircumvention clauses from the 2009 leaked draft. However, as far as I can tell, those are not in the final agreement. Opps.
If they had used a usb-c plug on the iPhone 7 there would be a lot of blow back when iPhone's port fried since people were using third party cables that weren't regulated. It doesn't matter if Apple tells them not to use it. Media will put the blame on Apple even though it's the manufacturer's responsibility. This is why they require lightning cables to be certified.

There are many more iPhone users than MacBook Pro users out there. My guess is there will still be some people bringing in fried ports to the Apple store, but it'll be a lot less than if they had released usb-c on the iPhone.

http://phandroid.com/2016/10/14/recommended-usb-c-chargers-f...

By the wrong cable, fry your phone.
>your argument certainly doesn't settle the matter one way or the othe

I consider the matter settled and don't wish to engage in dialogue around it. For me there is nothing to discuss and it is a waste of resources to do so. Obviously others could disagree with me.

>A simulation of pain might have enough fidelity that it would be reasonable to call it "real pain" that is felt by some actual entity with subjective experiences as real as our own, but it's far from a slam-dunk.

I consider this to be a slam-dunk, and the reason why is an inductive process of replacing one cell at a time with one that interfaces with the other cells the same way (as a black box) but simulates the inner workings of that individual cell rather than perform them biochemically: obviously consciousness does not occur within a single neuron or nerve cell, so that if we replace that neuron with a black box that has the same interface with other cells, but internally is a simulaion, then consciousness would cease. This is clearly not the case. Clearly if it has the same interface with the other cells then it will still have consciousness, and by a system of induction you can come to the infallible conclusion that it is possible to have a process of real pain that is entirely simulated.

It is like the inductive reasoning why it must be possible to build an artificial object that flies: if you replaced any single bone or ligament in a bird with a mechanical version with the same properties, it must still be able to fly, therefore an entirely mechanical object must be theoretically posisble which is capable of flight.

In practice flight isn't done this way, and no bird is copied on a muscular level to achieve flight. It just shows that it's certainly and irrefutably possible.

This inductive argument shows that it is irrefutably possible (for me). I consider it a slam-dunk case, beyond any need for discussion, yes.

One thing that you do not talk about in your comment is under the scenario where pain is simulated with enough fideily (on a neural level) to be actual pain, how this changes if the simulation is deterministic. In what sense is its calculation then a "process", since we do not have any influence over its outcome?

==> I do have a question for you: does the nonillionth prime exist in your opinion? Does it have a specific well-defined value?
Now I want to build a hot hydrogen balloon. Put some drone motors and rotors on it from control. Then one day land it near an open flame.
i get what you're saying in the sense that people often erroneously cry "First Amendment" when being censored by a private entity. But the legislating of libel is most definitely a First Amendment issue. That's is why the Supreme Court makes rulings on the standard of defamation, particularly in regard to public figures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan

The Sullivan case does not only apply to the critique of government officials. Jerry Falwell tried to sue Hustler for depicting him as an incestuous drunk; the Supreme Court ruled against him, 8-0.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Not sure I would qualify it as beautiful, but you're welcome regardless!
> Parents can only do so much. Legit special needs is special needs.

Agreed, to some extent. How far does society have to go in order to support children with <XYZ>? Is that "burden", for lack of a better word, society's problem? I don't think there is an easy answer.

> Is the trade worth it? To you likely not. To the special needs families? I think so.

Maybe, maybe not... I wish there were an easy answer. The fact is, I have a choice! If the situation doesn't suit my child, I will take action. My children are my responsibility. It is my duty to do the best I can for them.

There seems to be an attitude that people are "owed" the best of the best and special treatment at all levels. That doesn't square with me. So long as I have a choice, I will control what I can control (which isn't much, honestly)...
Push messaging is part of the base standard in Matrix now IIRC, or it will be in the near future.
s/government officials/public figures/ no? Or am I misunderstanding?
Though there is nothing I can say to change the tough years you endured, I would however like to say to you that the best years are yet to come. Look ahead my friend. There are many years ahead of you.

Rationally, I concede that, in theory, there's a possibility that they may be terrible but you have to concede that given your current levels of self-awareness and your ability to introspect, you have a lot of agency and things may turn out to be much better than those unpleasant years.

From the bottom of my heart, I wish you good luck.
I didn't say it metadata is irrelevant, I said that it is fundamentally different than the content of messages.

Trying to derive 'intent' from 'knowing who you talk to' is not possible with any degree of reliability. You can make some minor probabilistic inferences, but that's it.

The most important advantages of metatadata are establishing those engaging in criminal networks - which is very salient, in which case I think metadata is the right solution.

I have a distant family member (barely related) - who sells cocaine and is a grade A douche-bag/thug/criminal. He beats people. Proudly. I think he was caught because of this - the RCMP was able to establish his network and they took down him and his thug buddies. Guns, beatings, I think a murderer in there. I'm glad they finally got him.

500m from my flat in Montreal, there is a polytechnic school where 11 young men decided to join ISIS - they were caught just before getting on the plane - again, I think that the tech worked the right way here, but again, it's hard to be specific.

FYI - even 'socialist utopian paradises' usually have more aggressive policies than this. Sweden, for example, captures 100% of packets leaving/entering the country and look at all o it's contents - as just one example.

As a Canadian citizen, I have zero problems with CSIS thus far - there hasn't really been a single case of this information being abused in a manner that affected the lives of a citizen in a negative way. The lack of these cases of abuse is salient.

I'm far more concerned about 'other countries' surveillance programs, as a non-US citizen, the NSA is free to capture anything they want about me without really any oversight and that's a little too nefarious.

As an operational compromise, I would try to enact the following: CSIS can capture metadat long term, but then to actually access that data - they need a warrant from a judge.

This way - my idiot second cousin's rights are protected, but as soon as the RCMP catches a local thug and can access that thug's 'network' - with a warrant, it's shown that my dirtbag cousin's name comes up, with criminal intent easy to identify in ensuing investigation. Similarly with 'terrorism'. A local Imam contacts CSIS and says 'so and so in my congregation is asking about how to join ISIS' - then, with a warrant, CSIS can see who he's communicating with, and with further investigation, get a proper warrant for more information.

Somewhere in there, there is a solution, I think.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure this is only true if you are looking to compete with the megacorps, which probably isn't the case if you are a startup. It's called a non-compete, because it means you can't work for a competitor. Having to do with tech doesn't make you a competitor.
LipNet: end to end state of the art lip-reading model by Oxford and Deepmind
Make a plan to pivot my career for the next few years.
(Having read the Reddit thread for a while)

Macs don't appear to have support for containers which is what Docker is. Well that is probably bollocks because they are *BSD based and I know that FreeBSD at least has a form of containerization and I seem to recall that the whole container thing was invented on a BSD - "jails".

So Docker can't run native on iStuff. You have to run it within a Linux VM. I gave up on Googling for "apple mac jail" 8)

The reason why Docker runs slowly on Macs is because it is running under emulation within a VM.

Unfortunately, Macs are not cool enough to run Docker, so there 8)

Cheers
Jon
This is why some people still keep dial up accounts with a larger ISP around. I can imagine that even AOL might come in handy.
Land based fauna, there is pretty much nothing to worry about, other then maybe wild pigs. Couple of venomous spiders but they are fairly mild to humans anyway.

Sea based, the usual sharks, sting rays etc. But as most countries attacks are pretty rare.

Your far more likely to get into trouble by either falling, getting lost, or not having suitable gear with you.
All the best mate. Keep up the great work and good luck!
Where's the Stargate?
In New Zealand, sandflies might be somewhat irritating, and kea parrots might try to damage your car while you're tramping in the bushes.
For stoicism, The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday.
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