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> it's bizarre to see yourself "progressing humanity" while working on something completely opposite..

I'm very ambivalent about sites like the Silk Road, but I'm sure some people view them as progressing humanity.

If you see it as a platform that enables "evil" activities, like illegal gun purchases, then it might be regressing humanity.

Alternatively you can view Silk-Road-like websites as disrupting existing illegal markets by moving them from the street to the internet. This enables these services to be offered with less violence, more competition, better "regulation" (banning frauds, community checking quality etc.), etc. With the primary market apparently being drugs, it seems likely that these online platforms save more lives than they cost.

Then again, more readily available drugs likely decrease humanities overall productivity. Depending on what "progressing humanity" means to you, that's bad.

It's a complicated subject, but as far as startups go it has some very compelling arguments why it is progressing humanity (even though the counter arguments are surely not without merrit).
Yeah, it's a little weird and out of place. I thought it was a page about PWA Fundamentals.

You'd figure they would start off with an opening statement of what "Web Fundamentals" means exactly, instead of some random feature.
And MS Teams (soon) = Slack
I think that's exactly what "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" claims to teach. I've started it several times but I never stuck with it so I can't say if it works or not.
It's all kind of moot anyway if you are running hardware with blobs (Intel ME, for example). Getting truly to 100% is pretty far away, as frustrating as that is.
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One way is to propose something that's mathematically equivalent to existing theory. If you have no testable predictions then you're not really doing science. You're doing philosophy.

I'm not sure if that's the objection here. They might also be calling it too vague to be a theory, or something else.
It's a lot easier to get up to speed if you don't have to deal with cutting through a heavy chunk of atmosphere on the way up. Plus, rocket designs could vary, be less concerned about aerodynamics, if they were starting from a launch platform already in very thin air.

A wider, shorter rocket might work better in thin air, for example, but that would be impractical launching from sea-level as is tradition.
Thanks for that, it's a very interesting article. That's the type of thing we should be reading in the newspaper and sharing on Facebook and cordially discussing (as you and I are, I hope) so we can determine where we actually stand on this matter as a society.

Race relations are very complex, it involves (imho) deep-seated biological cruft leftover from years of evolution, racist teachings in the home (like many other people, I grew up in a home of so-called "racists"), etc. If we are going to live in non-segregated societies, we just have to work through this together. I think a lot of those numbers from your article are just going to keep going down over time, partially as older people die off, and otherwise just as people realize, from being physically near people of different cultures on a regular basis, that yes in fact they are different (contrary to what the media and various other busybodies tell us), but it's just fine the vast majority of the time. And, sometimes it isn't - there is nothing saying that the level of cultural harmony between various combinations of cultures must always equal the same value, it's a preposterous assertion.

I believe there are numerous paths one can take to reducing the various "isms" we have in our societies. OP has chosen the name and blame approach. I'm fine with that, provided it is based in fact. Is that a successful approach, we'll likely never know.

Here's another approach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhKMu8jrfw

In this case we do have a bit of insight into the reactions of the "host culture":

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/5im83w/when_we_let_...

Seems generally pretty positive! I'm going to try to remember to look into what the general opinion in the physical community where these dudes live is, but then how do you know people are telling the truth? That's the benefit of anonymous forums, at least people tend to be more honest.

I just thing we as a society are really not going about this in anywhere near an optimal manner, for no good reason.
Same here. Avoidance of regret.
I don't really see the irony. Humans are pack animals; love/tolerance is for the in-group, cruelty for the out-group. The only people I know who don't match that description are basically lacking an in-group.
Once you go full tin-foil hat, you want silicon level validation. And when you find out that isn't really viable, you realize that an open source driver that uses high-level silicon functions isn't all that different from a binary blob.
>you saw Tomb Raider not because Square Enix paid to be on the lock screen, but because Microsoft was trying to push that you can get AAA games in the Windows Store

I would still consider this to be an ad.
We need an update for this saying that is gender neutral or that reverses the sexes. It's a great saying, but it is deeply rooted in traditional gender roles to the max.
A counter example would be prostate cancer where it is estimated that at age 90, all men have it in one way or the other (mostly in association with BPH and harmless)
Thanks for the feedback. WiMAX does seem to be successful in some lower-tech countries, but I guess it depends partly on what else is available....
That is the account that I had read before. It only talks about Steve Russell's first implementation and makes it sound like a mechanical transform into reality of a theoretical implementation.

However Wikipedia says that there is a second, and the person that I was responding to indicated that Steve Russell had to create a garbage collector to make it work. Those are things that I had not previously heard, and I'm curious about.
I built this as an experiment to get acquainted with the Windows Holographic platform. I believe Javascript could be a great jumping off point for developers who are interested in hologram development on HoloLens.

There's a lot to understand when it comes to getting started with HoloLens (Unity and DirectX are the only choices other than this) and the ramp up time can be significant. A lot of web developers out there have experience with, or have played with Three.js. My hope is to bring WebGL and Three.js to HoloLens so the barrier to entry for curious developers will be as low as possible.
I also work on a framework that is also cross-platform: https://www.primrosevr.com
I guess this is not getting through, but she's not submitting the article to you for you to evaluate. She's not obliged to tell you about any of this in the first place, and she can give as much or as little detail as she feels is appropriate. If you just don't trust her, then quotes would make no difference. If you are willing to believe her, then believe also that a woman is perfectly capable of figuring out when she's being harassed and doesn't need you to check her reasoning for her. The idea that you are going to find some flaw in her reasoning on the basis of a few quotes, with no knowledge of the individuals or situations involved, is really quite absurd.
True, but fighting practices often requires naming them so people know what you're talking about. "Bias" is a technical term already, so...

In actuality it's a form of double-billing, of collecting from both the sender and receiver even though both they've both paid for access to the other already.
At what point did sexist discrimination enter the scenario? That's what's not clear. If the original offense against which the employee was defended by her manager was inherently sexist, then the defense need not be viewed as being inherently sexist.

(i.e., a manager can and should defend an employee against sexist behavior, and such defense isn't a priori sexist behavior itself even though the defensive behavior wouldn't have ever taken place if the employee weren't of their particular gender, which would of course make it otherwise look sexist.)
Not a developer but love technology:
I began my organization skills by deconstructing simple BASIC games when BASIC was around as a pre-teen.
Now, I'm hired to organize physical and electronic records, establish filing systems, workflows, and make physical records match the electronic records.

Create presentations that gather audiences' attention while not taking over from the speaker.

Desire to break into business analysis and have performed the work but not enough to make it official.

Past life created billing reports and client bills for a law firm. That took their THREE day billing process to less than one day on a sneakernet Access DBMS I designed.

Have also created feasible project and organizational budgets for humanitarian nonprofits.

Created an ad-hoc computer class for uneducated adults. Was told, "I've learned more with you in 15 minutes than a whole week at the community college." I purchased those computers for $4.00.
Thanks for the catch; I didn't account for the split. Still, it looks like the SPY handily beat MSFT's return over that time period.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=0&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=0&...
that's my point.
Run "netstat -nob" in a admin prompt and you will see what I mean.

I block all those apps now with Windows firewall except firefox, chrome and Windows defender.

Also you can check out the default windows firewall config and see how many out going connections are allowed AND CONNECTED by default.

I always configure my system network security by default disable ALL and only selected app/ports are allow connect to internet.

Win10 firewall is completely opposite - its default configure for outgoing are "Allow ALL".
Theoretically, the possibility exists. The question is how to create, deliver and monitor the pharmacological chaperone(s) without deleterious side effect(s).

I shy at the term magic bullet because it sounds like a panacea, but again yes, the technology you describe is certainly within the realm of scientific creativity to produce.

If you're into molecular medicine I'd be delighted to chat further if you care to PM me.
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I think they are talking about a system that unconditionally asks for the password every 10 minutes even while the computer is in active use.
Type names are irrelevant here. Unit could be called "Tuple0", or be defined as a synonym of a type named such. The semantics are identical.
It's pretty tough to create such a currency.
We are constantly updating the site (it's been live for two years now), and that was one of the newest areas that has come through.

We manage all of this on github (https://github.com/Google/WebFundamentals) and love getting feedback on what we need to improve!
It also offloads several of the features of X to the clients. Including inter-process communication and networking. I suppose you can view this as good or bad, but it certainly much smaller and, in some ways, more efficient since I don't need to have the ability to network unless I load up an RDP.
Makes no sense to me. Vast numbers of Hollywood stars who build their careers as violent people on screen (Jason Bourne e.g.) are anti-gun people in real life. I don't think Gun companies are putting any pennies into movies.

People in general including myself love violence on television and love guns in real life. I think Hollywood is merely appealing to people's taste to make profits for themselves.
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In addition to that, the Home section shows new content. We try to cover everything – from the basics to new APIs on Web Fundamentals.
It's always fun to play with cheats on.
I will check it out. Thanks for the link.
Reproducible builds is an excellent QA initiative, but let's not overestimate their security benefits.

They're maybe going to protect us from random ELF viruses on developers' machines, but not from a targeted attack.

Why bother pwning binaries when it's much easier to pwn the source?

I mean, it's so easy it's already been done:

https://lists.debian.org/20030213165225.GB7379@azure.humbug....
But yes, we should sort this to make it clearer
I'd suggest finding a hands-on online course that gives you a tiny portfolio in the end. A lot of the fun with programming is seeing your work come alive and seeing all the projects you've completed. Assuming you haven't programmed before, I wouldn't go with buying a programming language-specific book to start since those can be pretty boring to go through. Books will start to be useful as you develop a lot more curiosity and want to fill in your knowledge gaps.

My friend's learning from the ground-up and he's using Code Academy (https://www.codecademy.com). If you're a little more serious about this, you could also look into Udacity's Nanodegree program.
This and many other horrors are touched on in the great book Command and Control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)

It's truly astonishing the US hasn't nuked itself at least a half dozen times.

These bombers were flying all over the place day and night with fully operable nuclear weapons.

Recent news relating to an incident in Canada: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/mark-iv-nuclear-wea...
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We have to ask that you please do not introduce political (or otherwise) controversy into unrelated threads like this. It so predictably trashes the discussion that it's indistinguishable from outright trolling.
Good on Apple for "completely" fixing this, according to the authors. But am I wrong to wish for more plain-English acknowledgement of the problem and reassurance in Apple's 10.12.2 release notes?

i.e. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207423

Anyways, at this point in time it's nice to read (from the authors of the exploit): "The mac is now one of the most secure platforms with regards to this specific attack vector."
Just an FYI, NASA live streams mosts of these launches here: https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public
Well, personally, I don't consider that a justification for homicide, but to each his own.
Then they can implement stippled lines in their application. It seems absurd to expect X to support rarely used extensions simply because "someone" might use them. It's not like stippled lines are no longer allowed on the Linux desktop, you just can't hook into the desktop compositor to get them.
You have to remove the fixed header in my opinion. It consumes 100px and I really see no reason for having it fixed.
Why aren't space ports then at higher altitudes but mostly at sea-level like cape canaveral? At the beginning the rocket flies comparably slow, so the lower atmosphere density is not that important, its the speed that is hard.
Missing: "managing web projects".

Anybody has a good reference on this? Including managing teams from different backgrounds and details on documentation and artifacts that support web projects?
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How much "patience" do you have with people who are mugged, freeze and don't say anything about it to the police?

Did the mugging not happen?

It's not the victims obligation to, after they have been assaulted, do anything in particular. Anything which will satisfy your "patience". They have been assaulted, and nothing the victim fails to do changes that fact.
Frankly "stupid" is putting it lightly. Read Bush by Jean Edward Smith which just came out a few months ago.

> Rarely in the history of the United States has the nation been so ill-served as during the presidency of George W. Bush.

His closing statement since I don't have the quote handy is basically invading Iraq was the single worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States.

I think it is safe to say Bush made many stupid decisions, but that is what happens when you rely on ideology moreso than facts.

http://a.co/eyCit1B
It does seem unfair to fault one theory for making up terms but to ok the invention of dark matter and its placement wherever needed. Perhaps dark matter will be like vulcan: a big chunk of mass invented and placed so as to confirm an outdated model. The new model described a new force, mooting the need for the mass.
Not really.

But I'm supposed to give He Who Is Smarter Than You some credit for holding things together after He Who Is Smarter Than You didn't notice the Bin Laden is determined to attack inside the US memo? And then he gave up on Bin Laden altogether? Similarly, he blew off the Katrina briefing but pronounced that Michael Brown did a heckofa job.

No.
What motivates me is far from what I do for 8 hours a day (sitting behind a desk and writing code).

Honestly, it's the belief that communities, at the level of grassroots, can be empowered to be further engaged in the social discourses of their society. I have a strong belief that while our government powers are playing politics, families who are living in impoverished neighborhoods can be encouraged to be active agents of change and can move populations. I'm working with a couple non-profit organizations (that are around the world) that do exactly this and the results we see are incredibly encouraging and endearing. Not only are youth getting excited and working in their communities, their siblings and parents are also getting involved. If it wasn't for this work (of which I spend hours _after work_ partaking in), I don't know what would motivate me.

EDIT: Just to clarify, this empowerment comes through education at the level of the neighborhood. Looking at this practically, it means training our younger future generations and providing them the tools they need to succeed (getting a good education in school, living a moral life, being a good citizen, etc). All this through a process of learning at the level of the organizations I'm working with.
Well, SQLite has to be accessed over a filesystem. This sounds like it would proxy to a sqlite db located on the Redis server.
Still sounds dicey but I could see the appeal if you didn't have the DBA skills necessary to set up a decent PostgreSQL or other SQL server.
So desperate. It is like going to gym to date with Adriana Lima.
I have this dream that someday we'll build a SR-710 that's 10x the size and carry a BIG payload. And then putting stuff into orbit will basically be strapping your thing to a "big" upper stage (but small relative to a whole rocket stack), loading it into the cargo bay and then some fancy flying.

I know it'll never happen for a variety of reasons. But it's such a cool plane and when you think about cruising at mach 3 (2000mph+, 15% of escape velocity (http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/)) it seems like it could make the rocket equation for a plane-launched rocket much, much more forgiving.
That hasn't stopped them in Tibet. The fact that Taiwan is a smallish island simplifies matters considerably, since China can easily impose a naval blockade and wait for rebels to run out of munitions. Agreed it would work out badly over the long term but strategically it's not hard.
American Greed episode on Silk Road:

http://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/american-greed/full-episode/silk...
If the West had not supported the rebels, the dictators could have crushed the rebels, and the countries could have gone back to relative stable life, albeit under a harsh regime. With less loss of lives that what happened now.
SpaceX was originally going to build a 4-engine Falcon for Stratolaunch, which is building a huge carrier aircraft, but later decided it was a distraction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratolaunch_Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Air

Stratolaunch's latest strategy is to use Pegasus XL to launch from their plane, as many as three in a single flight. While they had flirted with a rocket that had one cryo stage, Pegasus XL and the other rocket that OrbitalATK might build for them are both all-solids.
This list makes me feel a lot better about all the projects I didn't finish.

Infact, I'm going to not finish more now.
Start scratching itches. There are a lot of tasks in that role that you repeat frequently. Maybe you have to generate reports or report summaries for the CIO from data you collect across the company. Maybe it doesn't come in in a standardized format.

Play around with python and/or numpy for this (lots of tutorials online) for slurping data from a text file and processing it to generate those summaries. Start playing around with this to get the basics of the language, writing functions, conditional logic and loops.

Hell, you could even play with programming macros in Excel (not my preference, but it is readily available in most offices, and, if like mine, you'll have lots of reports in Excel already). The point here is not to pick you favorite or final language, but to get some practice with manipulating data, consuming input, producing output, and using logic effectively.
What happens when the technology you created becomes "last year's" technology? Then you have to continually create the latest tech, which is probably even more exhausting than simply keeping up with the latest.
I wonder how it looks to courts that Oracle, thus far, has strategically singled out Google?

If Oracle does not show a concerted effort to protect their copyright from all who are "infringing", does that help delegitimize their case against Google?
Facilitating better living and working for the people around me; that's what motivates me, and it's why I became an engineer. Seeing something I've built help someone makes me ridiculously happy!
The beautiful.
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> Powerful men tend to be believed when they claim ideas and emotional states. Not-powerful men tend to be not-believed, or accused of lying.

Interesting - I tend to see people in power believed far less than people without in the communities I'm in. I wonder if either I'm not seeing something, or I'm in a bubble and my communities are actually better than most.

Do you have any specific examples as they apply to feminist communities? I'd really like to find out whether I'm missing something.
It's a great way to learn Linux.

But really, the documentation is the best of any GNU/Linux distribution, bar none. There are very few things I cannot figure out by going to the arch wiki.
Why would gun industry ask film industry to do product placement for M134 Miniguns, M240 machine guns, or Thompson submachine guns when they can't sell full auto guns to civilians since 1986?
For design patterns REST, DRY, MVC (and it's variants). For algorithms a basic knowledge that a triple nested loop is likely to be O(n^3) and when to use basic datastructures like hash maps/arrays/lists/sets (no need to know how to implement them) etc as well as the humbleness to use library packages should suffice.

I would argue that in 2016 to be a web developer one should either be capable of (1) full stack or (2) building thick client type applications to run in the browser. I would argue that the simple build a website type jobs are dying out and being replaced by Wordpress installers.