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You seem to suggest that being informed vs misinformed is a binary state: that people who consider themselves more informed are also misinformed because they haven't read everything.

Being informed is a probabilistic game. Every news source is from a particular perspective, with some bias and some error. But unless they are all ultimately controlled by a conspiracy, or have systematic bias / error, consuming more news sources will increase the amount of correct information one has about the world. There is a definite trend towards being more informed when consuming more news sources, particularly if they are from different ends of the political spectrum but with high reputation for accuracy.

Whether being informed is useful to the average citizen most of the time is another question entirely. News as entertainment, hyped headlines, the continuous need for updates that drive 24-hour news - I don't think these things are good for anyone. They always search for sensationalism, always look for a hook that drives an emotional response, outrage, anger, fear, nationalism, racism, bigotry - they appeal to our worst impulses.
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I did both and really enjoyed it at that age :) I can remember riding my BMX for hours, shooting air guns and then going home to code some BASIC or just playing random games.
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Yes, my comment made a statement that added to the conversation. Maybe you missed it? I'll expand for you.

I have studied statistics, and I understand that correlation does not imply causation. However, if you're going to allege that a professional scientific statistician failed to even consider the most trivial and obvious of non-causative correlations, then you're being insulting.

And it's fine to insult scientists. They're not special snowflakes. Do it, if they have a track record of lies, or deceit, or carelessness, or stupidity. But be aware when you're doing it, and why. Don't just blithely say "Hey guys, have we considered the possibility that these scientists are either drooling idiots or evil liars?" That's uncharitable to an extreme.

And yes, I've read it. They are not, as OP suggested, drooling idiots or evil liars.
Pretty amazing that in the quarter-turn metric, only one confirmed state requires the full 26 moves.

http://cube20.org/qtm/
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Of those, I think only #1 and #2 should be considered "applications".
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People have been saying this for years, yet actually changing things remains difficult. :/
Iraq having wmds will probably be looked back as the start of fake news peddled by the mainstream media outlets.
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> For Webpack, that's creating an empty project and incrementally adding config, starting with just an entry point (use a simple script importing some modules) and an output filename. Add one loader/plugin at a time. Move into boilerplates once you're familiar with the basic concepts.

I attended a General Assembly bootcamp last year (to great success afterward for me), and the pervasiveness of jumping right into a generator / boilerplate really caught me the wrong way.

I felt like going the path you describe, starting with relatively low complexity and building on top of it, was/is the right way.

Even talking to co-workers who have been doing this stuff for years, there's little incentive to jump into a boilerplate, if only there's then two learning curves... one for the boilerplate / its layout, and one for the tooling involved (React or Angular, etc).

> A boilerplate is another person's code, and while it's good to avoid NIH, unless it's superbly documented, it contains tricks and workarounds that only cloud real understanding.

This caused a lot of headaches with other students in my class (and classes afterward).

My idea to "solve" it was to incrementally build out my/our own boilerplate so we'd be able to at least use that confidently, as well as maybe have some understanding into how someone else built their boilerplate. It got shot down due to time constraints, though.

Whenever I'm asked to come in and mentor newer students for their projects, this is something I try to impart, though.
> not really in the sense of owning only exactly what you need to do what you want and no more

It's one and the same really. Once you have a bit more money the pragmatic live-in-a-shoebox minimalism tends to transform into the "aesthetic" variety - you still own a bare minimum that makes you happy, but you can now afford a better quality of the same. Be it a larger place or a more expensive pair of jeans.
> I do also tend towards minimalism but as a way to increase my freedom, not the opposite.

These things increases my freedom.
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Honestly the highest bounty is $2000 only, seem low for remote code execution.
Why lisp ? Because you want to give him the best possible tool for computing and ruin his (possible) future career, where he will be forced to work with people that like java and/or javascript.

(Downvote me all you want... :P )
No, they didn't. The "peg" was maintained by the Central Bank buying and selling dollars, trying to keep the exchange rate at its target. This graph (http://www.mises.org.br/images/articles/2012/Maio/7.png) from http://www.mises.org.br/Article.aspx?id=1294 shows the exchange rate. As can be seen in that graph, the exchange rate was never actually fixed during the transition. There was no moment where the currency was the USD.
Sure, but if hyper-inflation results in that USD 500 buying me a loaf of bread each month, I think 'better off than before' is kindof irrelevant. There have to be tangible benefits to the recipient over and above, say income from finding pennies in the street...
Desperate people are more willing to put up with unsafe or abusive conditions that could lead to disablement.
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Try some different shapes, like Pyraminx or Skewb; they're somewhat different in mindset, so that knowing 3x3 isn't enough.
Entryism is the practice of infiltrating an organisation/group to gain trust then using a variety of tactics to try and subvert the politics/ideological premise of the group. Also misdirecting resources to support the subversive ideology and efforts. And ultimately trying to destroy the group and capture the membership into the subversive organisation that was behind the entryism in the first place.

What I gather from the piece and the reactions here point to a fairly clear example of entryism.
Looks to me like Maya is focused on colloquial strings, while Arrow aspires to be a full datetime replacement. They're complementary.

Maya could have been built to require Arrow, but it makes sense to avoid the dependency.
You can be disabled and power trough a workday. Also in disability evaluation is local work. If you can't do the work found locally also helps.

The current opioid epidemic started from Appalachian miners that powered trough back pain to work IIRC. The jobs ended, the pain and addiction remained. Throw hopelessness in the mix and it is not hard to see how a medical condition could turn into social one.
Samoa did change the calendar. The local <-> utc mapping changed. In order to update the stored database, you need to convert all times to local with the old mapping, then convert to utc again with the new mapping.
(Cannot read the paywalled article.)

I wonder how FaceTime was utilized, given that it's one-to-one link, not social media.
"...and it’s great for interchanging programs between different machines..."

This is like saying "DNA is great for interchanging phenotypes between different locations".

I think that the missing piece as to why it's universal is that Linux was better than DOS, not VMS. You kind-of, sort-of had to have a VAX to run VMS. Your desktop 386 could run SCO.

It's ... useable ( but of low useability ) so the Windows API doomed Linux to success.
You're probably right. Point being, they already shipped code for Linux.
The bill is settled when you take your car in for service.
Maybe some more clarity on the "Russian's hacking DNC" is warranted, in light of the CIA track record.
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> he huge problem here is that popularity means nothing if the user is not aware of what he/she is using

I'd say that doesn't matter at all.

The person running Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge doesn't know they're using a VMS workalike/derivative/successor either.
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I almost liked it better when we needed Flash for video and audio, because now with HTML5, I continuously run into website abusing the feature for advertising. (Whoever decided to use autoplay video and audio for web advertising should be killed.)
How did we as an industry go from "create a blog in 10 minutes" with rails to a "create a twitter clone in 7 days"?

It seems we have gone backwards in terms of speed of getting things done in the last decade.
SSH can also be used for SCP...
Maybe there's a niche there for a very very pared down computer. Like a typewriter with a monochrome screen that lets you minimally browse a subset of the web (e.g. Wikipedia), do email, word processing, play mp3s, open PDFs, and that's it.

Maybe you want a color screen for YouTube/photos, but that's it.

If this feels more like a microwave or radio than full computer, this is something that someone like my grandparents would be very content with.
No, because there's a simple solution to state actors doing massive computations: make the parameters so large (2048 bits in the case of DH) that the computations are infeasible.

DH precomputation attacks are only a problem with smaller prime sizes (e.g. 1024 bits). Experts have always known to avoid small parameters, but developers copy-and-pasted them into their code without knowing they were bad.
Not just dictatorships. Islamist dictatorships (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia). A lot of western (not just US) diplomacy is horribly short sighted.
Build a proper electricity grid and sell power from sunlit areas to dark areas. You need the grid anyway. At the same time insist that all new dwellings are built to passivhus standard. Also arrange for all plugged in electric vehicles to be able to supply power to reduce peak demand from the net.

All this is scaleable and mostly going to happen to some degree anyway and avoids the need for massive capital projects that are susceptible to corruption.
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This American Life did a good report on this a few years back. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/...
Do you have a source on that, or do you think lawmakers might also be concerned with the well being of children, mums, dads, single parents, young parents–no matter how many children/parents there are?
Impossible  for adults but not child
Stakeholders won't do this, very nearly ever. They'd rather go down with the ship than preserve the gnosis in a rigorous manner. People believe their only path is to charge rents to the company on pitiful subsets of the overall gnosis, as the firm experiences a slow decay in orbit.

And what if the gnosis is essentially wrong? It usually is; it's just not wrong enough to kill the firm outright. Humans consider themselves to be parasites when they can.
This sounds bad, what type inference algorithm is Swift using? If they are computing some kind of least upper bound, I'm not sure why it would get so slow.
For encryption using S/MIME with mailx (from heirloom-mailx), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12742809
Is "you should be asking these questions instead of making those assumptions" such an unclear argument?

The questions are the whole point – that's what the speaker wants us to keep in mind as we make choices as professionals.
Finnish sauna is not dry, the idea is to generate the steam (called löyly in Finnish) after you go in by throwing water on the hot rocks.

Best saunas are quite moist and not too hot, but the amount of moisture in air is controlled by the bathers. Sometimes this ends up in a competition (who can stand the wettest steam) but that's actually slightly bad manners.

For perfect results, I add a little beer to the water I throw on rocks (this is a matter of taste, some say that's not proper; in any case, things like menthol or eucalyptus don't really belong in Finnish sauna steam).

As to the positive health impacts, I'm completely agnostic. Or perhaps I think that it's more that healthy people can go often to sauna, not that going often would make you healthier.
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This wasn't unique to VMS. Symbolics Genera had this capability. ITS, VME-B, and I think TOPS-10, also had numbered file versions.
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Of course.
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Software-Quality-Capers-Jon...
The Affordable Care Act is flawed, why not public pricing?
Submitted this on reddit, but thought the tech-savvy might have differing opinions.

"The Affordable Care Act creates no incentive for insurance companies to reduce prices, only their margins. Why not instead create a public service that forces health care providers to lock in a price?

If health care providers were not allowed to manufacture a starting price as part of negotiation, everyone could shop for the service that suits them. Insurance would still be helpful, just like it is for normally good drivers. The masses pay into a system in case they might need it, and those with the misfortune of needing help are funded.

Medical institutions and doctors can set realistic prices, the ones that insurance companies are already negotiating. The transparency would make billing simpler and more efficient. There could be some rating system, but I doubt that belongs in a government system. But any technology company will have access to prices and could amend with ratings.

Thoughts?"
They do this every december. If you watched pbs in the us you would think the same thing.
My understanding is that most UBI proposals see the UBI as a replacement for more traditional welfare with some amount of raising taxes to keep it debt-neutral. As for the rest of what you're saying, I have no idea what you are actually trying to communicate.
These people quit their shitty jobs because they are no longer forced to do them for the sake of survival, and now have more time to spend with their family, which–I guarantee you—is more valuable than whatever they were doing at work.
Why do you think wanting to quit your job is anybodies fault, but the employers?

What you suspect of other people tells a lot about you, and very little about other people. I would be careful with that.
They have $90M in savings. They already met their donation goal, half way through the donation period. They spend $2M a year on keeping the site running. They are fine.
What are the advantages of even using sql server when I can use postgres far more easily on linux ?
The foundation has more and more money each year and spends quite a bit on things that are not critical to running wikipedia, so I have no reason to believe that Wikipedia is at financial risk.
We need Click-To-Play for web video. I'm not even kidding.
I suppose fake news has been totally normal in the showbizz coverage world - and popular. Now it goes mainstream and people complain...
Honestly, the two things that kept me motivated to keep writing (actually writing, not just "oh hey this is cool") code when I was learning were games and my girlfriend.

Games - We were learning how to play Pathfinder, so I wrote a little character creation thing in Python.

Girlfriend - thought it was awesome when I wrote her letters that were interactive programs. Though I found out later she didn't want to go through multiple times to find everything I'd written, so she just skipped to reading the source.
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Depends who you ask, for you probably not that much. For mickeysoft however... new territory to sell licenses to at some point.

[edit]
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-p...

It would have been nice if some were able to explain why the above reasoning of selling licenses is incorrect? There is no other reason for MS to do this besides money.
I misunderstood your comment as agreeing with jey's comment and I concur with your explanation here. My apologies and thank you for expanding.
Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9464505
That wasn't fake news. Fake news is knowingly spreading news which is either a hoax or likely to be a hoax.

Reporting information from a credible government source based on facts in evidence, is simply reporting. The facts supplied to the reporter might be wrong, or their conclusion might be faulty, but as long as it's based on evidence and in good faith, it's not 'fake news'.
1. & 2. Haven't personally seen that usage NPM, but I'm not really surprised since people have been doing similar with Rails (e.x. jquery-rails) for a long time. Did you check the NPM module's GitHub for instructions? If you can't figure it out, then just do it the 'traditional' way.

3. If you don't want to use those tools, then don't. You certainly don't need them for a Hello World project. Those are for organizing huge projects that are having trouble dealing with the global scope. This has nothing to do with ES5.

All in all, it seems like you're over complicating things for yourself by grabbing a bunch of libraries you don't need. Also, the way you're thinking of ES6 doesn't make sense. It's just the next version of the language, which includes new features and syntaxes. It's like saying "Oh I don't want to upgrade to Ruby 2 until I'm comfortable with Ruby 1.9", which you just wouldn't do.
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I think uncensored internet is under attack in general even in the america and europe. No one with power seems to like the idea of stuff they cant control.
IMHO "Cyber Attribution" (cough) isn't really something you can do in a serious way. Let's be honest and admit that it's essentially "cui bono?" followed by looking at the locations of the first two C&C layers or something like that.

Not saying it's not possible, with low-grade attackers it could be quite easy in some instances. But to actually attribute some attack to some entity you need actionable intelligence, not looking at - very likely consciously spoofed - traces left behind.

I think we should also consider the standards for "cyber" (cough) evidence in the light of the recent "junk science in courts" articles showing how real-world evidence is often inconclusive or spoofable.

We can't possibly think that it's easier, or more clear, with computers, whose default modus operandi is "fail open".
Anybody looked into migration to the Linux platform? Realistically, what would be the advantages/cost?
thanks!

The sql server integration services seem interesting.
For NLP, they use either MITIE[0] or spaCy[1].

That said, from my experience, you can get surprisingly far with simple systems; for instance, queread[2] relies on graph learning and statistics.

[0]: https://github.com/mit-nlp/MITIE

[1]: https://spacy.io/

[2]: https://github.com/espadrine/queread#workings
I think OP meant jam. I believe at some point in the discussions about the Galileo frequencies that the US threatened that they may need to use an ASAT weapon on Galileo spacecraft if they believe the system was being used against them. That would have been the only way to maintain GPS and stop Galileo. So Galileo switched to a different frequency than GPS.
Funny that JavaScript would find community alignment on something (anything!) where Python can't. I guess that's a testament to the work of the Moment creators.
It was super low tech...a CNN Turk anchor held her phone up to a TV camera. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/07/17/01/3658391B0000057...
> The only one I've ever used that I remember not actively hating was MomentJS.

Boy do we disagree. Between the mutable API, the fuzzy parsing, the lack of tz support and the yet-another-reinvention of date/time formatting DSL[0] moment was one of those things I'd rather have not had in my life.

[0] which, to add insult to injury, is really similar to but not quite compatible with the LDML's
CIA's intelligence assessment on Iraq WMD:

>The document determines that Saddam Hussein had an active chemical weapons program - although crucially, the CIA couldn't prove that his regime had actually resumed producing chemical and biological agents and cast doubt on the actual extent of Saddam's program.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the...

The Bush administration misrepresented the intelligence.
That's beside the point, since "Progressive disclosure of complexity" would still work for using those "open source libraries", as the most common case of bring a third party library into a Swift app would be to consume and/or extend its API, not refactor or maintain it.

I've used lots of third party libraries and for the most part I don't care at all what's going on in their code as long as they work for what they do.
Google, at least, has added a lot of internal controls.
What evidence do you have of infiltration beyond the fact that you don't like what the speaker said?

It's a pretty extraordinary charge that someone would become a computer programmer and become a teacher of programming purely in order to give a conference talk that seems to suggest, at root, that we consider how our programs treat people. What a revolutionary!
Journalists reiterating the government without critical reasoning isnt journalism.

Its propaganda.
> Saddam had actually believed 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer because Washington would need his secular government to help fight fundamentalism. How woefully wrong he had been

That was an interesting thought if you take the war on terror at face value. But as he said, he did not listen to what was actually going on and being said. The war was never about terror.
I wonder if you could get a build tool to dig in to the redux default state and compile the thing to index.html. Then you could use whatever you want for the backend.
What is Google doing with its leftover Nexus phones?
Since the Pixel was debuted, the Nexus 5x and 6 disappeared from the Google Play store without any clearance sale.

When I heard a new model was coming, I figured then would be a good time to pick up another Nexus because its price would probably be lowered as part of a clearance move usually implemented by brands during new releases. I also expected this because of the Xmas holiday period timing.

Google Play support said they had no authorized resellers in Canada to recommend. I want an unlocked one, so getting one from phone companies like Bell or Rogers won't work because they're tied to a contract (or highly overpriced if offered without).

I have NO interest in buying a Pixel.
I like Kenneth's work, but "I wrote a new datetime library" is a cliche now. We have datetime, dateutil, pytz, babel, arrow, pendulum, delorean, a bunch of lesser known stuff, and now this. I have yet to see the need for anything but the first four.
If you're interested in slow cookers, it's worth trying a pressure cooker as well or instead.

I have a Beef Bourguignon recipe that cooks in 45 minutes and is superb.
I found programming myself on the family computer. Although, I'm not quite sure how I found 'QBASIC.EXE' when all I had were Apple II and Commodore 64 BASIC books in the school library.

What I needed back then was someone to give direction and help. If I ever have children my plan would be to make them aware of programming, and if they try it, good for them. I'll just mentor them along the way.