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> Worse yet, unlike Gold, the foreign nation can issue currency at will (well, essentially), to actors in your state, and basically run it as they like.

I'm having trouble parsing this statement. What do you mean actors in your state, and what do you mean run it as they like?

There are two sort of orders of magnitude of money that I can sort of make out what you're talking about.

One is bribe money, where you can give people money to do stuff that you want them to do. That's usually on the order of hundreds of thousands to millions, and it doesn't matter what currency that is. That should be a rounding error to sovereign government.

The second is trade war money. The sort of thing where you spend lots and lots of money trying to destabilize an industry or mess with a country's economic stability. That sort of intervention is measured in the billions to tens of billions, and that also doesn't matter what currency it's denominated in. If a foreign country decides to enter into a trade/commodities war with you, for instance dumping steel to ruin your domestic steel business, that also doesn't matter what currency they do it in.

> the current US educated president, basically made the country's reserve bank answerable to the state, printed loads of money, had the currency replaced by USD, sold away the country's gold to Goldman Sachs, and granted Assange asylum.

Dollarization happened in 2016. The gold exchange sucre last existed in 1932. Ecuador seemed to have given up wikileaks in 2016. And what does the fact that the current president is educated in the US have to do with anything?

You're conflating a bunch of events that happened over a long period of time and trying to draw a causal relationship out of them. Why?
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Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging
Which makes it even more appalling that in many cases it's not possible to upgrade from 2nd class to 1st class. You'd actually have to buy an entirely separate ticket for the full price.
With Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the answer is obvious: because those countries invest boatloads of money in the American economy, and losing that money would be bad.

Turkey is a NATO ally and has a very powerful and experienced military as well as a strong sense of national identity. The USA could not openly intervene like it did with Iraq, Syria and Libya.
Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQ0ISk-wSU
I think we have different core axioms and are at an impasse.

I think due to the extreme nature of war, journalists largely failed their responsibilty, and what we know today confirms it.

The large amount of human misery it created was too great a cost, and the refusal to learn lessons from it is a huge tragedy.

Thank you for the fairly civil discussion.
Note to self: Continue never buying used mobile phones.
The real world is the ultimate judge. It's not an easy thing to do, but when you fully realize and accept this, you can then learn to harness it and in turn acquire infinite power to change things.
They don't have to. Let's say an enterprise wants to go start moving its backend to the cloud. Now there is a very significant price difference between windows instances and Linux instances. The client commercial product can still run on Windows and the database in Linux
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Note to self: NEVER assume privacy when using ANY phone with a camera or a mic.
I use an RSS reader and filter certain domains, medium.com being one of them :) Cuts way down on the noise and prevents rescanning over stuff I've already read or dismissed.
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If he has some homework that could be programmed away maybe suggest he automate it? I understand there would be concern that he wouldn't "really" learn whatever the underlying task was but I've always come away from an automation task with a much deeper understanding of the underlying problem than I got from just doing it repeatedly.
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That stance was withdrawn a few days after it was instantiated.
Not having to run Windows is a big factor. (Just so you know: I run a lot of Windows servers, so I'm not being knee-jerk snarky. This is a real cost).
Well, it's not like you can expect Win7 to just doesn't magically support new file formats? Video is complicated and finicky, you'd be doing bullshit tasks like that for one reason or another
It's still lossy! Maybe it isn't lossy to the human ear, but what is the data going to be used for? There are assumptions you're building in here. What if I'm now interested in using the data for a bat ear model? All of a sudden, that information is now of limited use.

She's saying "be aware of your assumptions." Her entire screed is a call to take a step back, and recognize that programming is reifying assumptions and systems of control. Be aware of what those happen to be. Make those choices conscious, rather than unconscious.

When I'm creating a UI, am I assuming the viewer has 20/20 corrected vision on a 1920x1080 monitor with the full set of rods and cones? Am I considering folks that are colorblind, might need to have different zoom levels, or might use screen readers?

When I'm creating a tool for data analysis, am I making it for other programmers? Or can I maybe widen its usage to the business analysis side, thereby making the tool more useful to more people. When I change a tool, is it breaking someone else's workflow?
Please resist the temptation to scoot right back up to generic politics in a thread like this. We've had that discussion before on Hacker News, let's try to have a new one.
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Looks like you can't assume it when you're not using it either.
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Actually most of the Turkish people think that US has tried to coup in Turkey with the help of CIA and very religious and anti-secular (who hates Ataturk) Gulen group. That group is so dangerous that they even faked themselves as secular on coup text which was read on tv forcedly.

That religious group has been ruling the country with their own politicians, lawyers, soldiers for the last 40 years however they want. Erdogan helped them gain power against real secular people and even jailed secular soldiers and journalists with this partnership. Many good people died in jail because of getting cancer.

Currently he is in a war against his old friend Gulen and clearing Turkey up from them. Both secular people and his fans support this action as that group ruined the country.

However Erdogan is upset at EU and US because they left him alone with his war so that's why he tries to provocate EU. Don't give a meaning to his sayings/actions.

Btw Kurds and PKK (terrorists) are very different. Don't get fooled by western media.
Depends on the skill level of the grader, I suppose, but phrases like "postsemantic nationalism" are a red flag to me as an armchair philosopher with some knowledge of the history of postmodernist thought.
An old one was RubberhoseFS albeit with assumption the user would be tortured possibly to dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_(file_system)

I wrote two on these things. First is general stuff for both security and stopping legal reach of LEO's. Second is incrementally designing something like Tor with assurance against a NSA-level opponent using methods that stopped them in the past and then some overkill on top of it. The latter is to cover any advances they might be making.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/a_court_order...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/09/identifying_d...
It's Finland, not Iceland.
You can if the app supports automatic updates. Therefore, end-to-end only fits if the app doesn't do automatic updates and the target is unlikely to do a manual one that's potentially compromised.
I can confirm somewhat. I used a markov chain generator
for a couple of 101 level english classes, with filters to adapt for my personal style like word choice restriction.

I also gave a few passes manually to correct and cleanup things that were too ridiculous.
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I didn't mean to imply that you made such a claim. It was just a way to point out an alternative interpretation of "important." That is, some things may be of greater importance even if there are fewer of them.

It's nitpicking really, I understand that you had a particular perspective on what "important" meant in this case.
Is this not a serious crime of illegal wiretapping in Holland? Doesn't usually matter that it's his phone.

Does he address it in the video?
Give the kid Emacs, the language doesn't matter :P
> Khazackastan (or somewhere out there, however you spell those names)

You know this "Google" thing? You can look up the spelling there, if you don't remember countries names from school.
Nothing new to discover here.

Bits of AI history and the current state. But no current or future applications of AI in industry.

The guy who discovers the first killer application in the space will be rich and famous. Until then, most efforts will go the way of scheduling theory.

Theoretical results are nice. But 90% of effort for building applications goes into domain and project specific details. So every new client project is starting nearly from scratch.

This is a consultant project-business. Not a startup product-with-market-fitness business.
"The transparency would make billing simpler and more efficient."

But the insurance companies, lobbyists and the big pharmas don't want this transparency. They make record profits only because of this non-transparency. Imagine the jobs of hundreds of medical billers, transcriptionists going away as well if this whole healthcare "thing" becomes simpler.
Which security and privacy advocates have told users to use proxies to protect their privacy and security? Free proxies are widely recognized to be a threat to both.
Except it's not generated. A simple google search [1] reveals there's at least one paper out there that contains a structurally identical phrase [2]. The "Dada Engine" just takes real papers and substitutes nouns and pronouns. A similar strategy could probably be used on most any academic paper. But it does appeal to those who would never attempt to read these papers in the first place.

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=If+one+examines+textual+theo...

[2] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
It's all about the feedback loop. Failure analysis (where necessary) is more than a bumpersticker obituary. And we also need to catch lessons learned along the way, both the microfailures we learn from and the assumptions we tested and proved correct/incorrect. Last, it's vital to turn periodic recaps into more organized and systematic bodies-of-knowledge so it's fast/easy to learn from the history we're writing together.
Well this is what happens when you let Americans market your video games.

See also: Skyrim Pinball. Welcome to the future.
Here is a video of the talk she presented at that conference...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if-J8w2ay94
Timing. Postgres 9.5 was not on the horizon when we were building out our solution. Lacking OLAP support, the query complexity to achieve similar functionality would have been very cumbersome, error-prone, and non-performant (excessive use of unions, massive case clauses, lots of repetition, inscrutable window functions - a mess). Further, our finance team later insisted on using Oracle EssBase, where Postgres in any version will never be an option.
Is e + Pi irrational?
That's very similar to what people are doing with the BeagleBone black...there's a pair of PRUs in the AM3XXX processor that have direct access to memory. So, you do the hard work on the ARM, but let the PRU push pixels (or other data) that needs to be real time, jitter free, etc.

This guy is driving the CRT on an old mac with it...very cool: https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_video
You'd probaby have to change their tax regimen too. Seems completely unworkable.
> truck drivers are currently the most common job in over half of the states.

But not really[0]

[0] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/no-truck-driver-isnt-the-mo...
I'm curious about this, because I have an entirely different perspective. I know nothing about Denmark, but I have seen that Sweden's student debt is on-par or higher than student debt in the U.S. despite free tuition. But earning potential in Sweden is much lower.

How is class mobility in scandinavian states? Can you work your way up from the dregs of society to the top levels?

If I want my kids to go to a great school like Stanford or Harvard, can I reasonably expect to be able to find a way to cover tuition as a member of the middle class?

If I'm looking for a job in the $200k US range, what are my potential career options?

What kind of housing can I expect to find if I'm a sole earner as a software engineer with a family of 6?
She also produced a video talking specifically to that study as well, which can be found here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWKBsh7YTXQ
There are several different ways to implement UBI (look up "negative income tax" for one example). None of them actually result in someone earning more by working less, the marginal income seen given marginal nominal income still has a positive slope.
The undeniable fact is that there will be a case for any scenario, and that fact is the essential driver for code inflation. You can't shed the code since that code is there for a potential case; and you can't help adding code as you keep discovering/imagining new cases.

This is where a bit wisdom differentiates people. There is no winning trying to match exponential generality with our finite ability. So wise people seek essence and accept the reality that there will always be cases that are uncovered and the important thing is not to lose the essence -- bury the essence amid mountain of glut is not much different from losing the essence, therefore, it is often more plausible for the minimal approach than the bloat. The essence covers 80% of the time and the rest 20% of the time we cope with it.

In the case that you might not be using a shell and when you need the true/false such as with parallel or find? Why not write your true/false program then? In fact, I write my own parallel script every single time when I really need parallel. It is not hard. Takes about the same time for me to go through the man page.
cough SYSTEST/SYSTEST cough
Security requires a combination of things. Only proxies that worked were VPN's and protocol guards since their job can be handled almost totally at that layer. Doing native or web app security only relying on that layer is asking for it unless you trust everyone you're connected to. Doesn't stop companies from doing it.

The original criteria for high-assurance security, TCSEC's A1 class, said you must secure the endpoints, network connections, databases, and application-layer software. Those systems resisted penetration by NSA's hackers during evaluation. Then, there's the mainstream "security" recommendations that said use low-assurance firewalls + insecure endpoints + bandaid software on them + optionally security- or privacy-oriented proxies. This was to get the benefits of those beautiful, fast-moving, COTS OS's without investing anything in real security. It came with the detriment you mentioned among many, many others that won't go away for some time if ever.
That also sounds a lot more legally practical, I think. You could even slowly adjust welfare and taxes as you increase the UBI.
This is true but I think a lot of obesity issues in this country, especially among the poor, are in large part due to the strange way food is subsidized. It is just cheaper to eat badly and while exercise and what not obviously matters the quality of affordable food is just very very low with large amounts of sugar and sodium making obesity and diet based diseases a lot more common.
This is the doctorate thesis by Cornel West. The levity and import of this text can only be fully realized when read aloud by him, in front of a liberal audience composed of similarly afflicted progressive uppity-types.
like that's what you're supposed to be worried about at age 10. Ridiculous.
A trivial google search will weed out these papers. They wouldn't make it past even the least skilled graders at any institution I'm familiar with... and if they did I think it would be the student who was really harmed, not the field.
Thanks for the interesting article! Are there any recommendations for non-English speakers? I'd be especially interested in German materials. I'd love to teach my eight year old daughter about computers and programming, but there are close to none books and resources available if the kid doesn't speak/read English yet.
In practice it is not very modular, parts of the library like Asio are so dependent to other parts in boost, and given that bootstrapping can be an annoyance at times, I have seen a los of project that decided to include the whole library.
Sorry perhaps I wasn't clear. Maybe I should have said that some forms of secrecy are necessary or justified in certain contexts.

Surely you don't believe that homosexuals living in countries where they might be put to death ought to be outed against their will?
I've used timezones with momentjs. http://momentjs.com/timezone/
Its great. The parsing also has a strict mode http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/

When did you last use it? I love working with momentjs.
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Yes I'm pretty sure you're right. I wrote most of my comment from memory and just dug up a reference, knowing the FAA doesn't operate GPS, but figured their FAQ was summarizing the satellite features.

But I've searched around and can't find anything that indicates that this is a feature of the satellites themselves, rather it's just as you say, the US military has replaced SA with the general ability to jam local radio traffic, including GPS. E.g. [1] is another source for that.

So it does look like the US can't block GPS for entire countries anymore, I take that back.

I must say though, I think any public commentary about GPS capabilities should be taken with a huge grain of salt. It's a military system, they're very likely lying or not telling the full truth about what it's really capable of. E.g. I find the claim that the new generation can't do SA by design dubious, surely just fuzzing the signal by some offset is a rather trivial change.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20050921115614/http://ngs.woc.no...
Data diversity: Preserving variety in data sets should aid machine learning
Really? You're concerned of the privacy rights of a thief?

The card/account owner clearly has a right to know the activity on their card. The usage information are facts. They can't be copyrighted by either the issuer or the account holder. I don't see where any privacy rights for the thief come into play, they definitely did not agree to be bound the the account terms and conditions.

What could be true is if the account holder violated the terms and conditions by knowingly allowing someone else to use the card. I'm actually not even sure what my license agreement allows, but it wouldn't surprise me if technically I can't give my card to a spouse or child to use, instead the issuer wants additional cards issued to make sure anyone using the card is bound to the account contract.
I'd go so far as to say, these days, to just NEVER assume privacy. With ANY tech. Ever. Doesn't matter where it's manufactured, nor where it's sold. Everything is data mined, one way or another. The "cloud" (really "someone else's machine") opposes privacy by definition. If the leak isn't in the hardware, it's in the software, and if not there it's in the pipe. There's no feasible way to control every point along the line.
You'd never run MS SQL Server and these other servers on the same machine either way, so you could easily run SQL Server on Linux and Reporting Services on Windows Server.

Although if you're virtualizing Windows Server, it may be effectively free to run an additional Windows Server instance (since you pay per core regardless); but if your hypervisor's resources are already saturated then you could take SQL Server off of it and put it onto a inexpensive Linux Server.
Author here. Thanks for the feedback.

My son's experience has generally been self-driven via Scratch. I introduced him to Scratch at around age 7 through CoderDojo and he really enjoyed it (I'm a big fan of Scratch for kids--it's the perfect balance of art, creativity and logic with programming concepts mixed in.

I introduced Python, then Javascript, after he asked me about what I do (I was excited that he actually asked, so I ordered the book). I'm more of a web designer/developer, not a software engineer, so I showed him to the tools I know (trying to keep things at his level) and set him on his way. The thought of being able to write his own video game keeps him motivated. He plays with the examples on phaser.io/examples and sees it as something he might be able to do after working through the lessons.

My biggest concern is pushing him into something that he doesn't want for himself. It should never feel like work. He likes the CodeSchool videos, jingles and exercises, so he does it. He got tired of the books, so he stopped. There are many long gaps, diversions and pivots, which is totally fine. If he just wants to play outside, build with Legos, read, watch a movie or do nothing, I don't bother him. Programming is not his job, it's just a skill that I think will be useful for him and is something I can actually help him with.

Side Note: I originally had a section in the post about how in the past it was more common to pass knowledge and skills down to your children in the form of trades (farming, sewing, blacksmithing, etc.) and is "computer programming" something worthy of passing down. I thought it digressed a bit too much, so I removed it.
Why is it wiretapping? He's not trying to get the guy convicted. He's merely recording what someone else is doing with his phone. If you take my phone from the table and snap a few nude selfies with it, should I respect your privacy?
Internal economy seems like it has improved by the numbers, but the greatest problem is the longevity of these improvements. If Turkey is not able to keep its economy together, whereas it will likely not be able to due to the aforementioned improvements being a result of the construction industry supplying for no demand, it is going to crash very badly.

Additionally, with its foreign policies and own political and socioeconomic problems, foreign investment has gone down significantly, leading to a great exchange rate declines (1.2 USD/TRY prior to the 2008 crisis, to 3.5 USD/TRY close today).
How a Putin Fan Overseas Pushed Pro-Trump Propaganda to Americans
I'm not well versed on the subject, but I assume it was just another of those large-scale intelligence failures, like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englandspiel only with the boot on the other foot. Groupthink in action again. Also, given the large number of important ciphers which were broken during the war, I'd guess wildly that the pre-war crypto communities (such as they were) were generally much too complacent about the risks from cryptanalysis, likely because ciphers had never been subjected to state attack on a Manhattan Project scale before. Comparable to the long time it apparently took for people to become generally aware of C buffer overflows as a serious security problem, maybe.
An interesting reminder of what we lose when we extend copyrights ad infinitum.
I think you should revisit this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller#The_Iraq_War
> You're concerned of the privacy rights of a thief?

These rights must apply to everyone. If you catch an intruder in your home, you can't tie him up and beat him with a crowbar, either. If someone attempts to mug you in the street, and you overpower them, you're not allowed to take money out of their wallet.