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I would have love to hear the debate about this back then, if there were indeed someone who was willing to advocate for the Tibetan Buddhists. I practice meditation, though not Tibetan Buddhism. I'm comfortable with both code and ceremonies of different kinds. It would have been interesting to attempt to mediate this.

As an exercise, I thought, how might I have approached this. What came up in the shower was something along the lines of:

This debate isn't really about a freedom of religion or tolerance, though it might seem like it. The Hackerspace has its own community, with it's own unspoken code of conduct, ethics, and values. Those values appear to be violated. I argue, though, there is a lot more in common between technologists and the Buddhists.

Hackers value freedom. The freedom to create, and to tinker. There is something liberating about being able to discover surprising things about the world, and reconfigure them in clever ways. Hackers do not like technological shackles. The practice of being able change technology is an exercise in this freedom.

Buddhists also value freedom -- the freedom of the mind and self. While classical Buddhists will argue up and down about the emptiness of mind, we're really talking about liberating all sentient beings from mind-made illusions. When you strip away the Mahayana (ceremonial) garments of Tibetan Buddhism, at it's core is about the liberation from the tyranny of yourself.

Ever had these nagging thoughts that won't go away? Ever wonder sometimes why things seem to suck even if everything seem OK? While Buddhist meditation practices do not specifically address psychology, it cannot help overlap it. Being aware of how mind and nature of mind leads to clearly seeing yourself.

In other words: these meditation practices hack the mind.

How effective are they? Can you measure happiness? To what extent can technology help or hinder this? Wouldn't you want to know?

There are some things that Hackers can benefit from the Buddhists, in so far as the hacking of the mind. So why would the ceremonies be uncomfortable?

To this, I address the Buddhists, some things from the core doctrines:

1. Right action
2. Right speech -- make no divisive speech
3. One of the Bodhisattva attainments: to teach according to where each person is at.

Can you honestly say this is Right Action and Right Speech? Is your speech really reaching the hackers?

The Hackers might state that law protecting freedoms is important, but as you know, causes and conditions can distort and change understanding of this. Not everything important might be said out in the important. What is _unsaid_ may be more important. Are those deeper values being honored?

If the core common value is freedom, maybe there is something the Buddhists in turn can learn from the hackers. They may want to participate, but participate in their own way. To measure what is going in the brain while someone is meditating. To record and track any benefit such practices might have.

The Bodhisattva ideal has this streak of radical inclusiveness too. There's something here that might benefit both groups.
I will believe it when I see it. I have no confidence that anything will actually change, and that anyone other than a token fall guy will be fired.
Check out the article, it essentially claims we might not.
> How often are you re-scoping everything?

Often twice. Once for when a post shows up on example.blog/ and again for example.blog/2017/post/. It's nice to not have to rewrite the headers inside my blog entries depending on where the post shows up. I really like the newfangled outline algorithm for that.
Classless, my pack of CSS CMS themes, uses this approach: https://github.com/websitesfortrello/classless
You only eat on the weekend? Seriously?

Socially, how does that work for you? I get a lot of enjoyment cooking and eating with my family every night.

Do you do any strenuous exercise during the week?
I think it is disgusting that you throw around accusations of sexism without foundation. I acknowledged ideas that children tend to have concerning sexual identity (as the designer of Ellie will have done, as anybody who wishes to address the issue of diversity in computing will have to do). I can assure you I played no part in inculcating them.
Well, it's multiple lines of data, but yes, it's just a simple copy/paste.
i think it's not enough:

one of the comments of the question here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499591/are-https-urls-enc...

says:
"It's probably a bad idea to put confidential data in the URL anyway. It will be displayed in the browser's address bad too, remember? People don't like it if their password is visible to anyone who happens to glance at the screen"

you can just display a form with an input field for the secret key, which will be HTTP POSTed and only THEN you should display the account's data (while the url doesn't disclose the secret key)
So, basically, it is about a much better heuristics, not a general algorithm.

Of course, with a specialized heuristics one could get a lot of pruning, but generally, if there is no way to come with a specialized heuristic when there is no way to have a jumping heuristic (one have to take one step at a time) and there is no way to look ahead for a specialized nodes, the A* is still the king.

But in AI almost everything is about finding a good-enough heuristic.
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I'm not comparing anything, merely reacting against any attempts to trivialize the very real need for a platform for anonymous dissent.

From the lives of the people involved to the stability of the democratic institutions themselves, those are very real and very high stakes. It would be extremely disingenuous and insulting to pretend that the intent of the article was to anonymously tweet "trump is a poop".
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Huh?

"Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?"

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
How much do you eat on a fasting day? You don't go zero calorie intake, or do you?
It's explained at the link, if only you could read.
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And I have to disagree with Fiskars. The axes are very good for chopping wood, but that's it. If you are serious backpacker, craftsman, carpenter etc, you wan't to use your axe in different ways too.

Well, never had a problem with the ones in our family. And IMO the fact that unlike everyother axe I know it just won't break and leave you without an axe in the middle has to count for something too.
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I've seen a possibly related issue with static electricity in a large building in PA that had 3 power feeds, after lightning we would have ethernet port problems.

I would suggest that you declare a 2am Thursday maintenance window and use a script to automatically reboot all the devices. This in combination with checking that you have a good separate ground wire connection at all antenna locations should pretty much fix it. The reboot cycles the power and should hopefully drain anything extraneous.
i didn't even think about that angle (being careful from third party logs for http GETs with sensitive info in the url).
thanks
Google "protected concerted action" and spend $75 on a consult with a labor law attorney. Some catches:

1. The protest has to involve more than one team member, and depending on circumstances that other person possibly can't be a manager.

2. The protest has to be defensibly about some kind of working conditions issue. You need a concrete, defensible ask.

3. You can in fact have your pay docked for not working, though you (probably) can't be fired. But remember, you're an FLSA exempt employee (if you're a developer), so you can make it difficult for them to dock your pay, too.

I probably wouldn't make the protest about higher wages.
While I don't wish you ill will, I do wish to remark that you have had it remarkably easy with this.

Source: 7 ISPs. In Africa. On unreliable power, broken fibre, people stealing your spectrum, etc.
They will need medical care. The government could decide to break the doctor's cartel at any moment. There's also pressure from the administrative side- hospitals would rather empower cheaper nurses and the technical side- it looks like radiology, long a super high paying specialty, may get eaten by automation.
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Yes! I will use my Kindle Keyboard until they discontinue it. The large page turn buttons are amazing. I am so surprised that they went away from these. Do people not realize how much better it is?
Am I the only one to think he had it coming?

I mean, the guy publicly boasts to have made hundreds of millions of dollars ripping off the entertainment industry. The US wouldn't be so aggressive if the guy hadn't been in hiding and taunting them for years.

As far as I know, Sean Parker didn't go to jail over Napster...
> can you imagine Trump explicitly criticizing the deep state?

He has many times. As examples: He has openly and frequently attacked the intelligence community over their conclusions about Russian hacking and election interference. He said the military was doing a terrible job, IIRC, in the ISIS fight.
While the example content of the article was slightly irreverent I think the bigger point is that there are people such as government workers and contractors, family members of them, etc, who want to talk about sensitive issues anonymously. No one has to disappear to CIA black sites for people to feel threatened, merely the threat of loosing your job is enough to silence many.
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Modern published "social science" as we know it is largely built on quicksand that's starting to be eroded. Get ready for a wild ride! :)
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> The riots were specifically the work of the "black bloc", a small group of left-anarchists.

The riots was hyperbole, there were not the only ones advocating for anti-globalization. So was Bernie Sanders, Chomsky and many others. There were not tear gassed for it regularly but the ideology was there.

> A situation where capital can freely move to the most favourable jurisdiction but labour cannot is politically unsustainable.

The point was it was traditionally the Koch brothers and the like who advocated "globalization" not anyone calling themselves "the left". So it seems there was a reversal on the topic which I think is interesting.

You mention libertarianism, but that was usually closer aligned to conservatism than "leftism" so to speak.

> In particular, conflating Millian "liberals" with Marxist "socialists" with whoever happens to be running a street demo is a bad idea.

Yes that is the issue. I think both are referred to as "the left". And at some point it is worth pointing out the difference and seeing that from a traditional point there isn't much left left in "the left" (pun intended), which I think is interesting and was trying to find a more detailed analysis of it.

It seems to me there was split around the late 90s where the divisions are more like between "faux-liberalism + corporatism" (this includes Democrats like the Clintons and Obama), "faux-conservatism + corporatism" (Bushes), "conservatist populism" (Trump and company), "traditional left" (Sanders, Chomsky).

The "faux" bit is because the liberalism vs conservatism is a veneer used to attract whatever is deemed popular at the time. Latest Clinton campaign and Obama used identity politics and immigration to sell corporatism. Bush (junior mostly) used religion to sell "conservatism".

Also it is rather interesting that Trump capitalized on a traditional leftist position of anti-globalization (anti-NAFTA, pulling out of TPP, talk about workers etc). He probably saw a void there with Democrats abandoning that ideology and moved in opportunistically to capitalize on it.
You don't eat. At all. Nothing. It's not that hard really, as mentioned, the first day is a bit hard, but after that you are no longer hungry anyway.. I have sometime a glass of fruit juice in the morning, coffee, and water.

The trick is to try to 'plan' ahead. Don't stock up on nice food, only do that on the friday!
>I prefer a nicely sandboxed and secured EME plugin over the insecure and clunkly silverlight pipelight trickery that was necessary before.

What's the difference between the two?

Why do you think the EME plugin is any better than (say) Flash?
Do you seriously believe there wouldn't be a vindictive response?
Quote of the day:

"Language implementation[s] become useless when they take formal properties to the extreme."

(https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19182#issuecomment-28107...)
As long as your cooking device subclasses AbstractHeatEmitter it should work - I tested two implementations, ElectricBurner and GasBurner and both worked very well.
Thanks for the answer. In the first reason to fast you are saying that people don't get omega 3 from corn fed steak. But when you fast you don't get that either? How is that a reason to fast then? I just feel like most people going into fasting because they have some health issue and try to fix it by doing fasting (I am not saying it does not work for them), I am trying to find someone who did not feel any problems and started fasting out of curiosity and see how it benefited them.

It's like having a bucket of water, when you eat it gets filled , then your body uses some of the water for energy. If you don't overeat the level of water in the bucket is always at the same, when you consistently overeat it overflows. When you fast - you can use the excess water you stored while overeating, it might be ok first couple years, but as since you are now eating less and your body uses water from a bucket more then you add to it - could it be that you will end up with an empty bucket at one point?
Anveo sells SMS capable numbers in a variety of countries. You have to pay for a month, but they are cheap. There are other VoIP providers as well. Two things to watch for though, not all sell SMS capable numbers, and some services check that the verification number is an actual mobile number...versus a VoIP number that can do SMS.
Check out the Casio F105W. Identical watch but uses an electroluminescent backlight instead of an LED to illuminate the display.
It seems like this would be easily defeated by a firewall, or even a simple hosts entry if the registration server is defined by domain name.
I can write the same blog post about onsite interview at Google, which was a horrible 6 hours marathon with people that copying to their notes all that you draw/write on whiteboard.

Questions/problems are pretty lame, btw. Do one geeksforgeeks problem a day, you'll be able to crack it in a year.
I don't know how you're managing to do that then. I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/Aroma-Housewares-ARC-914SBD-Cool-Touc...

and make perfect rice every time.

How did your cheap rice cooker sucked? Maybe you bought a "bad" cheap rice cooker :) I've had 5 different rice cookers so far, all different brands (moving countries...) and they never failed. It's a simple product really, people who try to sell you something expensive are mostly selling you fluff.
HuffPo should be disqualified as a source regarding Uber. As stated in the NYT piece, Arianna Huffington is on Uber's board. She has a clear interest in shining as positive a light as possible on Uber at all times.
So Emil talks about spending millions on PR to discredit their critics, and then his journalist friend writes an article discrediting a critic and contradicting everything he said. Sorry if I'm a bit skeptical.
Interesting. I'd love to read some more about keto -- could you recommend any good sources?
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> but I am not sure if during Ramadan you can't eat at all or just before the sun goes does?

You don't eat and drink anything (not even water) from dawn (not sunrise) until sunset. After sunset you can eat and drink as usual.
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>> I never found out the BEST way to share data between programs. In fact, I'm still looking. I think we all are.

>Copy-paste.

You may joke, but it's the most universally supported, and therefore the most likely to be available.
The difference is intent. Kim was intentionally violating American law to defraud American businesses and help American citizens commit crimes.

While I don't agree with the manner of his prosecution or extradition, let's all agree to the facts of the case. He didn't incidentally break US law, he fully intended to break US law to the detriment of US corporations and the benefit of US citizens.
No, you are not. But Schmitz's outcome is not going to be the same as Sean Parker's.
Working on a distributed file system (Quobyte), I'd say the order of complexity is file > block > object. Why? Because a drop-in replacement for a local file system also needs to be good at high-performance concurrent block IO, otherwise you wouldn't be able to run applications like databases.
Right, which is part of the industry. Who exactly is paying for all of that expensive studio time? The broke artist?
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> we tried relentlessly to contact our local utilities to gain access to their underground conduit and was never able to get someone on the phone or even much of a response.

I find that really hard to believe. Go to their offices and ask for the manager.

> I eventually got to the point where I was like, "Fk it, I'll do it on my own." Now we're looking at microtrenching, which is probably an even larger endeavor, but at least we'll own the conduit.

Building your own facilities is no joke. Unless you are made out of money, you'll be far better off putting more effort into renting existing ducts.
Mobile (and desktop) friendly:

> what happens when the Douglasses are no longer around?

> ...

> Here is how the plan works. Immediately upon learning of our deaths the executors of Dick's estate (his two highly computer literate kids) will post two files on our www.compmngr.com web site and will send out a broadcast email advising our customers how to download the files. The first file is a small standalone computer program called RegisterEvent.exe, which allows you to create your own registration files. So you won't have to register with Douglass Associates and you won't have to pay a registration fee. You can read more about RegisterEvent and how to use it below. The second file is a ZIP file containing all the source code for COMPMNGR and its supporting programs. This file will only be of interest to those few users who want to continue COMPMNGR development and who either know C++ programming or or willing to hire a C++ programmer.
And I'm not discussing changing the schema, but the data contained with the data structures.

When transforming the schema, you frequently have associated changes that you apply to transform the data from one form (in the 'before' schema) to another (in the 'after' schema). These transformations are code that can have bugs like any other.

In cases like these you can have data that is in the right format, but isn't correct, and can need a second change (to the data only) to correct it.
Personally, I think the maximum health benefit comes from zero calories. I'm able to function and work fairly well for the first 7 days. It's (typically) on day 8 that I start to feel weak and/or sick. I've gone to a twelfth day, and by then I feel like I have the flu. Which is interesting, because it taught something about a flu. I always thought a flu did direct damage, but now I think the worst thing about the flu is the interruption of the production of normal proteins that my body needs. And exactly the same thing must happen after 7 days without food -- the body is increasingly unable to make necessary proteins. It is interesting to me how much the feeling of a long fast resembles a flu.
Well I also enjoy cooking (a lot!), thus the need to 'reset' sometime. What I hate is counting calories, with the fasting I can pretty much eat as much as I like without having to worry, and when I feel I've done a bit too much of that, I fast and 'reset'.

With the years, I actually don't need it that much/that hard because it seems to have helped quite a bit with the amount of food I eat /anyway/ but I can still eat my way into a 32 ounce steak and not feel bad about it :-)

As far as family goes, when I fast, I go to my mancave during meals and do some tinkering so 1) they don't feel bad and 2) I don't smell anything!

Seriously, with just a little bit of preparation, it's surprisingly easy...
Hmm. This kind of stuff is not usually isolated. It's clear from Ms. Fowler's article that it wasn't isolated in her case.

It seems likely that a large company that treats trusted headquarters employees like this article described may also have ethical lapses in the way they treat field people. Mistreatment makes people angry.

In the waning days of the late unlamented Eastern Airlines, the airplane mechanics were angry. If you ride in an airplane maintained by angry people, you're placing great trust in their professionalism. You're trusting the line workers to leave their anger in their lockers.

In the same way, if you get into a car driven by an angry person, you're trusting that person to put his anger in the glove box. I'm sure most of Uber's drivers do that.

But isn't worker satisfaction a critical success factor for a business like Ubers?
Except this kind of behavior is endemic to the industry. Just about every woman I know in the industry has a story similar to this. All over Twitter, women are sharing their similar stories.

Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. It means you haven't paid attention.
Why don't just outsource all things?
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"Well actually" capital indeed. I must remember where I am :)

Admonishment was probably too strong on my part, but I read the lawyer comments as more, "You should..."
> What is this evidence? I have yet to hear about it.

They have evidence! They have the best evidence! A lot of smart people say so!

Seriously though, the "security community" seems to have solved the attribution problem by simply applying PR tactics to point to someone they suspect but have no proof against. It works because most people are not familiar with the problem domain.
Frequentists are Bayesians who use a uniform prior.
If we are going to go that route and using testosterone, I posit having more "testosterone" means standing up for what's right even if it means not getting the highest paying position.

> work a shit job

Right working as a developer at Uber with a high paying 6 figure job is now called a "shit job". I remember when collecting trash and mining was considered a "shit job", I guess we are from different generations...
There's no game, and your Neptune example does not apply.

Instead, you are making an accusation of racism; I claim, rightly, that for such an accusation solid evidence is needed and you, the person making the accusation, should provide it; and then you are refusing to provide such evidence and, now, claiming that providing such evidence would be a silly "game".

Grade school students know English and reasoning much better than that.
This clearly applies to all new cars as well. I wonder why they chose to frame it this way. Its not as if the auto industry was famous for paying for better treatment in the press or anything. This is what happens when you don't control what you own...
Hello,
a question about mapping on mobile,
How can one run mobile offline map using OSM with an open source library, their screenshots doesn't contain copyright, so am assuming their own solution.

thank you
How much time you spent on your side project?
I am wondering people with side projects how much time you spent on it
Also, how much is your job hours.