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There isn't a narrative it's an attempt to derail a narrative the people in charge of NYT don't like. Trump supporters are pushing the narrative of "Trump VS the Deep State!". So people will google "Deep State" and NYT is using it's cred with liberals to try and shape their opinion.

See: https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=Deep%20State

The same thing happened in WaPo and NYT with HRCs e-mail server. At some point the story is out there, your supporters are going to google it. You need to get a source they trust to report on it otherwise they'll end up somewher you don't control. So you report it and sail just as close as you can to "nothing to see here nothing to worry about!".

What does this article actually do:

Right away appeal to authority and answer the question "Does the US have a Deep State?":
"Not quite, experts say..." Phew! For a minute there I was worried but some random expert on Egypt got interviewed by the NYT and can say with clarity there is no shadowy cabal of three letter agency people pulling the strings! Lucky he could tell so easily really.

The rest of the article is trying to drift away from the idea of a secret cabal and instead push the idea that a "Deep State" is nothing more than the standard civil service in tension with their elected leaders. Yea sure.
Yes, if you application was coded to only work with a specific version of the kernel.
Ah, you're completely right - for some reason I had it in my head it was about laptops. Even the title was a big reveal.. Oh well.
In addition to the points made by others, even when a leak is completely true, it can still be misleading.

Huge organizations are complicated. If you rank everything they do by how bad it looks, exclude from it everything that reflects poorly on someone other than your target and then release only the worst 99th percentile of what's left, you're basically lying even if you're technically telling the truth. The sample is intentionally biased and unrepresentative.

Because people make decisions relativistically. If you only hear about the flaws of one side, it makes that side appear to be the worse side regardless of whether or not they actually are.
> A union representative is the next logical step.

Unions can have benefits sometimes, but handling issues related to harassment is not one.

> They will be able to represent you anonymously at first, and bring a collective action against the perpetrator if there have been multiple incidents against multiple victims.

Or, if the perpetrator is a peer but holds a position of power within the union, they may simply decide to ignore you, as HR did in this case.

If you speak out against the union rep's decision (such as by writing a blog post like this), and the union's charter has a clause prohibiting public opposition to the union (which is legal and very common), then you could get your membership terminated. This not only means you lose your current job, but you could effectively get blacklisted across the industry if there are no non-union shops. Unlike shared employer blacklists, which are illegal, this is perfectly legal because the union isn't sharing a blacklist - they just so happen to have a monopoly on hiring and also have the legal right to refuse you membership.

Ironically, it would be illegal for the company to fire you in this position, but unions have far fewer restrictions on whether or not they can deny or terminate membership, even in retaliation.
I think autonomous trains per-se could work, but even then it would be worthwhile to employ the 1 driver that would even just sit there, as lives of 100s of people are at stake.

There are always "exceptions" to a ride, where a human driver / operator would help, such as a person hitting the emergency button because of a medical condition, violence at the carriage, someone's hand got stuck between the doors etc.

What should actually be is not autonomous trains as we envision autonomous cars, but rather sophisticated signalling and emergency braking automation.

In this day and age, I can't see how come a train is allowed to drive past a red light, depart a stop without supervisor permission or scheduled departure, exceed allowed speed etc.
These are very simple things infrastructure can enforce and I don't understand how come it has not been done yet.

I guess it has been done in some train networks. My personal familiarity is with the Melbourne (Australia) train network, and it's very old and untypical to a relatively modern western city.
Maybe it's different where you're from, but here in Holland my experience is that typical 'edgy' behavior is pretty much exactly the same as what he did. Growing up, even as far back as primary school, we would do the Hitler salute, quote the man, or make jokes about jews or gas chambers. Other popular edgy topics include loud homophobia, and ironically anal fixation. It was mostly the guys who did this, but it was rampant nonetheless (and IMO not indicative of deep-seated isms).

As an 'adult', I've become less offensive/edgy in part because I just don't care anymore, and in part because I think these kinds of jokes are not worth the potential emotional distress they can cause, nor the fact that they might normalize 'real' racism.

Even so, among my inner circle WW2-themed jokes are still popular, including overt endorsement of the Nazis and gas chamber jokes. As far as I can tell none of us are anti-semites or fascists.

In my experience Sweden is very similar to Holland in our attitudes to WW2 and our sense of humor about it. And if you consider that PewDiePie's audience is significantly younger than he is, it doesn't strike me as suspicious that he'd make repeated edgy pro-nazi jokes, just like pretty much all young men and man-children that I know.
This is old paper giving outline of neural network modeling. Modeling neural networks is more general subject than artificial neural networks.

The same author has newer book online

Theory of Neural Information Processing Systems (2005)
A.C.C. Coolen, R. Kuehn, and P. Sollich
http://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/AlexanderSherstnev...
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My SR60's broke that plastic yoke -- I wound up replacing the part. They lasted ~20 years until the Y junction of the headphone cord started having intermittent faults.

I was going to replace the cord with a detachable mic + volume cable, but wound up just getting a set of SR-80s.

Sound wise, I think the high end Sennheisers have better balance and are a bit more comfortable. A little clearer treble, not as heavy bass. But either way, they're really good for the price.
Have you tried it out? It worked on my system.
Obviously whoever designed it didn't get the 'good' acid.

Had he gotten the real shit, it would have been a musical instrument... with wheels, which also microwaves... inside and outside... Because that's how you get to the aliens.

Who wouldn't want his oven to roll around the house improvising some trippy music while the meal is being heated ? While at it, why not also vacuum clean the house ? Just hit the knob a magical 4 times ..

You've got the wonder machine right there. I mean hello? Whatever happened to creativity these days ?

Experience tells me I have to disclaim this: yes, of course it's a joke.
I've found some previous posts about bad customer service at Scaleway:

https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/55kiqc/be_aware...

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/50thne/scaleway_ste...

Can anyone tell how reliable they are?
I do - when it is for a food delivery. If I order pizza or something, I'd tip something small to the person delivering it.

I'm from Belgium, so we do not have a tipping culture either, and in many cases it is not that needed, but always welcome (restaurants). I live in a university city, so many of the waiters are students and as having been a student in a similar position, I know that they do not tend to have money to waste so the tips are a nice extra.

In general I am happy that we do not have a strong culture around it like in the US, because then you'd have to find out how much to tip etc, which would probably be uncomfortable for me.
Don't think you are right on this...

PS : putting this here for those who may be misinformed
I've had several opportunities to do work as a side gig, and I can tell you that it is very difficult to do. Complex tasks as part-time work does not work well. I am not exactly sure why, it could be that humans only have so much bandwidth for problem solving.
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I'm no Trump fan, but for impeachment you need evidence of laws being broken. Of the things you listed only the first could conceivably lead to that.

Demand an independent investigation first.
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True, but thats the thing, the article kind of contradicts itself, because Apache should respond faster.
I'm not sure I agree with your premise that Russia was only involved to undermine the legitimacy of the election. Do you think Russia didn't care which candidate won? That they don't prefer Trump (who has links with and has made overtures to Russia during the campaign) over Clinton (who has taken a tough stance on Russia)?

It is ridiculous to suggest that people should stop demanding that the Russia connection be investigated because it would be playing into Russia's hand. If anything, not investigating will keep the questions swirling, undermining the legitimacy of Trump's presidency.
Salaries might be set per position per restaurant, but go have a look at the staff at your local high-end steak place. Then go visit your local Chile's/Applebees/Fast Casual Dining place.

Which has a more attractive staff? Which do you suppose makes more in tips? (Or would in salary if straight salaried?)

I believe that in a straight salary system that more attractive people would be well served (no pun intended) to seek jobs at higher-end restaurants; I believe that's already happened to some extent. One table turn could tip $100 or more at a high-end place today. That will be partially shared with the multiple staff serving the table, but it's still going to be a very strong hourly rate.
There are also communities of hobbyists that track radioactivity with custom or home-brew stations. While less sophisticated in what they measure they can be an another point of reference. One of the oldest around is http://radioactiveathome.org/map/ another is http://www.uradmonitor.com/
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To be fair, Erdogan's was something of a "countercoup" (assuming, of course, that he didn't somehow prompt the initial attempt himself; which is possible, but unlikely). We absolutely agree that the result was the same as an outright coup.
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Depends on what it is, either semver for things where backward compatibility is necessary or just "version 1, version 2 etc." where a new version is a big enough change you should consult the documentation to know what is going on.
Maybe related: https://www.york.ac.uk/maths/staff/peter-lee/
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> This reminds me of a text editor I've seen linked here a while ago; it was written by one guy, and he'd been selling it and maintaining it for something like 30 years (and he still got new customers!). I don't remember the name of the program or the website.

Probably this: http://www.lugaru.com/
> I pointed out that I was publishing a book with O'Reilly, speaking at major tech conferences, and doing all of the things that you're supposed to do to have an "upward career trajectory", but they said it didn't matter and I needed to prove myself as an engineer"

That's funny bit
The reasoning in your first two paragraphs are sound in that a balance is necessary in government adapting to research, and that research being honest to begin with. It takes two.

But your last part:

> the fact remains that when the civil service is overtly opposed to their political masters, good government becomes impossible. It's one thing to have a bungling fool in charge of the ship of state; it's quite another to have a bungling fool who knows his crew are in the process of staging a mutiny.

I'm not sure what you mean to say by this. I mean, your statement could technically be true, but what are you suggesting? The phrasing indicates that the civil service has made good government impossible, while I think most would agree with the reverse. If honest facts from civil service has become "partisan", then the problem is entirely elsewhere.
Long post warning - this is just a perspective about shitty HR in the vein of this post, not sexism, like the original Fowler post.

Late last year at 10am on a Thursday, I got a call asking if I wanted to interview for a HR position with Uber in Australia. He wanted the position filled ASAP, so we organised an interview for that evening.

I had already accepted an offer from another company for a summer internship in software dev, an area I was actually interested in, but I was beguiled by the Uber brand and was practically willing to give up a lot to work for them as a result. I am not interested in HR by any stretch, and believe that HR staff are better put to use removing staples from about-to-be-recycled paper or other more productive ends.

I 'passed' the initial interview and was asked to do the following:

- Draft a cold email to a potential hire, with the goal to fill an existing vacancy in the company;

- Pass an extensive, three-hour 'data analytics' test (see: basic-intermediate data manipulation and analysis in Excel) hosted on HackerRank. This was actually fairly challenging because you're purposefully time-poor throughout the test;

- Create a PowerPoint presentation outlining a plan to target university grads. This was also challenging since if I was given a template with pre-made slide designs, it would be pretty easy. But I designed a slide deck from scratch completely in line with the Uber design guidelines, including typeface, color and other design requirements, on top of my recruitment strategy;

- Trawl through their current Uber Careers website and list as many possible ways that it could be improved.

So I was given this Thursday night. He wanted the tasks done asap, but I told the recruiter that I had an assignment due Tuesday, and that it would be quite a crunch. He 'relented' and gave me until Sunday night. As I write this, I realise that he was unabashedly using my enchantment with the company to his favour.

I did nothing that entire weekend but work on those items, and handed them all in Sunday evening, right on time, to the detriment of my assignment. I found out later (through a contact in the company, not from the recruiter) that I scored over 80% in the online exam, and that all the other items were very well received.

Despite this, I never received anything back from the recruiter at all. Nothing except a boilerplate rejection email, featuring photo of Diversity Hire #1 and #2 laughing over coffee and 'Thank you for your application. However, we cannot proceed with your application at this time...' The recruiter insisted that they tried to call me (again, I heard this through the contact) but lo and behold, despite being glued to my phone for over a week, my phone didn't ring once. The incredible disrespect I felt from this experience will mean that I'll never apply to them for any role, ever.

Tl;dr - my perspective of Uber is that they are entitled to your best work, and have no intention to reciprocate.
One possible outcome of Clinton winning would have been a fracturing of the Democratic party into the Sanders wing and the Clinton camp. An unpopular president with a fractured party would have been fine for opponents of the US.
If you just read the title, you'll still conclude that the article describes a real event

"Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say"

Even if we now know it's a lie.

I'm trying to figure out what would be the proper way to modify the title to show it's wrong and to still provide the readers the insight that the paper claimed something that was debunked?
Literally the third sentence in your link provides support for GP's position:

"The employer is prohibited from using an employee’s tips for any reason other than as a credit against its minimum wage obligation to the employee (“tip credit”)"
Thanks for the recommendation! I think I was looking at that exact grinder, but was deterred by a review that said it obliterated everything to too fine a grind for French press. I'll definitely have to pick one up.
> My favorite story about DRM is how even Netflix's CEO would rather not use DRM

On which I call bullshit. They still use it for their own productions and series.
Never share without a fee then? Not quite the world I want to live in...
Give it a rest, man. Don't like how we roll in the US? Don't come. Don't want to tip? Then don't do it.

If you want to live in the US, then assimilate. Either do it or dont -- but please stop this pedantic "how-the-rest-of-the-world" works perspective.
english is my second language, can you explain why I've is wrong in this context?
Still not logical. They could have simply done both. Put on github due to popularity, and then mirror the repo anywhere they like to avoid blocking.

>We don't want to force anyone to use it, though. For
>Patoline itself, you can download source code tarballs
It is claimed 'fiber' by the companies, and everyone pays because of the natural monopoly of utilities, where everyone pays for the best service available regardless of how good it is, because everything available is not good enough
I think there's a fair point to be made that some gender norms around friendliness in women are often misconstrued by men as flirtatious. Or put another way, women are expected to behave in a more "flirty" way, or they're seen as cold and bitchy. But if they do act more flirty, they're seen as "leading men on".

I think the technical term for this is "Some Grade A Bullshit", but it's been a while since I read a sociology textbook.

None of this really has anything to do with the case at hand though.
For most recipes, totally. I think many pressure cooker recipes don't involve other pans / the stove, which is convenient.
EME should be a permissions, just as much as asking for the users microphone and web-camera. Iirc when Firefox caved in on this whole CDM thing, they made it something the website needs to request access to before it can be activated.

I see no technical reasons for why Chrome shouldn't be able to do the same.

I guess Google has an active interest in promoting DRM, and as such making DRM cumbersome to use is counter to that goal.
Damn, not even a decade of keeping their activation servers online by Autocad for their own software? That is ridiculous, it'd be like Microsoft shutting down their infrastructure for Windows 7 activations today.

I feel at a certain point, if you've sold software that calls home and you are unwilling to maintain the servers and there are still people using it, you should hand it off to the Internet Archive or a similar org so they can run it. Leaving users stranded with no hope of using software they're familiar with, have paid for, and have supported is just a bad move.

Moves like what Autocad did to you are why large companies are using libre software, if upstream dies for some reason, your business won't click off tomorrow.
I am starting to use Kicad and FreeCAD in more and more projects for this very reason: I want to be able to open my projects 30 years from now.

Sure, the commercial tools are slightly more competent and have a nicer interface (although the FOSS tools are improving with every release). But there is no guarantee AutoCAD doesn't go bankrupt next week or changes business next year or is bought by Apple and becomes the next Logic.
In my opinion learning new things will benefit in long run.
Trad two knob microwaves are still available and usually the cheapest eg http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Browse?s=Pr...

so I blame consumers for buying the ones with the silly buttons.
The buyer is usually not the end user.

For example, a landlord is biased towards purchasing appliances that looks complex so they can show off all the extra "features" to clients.
Glennon spoke about this work at a CATO event: https://www.cato.org/events/national-security-double-governm...
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Or for the Linux kernel to settle down and have a stable ABI finally.
I use Chrome for when I need the dev-tools and nothing else. I don't like to promote evil browsers.
Characters like Trump and Farage largely owe their success to 24 hour news channels and their insatiable appetite for soundbites and headlines - those guys are non-stop controversy generators and are, as such the ideal match for rolling news.
It's good they at least put a notice at the top but that doesn't excuse them. This is the kind of stuff Gawker does and was heavily criticized for, running a story without checking the facts because you want to be first or it fits your "narrative".

I'm not sure what else it could be without it being much worse reason.
"American media" consists mostly of the copying and pasting of press releases (sometimes called "anonymous leaks"), and Erdoğan is the only one left to release those. They won't have another narrative until someone in the "Deep State" decides he's next on the chopping block... probably shortly after Russia bribes him into blocking fossil fuel pipelines from Saudi to Europe.
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I am actually looking for the textual content, free to be copied, at least for personal use. Peeking at the source code would be great, too.
Yes, all the time. I read a book called refactor your wetware, and despite the patronizing title, it's about how our brain processes things in 'real time' but also in a sort of longer term, background data crunching sort of way and we should take advantage of this.

Have you ever you've ever had a problem you just couldn't solve, that was really hairy and beat you up all night that was suddenly trivial and obvious when you woke up the next morning? Same process, apparently. Basically your background subconscious or a lower level part of your brain goes and picks through all your knowledge that isn't readily available to your consciousness.
Really, it does work 100% for me. I just tried it quite a few times. The only way I can make a three-finger drag register as a two-finger scroll is when the third finger is actually not on the trackpad.
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Belgian here - I do tip but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, it's not part of our culture. And I leave mostly small tips, nothing comparable to the US.
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Not 'a few' wouldn't be available but even less than there are now. Then even more people will complain about the small catalog of movies and series on Netflix and leave their service.
I am not sure about the American catalog but the one in the netherlands is not so large.
The measurements were taken before this incident in France occurred.
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Yeah, I have a few OrangePi PC2 boards that I built a kernel 4.10-rc6 image for, they seem to work fine (tho no working HDMI in my build) though I need to test them more. I'm planning to use them for a Ceph cluster, with four JMS567 USB 3.0 to SATA bridges ($2ea) on each SBC.

I figure with 160MB/s of I/O and gigabit ethernet, it'll be able to push files at a decent clip, dunno if it will max out my gig internet though.
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