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> In retrospect, invading North Korea in 2003 would have been a far better choice than Iraq.

This sentence sounds very alien to me, am I alone?
It suggests that USA had to invade something, just for the sake of invasion.

Maybe the scars of the two WW are still a little too fresh where I live (France) for me to understand such a point of view. I'm trying hard to put an adjective on that mentality, but all that comes is alien, as in inhuman.
Also, shooting down rogue nation launches has value and any hand-wringing over 'destabilization' is fairly ridiculous as nukes have counter measures and are launched in numbers that make it impractical to shoot down in mass numbers. The US's very limited shield may stop Iran or N Korea from hitting a population center (Tokyo, Tel Aviv, etc) but won't stop nuclear war with China or Russia if a full launch happened.

There is no practical counter-measure over hundreds of ICBM's, sub launches, and bomber launches with many warheads per missile.
the police in most countries can do a lot of things civilians can't
Exactly.

"Most people have some concept of urban legends of exploding pressure cookers in their grandmother's kitchens," says Mr Qin.

Am in Europe, literally everyone has a pressure cooker, never heard about them actually exploding.
Have you read anything from experts in the area?

https://medium.com/@jeffreycarr/can-facts-slow-the-dnc-breac...
This might sounds naive, but I am genuinely wondering whether they are failing at this mission in the long run, though? They can hardly believe they're they are the only ones in control of these exploits. Can't the same exploits be used against them?
Can you share more details? How did they discover it?
What would "the whole truth" mean in this context? An explanation of how we got here, starting with the Big Bang?
This doesn't prove your original claim in any way.
Really cool stuff! I love the design. One bit of feedback I would give you though is to go easy on the CSS transitions, especially where the user has a target for interaction (navigation links, dragging and dropping...). Not that it's not visually interesting to keep them but makes it a little painful to have moving targets.
You're probably missing an important number there, not that I'm sure that it will make a difference, but:

How about longevity? one of those will probably hold that capacity for much longer than a Lithium battery, no?
> Does anyone else actually enjoy going to the grocery store or walking to a local place to pick up food?

i enjoy this also.

the problem with food delivery is a lot of the time they forget something, or are out of something, or don't give you enough of something, so you end up going to the store.

and delivered prepared food is always disappointing compared to cooking or going out. it also generates an absurd amount of waste.

the only thing i really get delivered are products i can't buy locally, or without sitting in traffic for an hour.
Only static content is served over Cloudflare.
All uploads/downloads are done directly with the storage servers.
Water heaters have many times the risk of exploding, and nobody blinks. Its strange how cookers got that reputation.
Use the Breville version, and you will not complain about the user interface. The whole thing is gorgeous.
I'm not American either, but if i recall correctly, it's different when dealing with copyright because when you share your work (they publish themselves on torrents) there's an expectation that the work comes with a license
Check your contact area. I notified you of an XSS issue.
it sounds like exploitation.
Wow, you are plugging your affiliate link hard on that iste.
We will have to see. I was curious about this myself, but amazon does not say categorically when it streams data to the cloud.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Note that it says "this is when Alexa streams your voice to the cloud", but it does not say categorically that this is the ONLY time Alexa streams your voice to the cloud. I found that a lot of news articles said Alexa only records your voice when you make a request, but Amazon itself offers a more limited promise.
I thought the idea was to use the difference in potential energy between the surface level and the sphere as the storage. ie, you'd store energy by emptying the sphere, and release energy by dumping water into it through a turbine. If that's the case, I don't get where the pressure comes into it.
I like this. I never really thought about it this way, but I'm much more okay with long functional methods rather than long mutating method
That's part of trying to monetize it ... unsuccessfully, bu t I agree with your observation, I should take it down. They way it works right now is misleading.
Personally I love buying groceries. Sure it's a pain when you're tired and your fridge is empty but every visit to Wegmans is like a trip to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory - at least until I see the bill.

I just as much enjoy shopping at Aldi. There is a perverse glee in stuffing a shopping cart with enough food for two weeks and - like every time before - watching the bill fail to surpass $100. It's quite a kick in the pants to stay focused on budgeting.

Shopping for food that I put in my body also reminds me that I am alive.
My feeling - based on reading only publicly-available resources - is that China and Russia rely more on more traditional "HUMINT" (Human Intelligence), while the US has come to rely more and more and "SIGINT" (Signals Intelligence).
no longer choosing the best looking candidate can be counter productive, as you could hire someone with bad personal hygiene and compromise the whole team, for example.
I couldn't say for sure. The cynic in me wants to point to the amount of money in software VC, but I think PG is more principled than that. Perhaps it's related to the fact that YC provides a lot more in terms of advice and guidance than cash, and then passes startups on to seed/series-A investors.
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yep, I even think I made $3.5 in the last ... 6 months from it :-)
Any executable is vulnerable to DLL hijacking, they're just looking for easier targets that load known DLLs (with known function signatures) from their own folders (NOT system folders).

I'm assuming the goal is to minimise detection by what they call PSPs (av / security products)

This is not a flaw within notepad++
Give Fitbit another shot some time! We've focused on significantly improving the hardware quality with the latest generation of products, and they're much less likely to break. They also all have interchangeable bands for the case that they do.
> saying Russia has "vibrant" criticism of Putin's regime

No, he didn't. I know The Guardian said he did, but they mislead readers so badly that the interviewer they were quoting specifically called them out for bad journalism. Wikileaks has gone off the rails lately, but the "vibrant" thing is from a hitpiece that's inaccurate in almost every way.

Assange said "In Russia, there are many vibrant publications, online blogs, and Kremlin critics such as [Alexey] Navalny are part of that spectrum." This wasn't part of a statement about Russia not needing dissent like Wikileaks, but about whether Wikileaks was competent to provide it. He continued "in Russia there are competitors to WikiLeaks, and no WikiLeaks staff speak Russian, so for a strong culture which has its own language, you have to be seen as a local player" and made similar comparisons to China and East Timor.

The question was about Wikileaks efficacy compared to Russian activists, not whether Putin suppresses critics. Note that Assange cited Navalny, a man Putin has put in prison. That shows pretty clear awareness of what criticism means in Russia, but The Guardian pulled the quote without the followup or example.

Worse, The Guardian also cited Assange as offering "praise for Trump" in the interview. That's flatly dishonest - no such statement appears, they just claimed it did. When asked, he described Trump as "gathering around him a spectrum of other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities".

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of...
You can estimate people/hour by working out people/car * cars/hour. If you assume that Hyperloop uses 90-second headways, you need 25 people per dispatched train to meet just 1000 people per hour. I think that's higher than any proposal I've seen for a Hyperloop car.

In contrast, a regular commuter train can carry ~1000 people per train, and you need to dispatch them at 3 minute intervals (20 trains/hour) to move 20,000 people per hour. A single lane of road traffic will carry ~2000 cars per hour. Assuming single-occupant vehicles, that's ~2000 people/hour.
So also are /usr/bin/{cd,[,echo,pwd,fg,..etc} a lot of them having subtle differences with their corresponding shell builtins. Most of the time the differences are not worth the hassle to remember, unless you somehow end up on a system with a broken filesystem (for example where /lib or /usr/lib is destroyed) and need to rescue stuff.
CIA needs to work with the tech community to patch the vulnerabilities, and the US business community for awareness of the vulnerabilities. The cat is out of the bag and CIA's mission is very much consistent with a direct defense effort to ensure foreign powers and organized criminal entities cannot use the CIA's compromised assets against US citizens.
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A few points to point out: from your post, it sounds like Amazon never applies for h1b which is not true. They just don't prefer to use it for a person who is not already in USA. They do apply for the visa where it makes sense.

If they chose to go h1b route, they will have to apply for a visa and then wait for 6 months before the person can actually work(and the developer could still choose to not join thereby making the visa application useless). Clearly, going through Canada is a better option for them.
The only way to prevent this is through valid content removal requests sent in through the contact form.

As mentioned in a previous comment, since uploaders aren't rewarded for downloads this shouldn't become too big of an issue to handle.
I'm pretty okay with wikileaks not releasing hundreds of zero day exploits into the wild en mass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease#Controver...
I bought an Instant Pot about 5 years ago because I saw some good recipes and a suggestion on a Paleo blog. The price on Amazon seemed reasonable at the time, so I figured "why not." It turned out to be an incredible purchase. I've grown to hate single use devices that take up space in my kitchen (ugh, blenders, crock pots), but the Instant Pot is so versatile that it earns its keep.

I've long since abandoned that whole Paleo thing, but the Instant Pot still makes great meals. I don't need a crock pot in addition to this. It makes amazing pulled pork and carnitas. I can throw a whole chicken in there and have it falling off of the bone in less than an hour. I can brown beef in it before adding other ingredients for a good stew or chili. It makes really good hard-boiled eggs (though I've recently discovered eggs in my sous-vide and will never cook them another way). I don't know how the Instant Pot brand compares to other electric pressure cookers, but I'm 100% satisfied with mine.

I liked it so much that I bought my parents one for Christmas two years ago and upgraded mine from the previous model to the newer model on last year's Prime Day mentioned in the article. The newer model solved my one gripe with the previous model (setting the lid on the counter was awkward when taking it off).

I recommend these things to everybody. Whether you enjoy cooking or not, the Instant Pot makes cooking meals easier.
1. For a small start-up, this seems to be the norm. I'd be very surprised to find a company if that size with "normal" working hours, unless perhaps they're already profitable and have a secure market lead.

2. You don't actually need a lot of progress when you only have a couple of devs. Process is a compensation mechanism to deal with the complexity of large teams and / or mature products. A really great product leader on a v1 product can effectively run things with nothing more than a burndown list.

3. Depending on where you are in your career, this may be normal. It generally takes newer devs a longer amount of time to get ramped up when starting something new.
I think he meant to say he isn't limiting them to 100kbs and 100mb (drastic limits).
> Now, every final candidate that makes it that far works for the company for three to eight weeks on a contract basis, doing real tasks alongside the people they would actually be working with if they had the job.

> The goal, says Mullenweg, is not to have those candidates finish a product or do a set amount of work but for a quick and efficient assessment of whether it would be a mutually beneficial relationship.

> To keep it simple, Automattic pays a standard $25 an hour, whether the candidate was hoping to be an engineer or the chief financial officer.

How could you ever hire someone who already had a job? Who would leave an existing job to do a tryout for 3-8 weeks for $25/hour?
Yeah, took me like 3 hours :)
Music and acting are not "subjective all the way down". They are technical skills which some people spend years honing to an incredible pitch. There's a difference there, but this isn't it.
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This definitely has the potential to be the "killer's name written in blood" of the 21st century.
I created https://github.com/onnlucky/hotel for a few different reasons.

1) I wanted to see how far you can go by making every language concept first class, because only first class things can be an abstractions.

2) But another big motivation was that languages usually grow towards building large systems in. I wanted every tradeoff to go to the human side, making it more suitable for beginners. For example, 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3, slower by not using native floating point numbers, but much more humane. Similar motivation to remove the import statements. Or no difference between object fields or methods, e.g. string.length is the same as string.length().
there is no oversight because it relies on the character of humans, who are weak and prone to folly.

There is no paper trail for this abuse. This is a system that should not exist.
Try going to a grocery store with kids. It's not as fun as advertised. That said, before kids I loved going to the store.
>Invading North Korea in 2003 would have been an unimaginably bad mistake.

Probably. It's just infuriating that the Western world has allowed the entire situation to persist for so long. It's 2017 and there's people who are born, live and die in labor camps with conditions straight out of the Holocaust.

>This assumes that the US would be able to occupy North Korea long enough to create order.

I often wonder what occupation of North Korea would be like. Are there actually a sizable number of brainwashed individuals that would fight to the death? Or would their populace be largely sympathetic in face of new information, considering their past treatment? My gut feeling is the latter, considering what happens when western media is smuggled into NK. These people literally risk a fate worse than death to see a glimpse of the outside world.

Either way, an occupation would be deeply weird in so many ways. I'd love to see whatever post-invasion psyops playbook the U.S. has prepared, and any associated assessments. Probably classified though.

>Be careful what you wish for...

Not wishing per se, just operating under the assumption that if we had to have a war to satisfy various monied interests and their war profiteering ambitions, North Korea would have likely been a superior choice over Iraq from a humanitarian and global security perspective.
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I have some thoughts for you as someone who's done this before. I used to run a file hosting site called MediaCrush with a buddy of mine. It was moderately successful, but we ended up shutting it down. I later switched to a file host called pomf.se, which eventually was shut down as well. I wrote a blog post that sums up my thoughts on public file hosting:

On the profitability of image hosting websites - https://drewdevault.com/2014/10/10/The-profitability-of-onli...

I suggest you read it. In a nutshell: don't.

The problem is growth. It will quickly get too expensive and you will not have nearly enough revenue to support it. I guarantee you it will happen.

Currently I run a file hosting service with controlled growth. Accounts are not available to the public - you have to apply for one, and I approve them conservatively (130 approved, 137 rejected users as of writing). All users are also expected to donate. I think all new file hosting sites should take link rot seriously and if they don't it's a net negative on the internet. I hate that if I look at a forum post written >5 years ago, odds are all of the images will be broken.

If anyone wants an account on my website, I might be inclined to approve a few today: https://sr.ht
How does it muddle the waters? People are saying "no big deal I expect my agency to defend me from foreign threats", and it turns out they have been used against domestic do-gooders.

It seems incredibly relevant.
> Every day, in doctors’ offices across the US—as well as in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden, in 80 countries and on every continent

Amsterdam is not a country. The country is called The Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital.
WikiLeaks Vault7 Year Zero 2017

https://archive.org/details/WikiLeaksYearZero2017V1.7z

Passphrase is SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
> I'm having not by banging my head against them all the time, but from relaxing, walking, running, biking, shopping, reading books, and all the other "non-productive" things that normal people do.

Exactly! This is why I prefer working remotely. If I'm stuck on a problem, I can do all of the above whenever I want. My version of zen is to go to the local basketball court and shoot jump shoots.

Since I started working from home, I work 15-20 hours less. I'm much more productive without all the distractions and I don't have an 8 hour commute gobbling up my time. I can't get into podcasts or audible.com when I'm stuck in traffic :(
We'll try to work on this.
More importantly you can enable the encrypted upload feature for sensitive files if you do not trust the storage servers.
bad news for customs brokers
Its great news for those who have not served time but have become homeless due to a complete inability to become employed.

No matter how thin you slice the piece of cheese there's always going to be a top half and a bottom half and agonizing over the suffering result of intentional misbehavior, ignores the larger pool of suffering experienced by those who never did anything wrong, other than maybe not be born in the right place, or to the right parents, or the right skin color, or the right gender, etc.

I'm not going to wring my hands at the injustice committed against a felon because some law school grad who never committed a felony can now get a law job, solely because a felon can't.

I find it hilarious social commentary that the average HN commenter commiserates with felons but not with the lower 99% of the working population.
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of course, but it would be even harder to get them to use any other language other than C or C++.
I think you mean adjective, not a metaphor.
Right, though my assumption is the relate statements are in the context of the comment I replied to, that being an individual using only systems owned by them. As such, beyond my prior comment in this thread, I'm not aware of any law related to an individual that would bar them from deleting data at will assuming to legal request to do so was expected or in place.

Opening up to any situation beyond that would be dependent on the context of that situation.

If I am missing something, please explain explicitly what you are referencing.
Manual deletion doesn't work
A decade old but not much of the underlying research has dramatically shifted. http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMra072023
On Fedora Linux, '/usr/bin/time -v <command>' rather than -l.
Kind of snaked its way around there. I give it a 5/7 for execution.
Thank you, I was not aware of this book. I am currently working my way through the Counterfactuals and Causal Inference (2nd), and I would definitely recommend this book (arguably over JP's Causality) to those who are looking for a comprehensive, introductory text.
> When I asked if we could implement more structure and discussion around these expectations, I was basically told we don't have time.

There is a subtle art to managing-up, that is managing the boss. Start the conversation by asking him how he thinks things are going. Share your concern that the team may not be using it's time effectively. Pitch the idea again to try Agile Methods as an experiment to work more efficiently. He may have limited experience or poor exposure to working in true Agile environments.

This HBR piece on Embracing Agile is a solid suggested read > https://hbr.org/2016/05/embracing-agile

Finally, start making 6pm your COB time, just close-up. Say "Gotta run, have a good night!" And Go!
Actually the type system catches that particular mistake:

error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> src/main.rs:5:6
|
5 | if x = 1 {
| ^^^^^ expected bool, found ()
|
= note: expected type `bool`
= note: found type `()`

error: aborting due to previous error

error: Could not compile `playground`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.
"and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones." - Sounds very Orwellian
You are right, this is basically a gravity energy storage. It's the same idea as moving a 14m3 blob of water 100m up and down. Unfortunately, gravity storages have really bad energy densities.

Let's see.

E = mgh

E is the energy, m the mass, g the gravitational acceleration, h the difference in height.

m = 14e3kg

g = 10m/s2

h = 100m

E = 14e6J = 3.9kWh

The only gravity storages that have been proved to be scalable so far are hydroelectric. And they have huge lakes behind them.
I really don't understand why Zenefit's script was such a big deal. Have you ever had to sit through a bunch of slides and be forced to spend x hours staring at something you can speed read through in minutes? The regulations didn't care about testing real knowledge, just time spent on the module. Anyone with a slight bit of naughtiness will hack around this.
Nah, Robins started (asterisk) all this causal/propensity-scored/pretend-experimental mania.

It's what drove me back to hard interventional experiments and eventually to adaptive clinical trial design.

(Asterisk): ok more like Pearl started it and Robins made it more practical with doubly robust designs etc. I still find most of the mechanics rather shady.
And so the age of WebAssembly begins...
Related article that I enjoyed was "Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t" http://legacy.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine
Well now I don't know who to believe.
These kinds of articles are dangerous. It doesn't help that the author's livelihood comes from treating people who believe they have this illness.

Good link:
"... which noted the diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is used by a few physicians despite a lack of "reproducible or convincing scientific evidence", leading the authors to describe this diagnosis as "the latest in a series of syndromes that have been postulated in an attempt to attribute medically unexplained symptoms to particular infections."
I'm using graphviz for that.
This reminds me of Morgellan's disease. Insisting something is real doesn't make it real. I don't know anything... can someone share a more evidence heavy article from the same side of the argument?

The medical profession doesn't just turn it's back on treatable (e.g. profitable) diseases.