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It's interesting where he talks about having an imaginary meter on your forehead and moving the needle to (P)ositive or (N)egative. He explains this with a nice example:

> When I write, “Bob was an asshole,” and then, feeling this perhaps somewhat lacking in specificity, revise it to read, “Bob snapped impatiently at the barista,” then ask myself, seeking yet more specificity, why Bob might have done that, and revise to, “Bob snapped impatiently at the young barista, who reminded him of his dead wife,” and then pause and add, “who he missed so much, especially now, at Christmas,” – I didn’t make that series of changes because I wanted the story to be more compassionate. I did it because I wanted it to be less lame.

Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) suggests a similar exercise for writers [1].

> From this point forward – at least for the next half year – you may not use “thought” verbs.

> You can’t write: Kenny wondered if Monica didn’t like him going out at night…”

> Instead, you’ll have to Un-pack that to something like: “The mornings after Kenny had stayed out, beyond the last bus, until he’d had to bum a ride or pay for a cab and got home to find Monica faking sleep, faking because she never slept that quiet, those mornings, she’d only put her own cup of coffee in the microwave. Never his.”

Writing "Bob was an asshole" or "Kenny wondered if Monica didn’t like him going out at night." is lazy writing and stops us from exploring the characters and getting to know them.

In the same post, Chuck says:
"Thinking is abstract. Knowing and believing are intangible. Your story will always be stronger if you just show the physical actions and details of your characters and allow your reader to do the thinking and knowing. And loving and hating."

[1] https://litreactor.com/essays/chuck-palahniuk/nuts-and-bolts...
> they (and only they) get to still track users

Wrong. https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components/ads/amp...
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provided similar functionality since 2007. The corresponding component is called NoBot. http://www.ajaxcontroltoolkit.com/NoBot/NoBot.aspx

"NoBot is a control that attempts to provide CAPTCHA-like bot/spam prevention without requiring any user interaction. This approach is easier to bypass than an implementation that requires actual human intervention, but NoBot has the benefit of being completely invisible."

Works like a charm even now, 10 years later.
Any technical limitation you put on your laptop/phone/tablet/etc/etc/etc will easily be circumvented by yourself.

Give a close friend $1000 and tell him to keep $100 for each time you find yourself failing at your task. Of course this relies on you being truthful to yourself/friend but since it's on your initiative anyway, it might work.

No idea if this works.
>The whole reason permanganate is added in the first place is twofold: it oxidizes simple organics all the way to carbon dioxide (think nail polish remover, denatured alcohol), and it oxidizes soluble ferrous iron to insoluble ferric iron. The byproduct of the oxidation, manganese dioxide, is insoluble and if balanced correctly the treatment does not increase manganese levels in the water.

Whenever I learn something like this, I always appreciate chemistry a little more. That is absolutely fascinating IMO.

The first thing that comes to mind is what the person who came up with the idea was doing at the time. Sometimes when we are intending to do one thing, we invent a solution to another problem, maybe one we didn't even know we had, along the way.
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I think the issue with these is that they're very carb-rich.

I've bought one of the Nutri-bullet type blenders and quite enjoy home-made smoothies; I eat far more fruit and veg than I'd have ordinarily.
I expect to see more people putting recaptchas in their login screens, which means even more data funneled to google (after NSA i guess).
Brita filter for the win. We do too, and then we boil it, then use it for tea/coffee and cooking.

For cold drinks; bottled water. We go through a ton of it.

The joys of living in London (UK) and it's crappy water :(
If your code doesn't affect others, then moving fast and breaking things is fine.

More generally: if you've created a sandbox or playground where you can move fast, break things, and not screw with others around you, that's a Good Thing.

Moving fast and breaking things in the context of an active government, with livelihoods and souls at stake, is another matter entirely.

As is the rather common practice of pushing out code on live projects and screwing with it in prod. The better firms (Google comes to mind) are pretty good at avoiding this, at least for technical issues. Rather less so for UI/UX.
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Huh. His obituary says he retired from IC in 1986, but I _distinctly_ recall him giving an electric motors course in my first year in 1994! I'm doubting my own memory now, but have vivid recollections of a classmate talking about the patents he had, and his ideas for launching to space using a maglev track up the side of a mountain.
It just doesn't show up at all. Placed right before the form ends. I also use a combination of PHP and Javascript to create my own captcha. PHP generates a random string which I send to Javascript to hold. Upon clicking a button, if what is in the captcha does not match what is in the Javascript, thou shalt not pass. Haven't had any bot break through it yet, but I did have a Russian hacker email me, pissed off (entire email was in Russian, but I'm pretty sure the translator did well to know he wasn't happy), because he had created a bot specifically for my website that managed to create over 2000 posts in less than an hour.

You can view the captcha at https://mypost.io/ .. you cannot create a post without entering the captcha. I ended up creating my own because despite entering the correct answer (selecting the right images), Google Recaptcha would not recognize it.
There are some old-school black and white videos on gun mechanisms that explain everything from the basics to how automatic/semi-automatic machine guns work, and they use large-scale wooden models.

There is a little fluff at the beginning, but the style is very much the same and has similar models to demonstrate everything.

For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzXG7MYX1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVeslwTvAw
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Speaking of. Audio captchas are one of the most spooky things I've heard. Noise in the background and muddled voice listing numbers. Think numbers stations, except they try their best to make the numbers unintelligible (just like regular captchas tend to do with written words).
I can't image it being limited to jitter, I'm curious how they handle touchscreens.
It's interesting that you use quotes that don't appear in the text, because if passing those messages was the intention of the writer they succeeded beautifully.
Incomplete assessment.

Functional programming much better supports equational reasoning.

Imperative programming much better supports operational reasoning.

Or you could contrast "data flow" vs "control flow".

I'd have thought we won't need operational reasoning in 2017 but currently I conclude it may always be a part of computer programming..
Google was called "Backrub" before it was called Google[0] so a suboptimal name doesn't portend failure - focus on the product first! Nice work.

[0]: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/the-tru...
What, confirmation bias?
Wait? This is true in all cases? I thought the US government required you to pay income taxes after a certain income point even if you were in foreign countries.

Why would Puerto Rico, which is part of the US itself, be an exception?
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A generic captcha doesn't use the work done by the user. I'm not the person you're replying to, but I think I can guess what could be their answer.
GP is talking about visitors doing free work for Google. Googel can use the results to train its algorithms - this is a big set of data and very valuable.

Of course the site (and with it visitors) benefit in this exchange, so I agree with you that it is not entirely "free".
yeah "regardless of time and space", as one observes in the resulting time and space usage. By the time the purely functional program has been tweaked for better (time and space) performance, said readability has greatly suffered ;D and I say that as an enthusiastic FPer
How is that "free work"?

The original recaptcha was used to help clear up text from book digitization projects where OCR couldn't understand the data. The appeal of this was that these works were in the public domain, and thus proper digitization of these works is a societal-wide benefit.

Since Google purchased it, they've been using it to:

1.) Clean street view data for a proprietary product (Google maps)

2.) Build training sets for unknown ML purposes

These are activities that Google could very much pay a group of people to do. Instead, through recaptcha, they are getting that work from the end user for no payment. A case could be made that it's not free for the owner of the site that deploy recaptcha (because they get value out of the service, and Google gets data/ML services). However, the actual end user who has to fill out the recaptcha does not benefit in any significant way. Since a recaptcha is an inconvenience to the end user, that user pays both with the time to fill it out, and the data gathered by Google.

TL;DR Some people do not like that Google benefits from a transaction where Google is not a party, and where otherwise, Google could generate the benefit using their own resources.
It is "free work" since I'm helping training Google's algorithms and I don't get money back. Note that the service is free for the site owner, but not for the end user, which has to invest his/her own time.
Reddit is moderated by mods, who are independent of the site.

Any random space alien cat can become a Reddit mod, and does. You've got to be hired by Reddit directly to become an admin.

The philosophy of Reddit is to allow subreddits to operate with very broad autonomy, save a few specific behavioural exceptions. There have been instances (spez's rewrites, for which he's apologised, of a small set of abusive comments), otherwise, but the overall philosophy is hands-off.

HN's is very much hands on, though it's mostly gentle guidance: admonitions, thread detaching, and if necessary, banning accounts, though pretty much always after a warning. If you go through dang and ... the other admin's accounts (sorry, other guy, but that's entirely nonmemorable), you'll see a great deal of activity. HN reflects the founders' and adminstrators' views far more than Reddit.

Mostly, that works out well, though it clearly doesn't scale to the extent Reddit does. This is not all bad.
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Thanks for reporting! Yeah, markdown needs a lot of work. It will be fixed this week.
As a piano player you might find this guy interesting, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubomyr_Melnyk
His playing style focuses nearly exclusively in using harmonics and resonance to create his music.
Great, now anyone knows how to temporarily satisfy you while delivering nothing of what you actually want in the long run.
>First, how can eating less than required to maintain mass be healthy?

Because you don't need to maintain the full adult mass you carry. In the end you'll find a new balance, albeit skinnier. It's not like you'll end to 0 pounds.

In other words, the "normal adult weight maintenance" target weight is not that normal, and not optimally healthy.
Construct a whole program of functions only with say `readonly` (in c#) or `const` (in EcmaScript) or only `:=` (in Go) "variable" "assignment-declarations", never mutating them after initial declaration. It's possible and it's one of the core tenets of purely FP.
Thanks for the feedback.

As for #3, unfortunately we don't currently have plans to publish a formal proof (we're building a product). Some of our internal documentation is more formal, but we decided on a more readable presentation for this paper.
You are right, these are two very different tasks. That's what makes solving this fun and challenging. I had it in mind when I was designing the architecture of gitly. In the end it really is going to be easily deployed and scalable.
A can of soda is only about 140 calories. I.e. half the calories in the bread. I think it gets a way worse reputation than it deserves.
Doing more with the same budget is a big thing within any department. It's a way to show 'efficiency' thus garner points for promotion.

Overall company budget for a technology group is besides the point---individual departments are budget constrained and being able to say I saved 30% last quarter, and whilst handing 200% more operations is something any manager would love.
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It's hard water, yes, but otherwise OK.

Having lived in London most of my life, and spent a few years in the US (MI), I can tell you we've got it good. I used to use bottled water in the US as I didn't enjoy drinking chlorine flavour/smelling water...
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There's at least two ways.

Right click the file scilexer.dll in your notepad folder and select properties. Then verify the certificate manually.

Another way is to download the same version from the notepad++ website and compare your version with theirs.

Really I wouldn't worry so much as long as you're not a CIA target they have no incentive to spent the time to deploy such a DLL on your system.
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I'm new to the whole area, so maybe it's my lack of knowledge of what "smart contracts" are meant to be, but is that something they are claiming to solve? I mean, how would a regular contract solve it — it wouldn't, a judge would solve it after you'd taken your landlord to court.

Are smart contracts proponents saying that they'll do away with the whole legal system, or just the solicitors' fees/time for drawing up contracts in the first place?

I presume I'd still be able to take my landlord to court for breach of contract for anything related to physical world (the bathroom is mouldy or he disputes the condition I've returned the apartment in and is withholding my deposit), but wouldn't need to pay £80 to get the contract drawn up in the first place.

And then all the 'meta' stuff, that doesn't relate to tangible things, is built-in and testable — e.g. rent cannot be increased more often than every 6 months and can only be increased by up to 15% of the current fee; at the end of the lease, the deposit minus cleaning fees should be returned within 30 days, with any interest earned.
On the contrary, reading over the network or from disk (no matter how fast and modern) is still comparatively slow and is nearly always the bottleneck.

Most non-embedded CPUs are more than fast enough to decompress every bit they get from the network or disk without decompression becoming the new bottleneck. There are other factors like latency, seeking, the minimum block size, and it always depends on the application, but generally speaking reading and writing compressed data should always be considered.

That being said, for CSS the benchmark should rather be the size after gzip or other commonly used HTTP-Stream compressions, which are almost universally used anyway.
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Technically, you can run new also insecure software by yourself on most Samsung Exynos devices at the very least, including the bootloader. Includes new kernel versions.
See: http://linux-exynos.org/wiki/Main_Page

Qualcomm is much more iffy, there is some work on integrating support to mainline but it's only beginning.

You lose the warranty bit and still cannot replace FCC-approved modem firmware, because certification reasons.
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And if at some point, the industry shifts to direct brain-stimulation to influence behavior, someone will say "how is that different from targeted advertising? People seemed to have no problem with that..."

How exactly would you expect that "having a problem with it" manifests? By not watching TV and not reading any kind of newspaper?
there is nothing wrong with the name, it's catchy and memorable ... and like Flickr and twttr you know.. it doesn't matter..

and always remember, if one is being 'critical' does not make them 'right' too. yep listen to it carefully, but do not assume they are right 'automatically'
>You're getting a vague idea of what you're eating but it is in no way calorie counting.

No, that's exactly calorie counting in the real world.

This is not advanced math or chemistry lab, and you don't need to get to even 80% accuracy for everything. Just to be consistent and get a good feel.
> Sans serif fonts don't distinguish between I and l and I didn't find a proportional serif font that does look good enough for code.

You might try Trebuchet MS. I've been using it for a few years now and find it to be an almost ideal programming font. It does have easily distinguished Il| and 0Oo characters, and it looks really good in the somewhat large font sizes I prefer on a high-DPI display. The only thing I don't like about Trebuchet MS is it has a really weak tilde (~). Sometime I will have to play with a font editor and see if I can swap in a better tilde.

Regarding column alignment, the solution is "don't do that." :-) I banished column alignment from my code a long time ago and haven't regretted it at all.

Of course, all that said, when viewing other people's code it can be useful to be able to view it in a monospaced font.
SciLexer is also the editor control itself, not just the parser.
Good luck getting the US to ever change. I'm personally on the side that Fahrenheit is more useful for day-to-day usage, because it has a range calibrated to the temperatures experienced in the part of the world I happen to live in. But it would take a whole generation to get people to change their frame of reference into Celsius, which isn't likely to happen, because the biggest interaction people have with temperature is the daily weather report, and it's primarily older people that watch the news.

I could get on board with kilometers, if I had to, because the conversion factor is simple enough to do in your head (roughly 3/5), but trying to figure out what anything is in Celsius is just a little too complicated.
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Cholera only existed in the old world and is a byproduct of animal domestication and urbanization[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
Landing page with zero information and a login-to-twitter button alone.

I waited 5 seconds to see if something else loaded, nope, then I closed the tab. Despite the the fairly intriguing "threads on twitter" the landing page was bad enough that I'm not even interested in continuing.

Put some examples there.
Dang I have to admit I had to look up a lot of words that you mentioned.

One concern too is the ability to terminate it if it's essentially a continuous poll/interval. Something is wrong, need to pass in a false variable to stop the loop.

Thanks, will check this out.
You will probably find it valuable to write that proof. Sometimes an edge case pops up or you end up proving that it doesn't work as expected. I've done this a few times in my work.

Unless you already have it but don't plan to publish, which seems a little odd to me. I get that you want readable documentation, but at least you could link to it somewhere for people who go digging.
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jeffmcjunkin point still stands. In a world of open software and maybe even open hardware, where tivoization and other tricks are prevented, planting backdoors and ensuring they stay undetected becomes very difficult.

More so if software is build reproducibly, signed, and so on.
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Cool, thanks a lot at least I have a direction to look. Yeah it's just odd to me since I haven't done something like this before, how you keep something running that isn't on the public/client-triggered side.

edit:

Actually a while back I did do a socket.io tutorial where you triggered the process by terminal. Not sure if directly related, node was mentioned below. I just wonder if you left the terminal would it end. Obviously not I don't think since this is in practice now on the web and I doubt they just have terminals open to keep a process running.
Pretty much any transformation is unsafe under the right circumstances. That's why minifiers take a lot of config.
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It's not that I don't want to use CRON, I just couldn't get it to work when I tried. I tried with Ubuntu (root problem), then I tried debian (no root problem) but it wouldn't execute. I think I did look at the dmesg or something logs I can't remember the reason but yeah it wouldn't execute my test script.

Haven't touched nodejs or python but I am open to it. Thanks. I'm alright with JavaScript (I can build things that I want in general) so maybe Node. Python the syntax I'm not familiar (have to practice/use it)

Anyway thanks for the info
btw the prior comment was a bit of sarcasm. I sometimes wonder about the bubble prices and just conclude there is something else going on in the macro level that I'm un-aware off. A lot of the fundermental concepts such as supply and demand for housing has been de-coupled so you have low demand but still prices remain high in some parts of the country.

I do think that at a fundermental level it just shows a complete lack of governance of politicians why is it is this bubble so super focused on a critical part of our life style and that is housing. Why isn't it focused at other area's of the market place such as health, medical, entertainment?

We have growing families in single bedroom apartments unable to afford a house for their growing families, well at the same time retires who live in a empty house or investors who have a empty unit's sitting vacant all year round.
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