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I had an odd thought today about the internet. I was listening to a podcasts (How I built this) and it was about AOL how the internet used to be illegal to connect to, modems, etc...

It's just odd to me how we connect to the internet and we don't even see a screen, we're connecting to someone else's computer (though it's a public-facing server or whatever) but I don't know. Then you create the interface and your brain maps it out where things are. Even though it's all representative ahhhh. I don't know, I'm not really going anywhere with this but damn, I'm glad to be here now in this time. Though I wouldn't mind being in the future being some space pilot or something.
Then the best option is to live frugally on a high salary in an expensive COL location. Really only housing scales linearly. If you can save on that, your base salary can be doubl, which affects your 401k match %, your bonus %, any raises, etc. so even if your entire salary adjustment goes to rent in a couple years you would be saving way more.
In other words, tech savvy customers will not be paying for my product since they will just host locally and use community support forums. And if my product is marketed to tech savvy people, that's a huge hit to my market.
I was confused about that being suspicious myself. It seems common, and it doesn't actually prevent him from doing a credit card chargeback - he's not disputing on "I never paid that", he's disputing on "they didn't give what they promised".
Also an entry on Werner Vogel's blog about this.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2017/04/aws-announces-eu...
Precision touchpad gestures on Windows 10 solves that problem, especially on the Dell XPS/Precision machines. It's really, really good.
Discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14031619

Daring Fireball "The Mac Pro Lives":

http://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
Problem: unsatisfied with package management on OS X / macOS

Project: rekindle an old project of mine [0][1]

Caveat: definitely works (as in I'm using it daily), but not ready for real public prime time as some meta+infra stuff still needs to be figured out. Will post instructions to get things running if some daring folks are interested.

[0]: http://www.arch-osx.org / http://www.archmac.org

[1]: https://github.com/arch-osx / https://gitlab.com/arch-osx
Blog post with more details: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-monito...
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Just a side note: I always take issue with the "brains aren't fully developed until 25" factoid. What does "fully developed" even mean? We certainly learn things after the age of 25...isn't learning brain development?
If you're predictable enough, it might be worth it to simply arrive a minute or two ahead of schedule.

The raving reviews you'd get the first times people order a car and are told instantly "your car is already waiting right outside your door" would be rather interesting.

Get in, and your favorite radio station or music is playing.

And for colder climates: Your car is already pre-heated. I remember too many winter mornings during winter in Norway when even ensuring our car would actually start in the morning was an annoyance (even with a garage, space heaters in the garage or motor heaters is sometimes necessary).
I listened to the whole series the day it was released. The author of this article seems to be under impression that John B cares about the deeper and deeper exploration of his life that you witness as you go on in the podcast. As explicitly addressed within the podcast when they started diving into certain topics (you know it when you reach it--those who have heard the series will already recognize I'm trying hard to avoid any spoilers here) he doesn't for practical reasons and as a matter of philosophy.

I've been a big podcast fan for quite a while and never quite understood the huge hype for Serial. Don't get me wrong, I think Serial is good--maybe even great--however S-Town deserves whatever hype comes its way. It is a masterfully told audio journey.
... on Windows you drag a window to the right and make it 1/2 or 1/3 or 1/4 the screen. On a Mac dragging the window... drags the window.
I... guess? That hypothesis conflicts with our best data and you end up at the same policy results anyway, so I'm not sure why one would prefer that roundabout method instead of simply agreeing with the scientific consensus.
I have to say the file size for File Loupe is impressive - only 5MB for all that functionality.

PS Is it written in Swift or ObjC?
The iMac only allowed RAM changing from what I know and it only had two slots. Changing the hard drive was a surgery that very few people are going to do. Apple is now in the habit of making the RAM and SSD part of the main board in the name of space saving.
As I wrote I still do consider keyboard UI on windows the best, because it's AFAIK the only widely supported destop OS with full keyboard control of the GUI. But the Ribbons are not for me - it's a menu system that's also trying to be a context aware palette, which makes it worse than either a classic menu (easy to skim though and find what you want, especially on MacOS) or a palette (can be placed wherever it's the most useful, i.e. allowing the shortest mouse travel).

Please note that I still do consider Windows Office the best version nevertheless, but for different reasons.
For academic seminars, I have started to always go through David Tong's ``How to Make Sure Your Talk Doesn’t Suck'' [0], before and after writing the presentation. I believe that it has at least helped me improve and feel more confident.

[0]
www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/talks/talk.pdf
It actually was. The current version no longer does this but the first one did. Which is kind of neat: under the hood HN has been almost completely revamped but it still looks almost to the pixel the same as the first version.
God, and anyone who knows how to read logfiles.
That claim is frequently used on HN to justify anti-driving policies, but the economic cost/benefit inside and outside the affected area is never considered. If you only focus on one metric (traffic density), you miss the bigger picture.
You're assuming I've lived in a car free household all my life.
in 2014 Tokyo built 140,000 homes

This isn't a net gain of 140k homes, but instead 140k "housing starts". In the US this would translate into about 140k new homes, because we normally reuse houses, but in Japan the culture is generally when you buy a house you tear it down and build a new one. So this 140k is a mixture of building new units and replacing old ones.
Aretec, Inc| Information System Security Officer (ISSO)| Washington DC Area | $80-135k Salary + benefits | Full-time |ONSITE

Job Requirements:
This position requires U.S. citizenship due to federal contractual obligations. Bachelors in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or other related analytical, scientific, or technical disciplines.
4+ years of experience in IT security, including Certification and Accreditation and/or IT security risk analysis/advice, preferably in support of the Federal government. Knowledge of Federal government C&A practices and policies, particularly ICS 503, FISMA, NISP SP 800-53, and DHS 4300. Experience with information assurance tools preferred. Experience vulnerability assessment scanning tools and reporting. Working knowledge of Ongoing Authorization with in the NIST Framework

Job Description:
Use Federal Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes to research, verify and document information security controls in order for the "systems" to be accredited.
Communicate and enforce security policies, procedures and safeguards for all systems and staff, based upon NIST
Analyze and advise on the risk and remediation of security issues based on reports from vulnerability assessment scanners, patch management tools, and emerging threat information.
Initiate, coordinate and track the patching and remediation of security weaknesses as they are discovered, via a "Plan of Actions and Milestones" (POAM).
Report on security status and security incidents.
Ensure event logs are reviewed at least daily or weekly.
Conduct Security Authorization document reviews.
Create and compile Authorization packages to include: Designation Letters, Security Plans, Contingency Plans, SOPs.
Conduct meeting with Government leadership and briefing on the State of Security for the systems in their purview.
Create/maintain Work Break Down structures in MS Project for each System.
Ensure the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is continuously updated.
Coordinate with the appropriate operational group to accurately update the System Design Document for each IT system.
Assist in maintaining all configurations, architecture, installed software, accounts, data flows, ports, protocols, and other relevant data for each IT System and capture in design documents in MS Visio.
Provide oversight and guidance regarding requests to modify technical policies such as firewall rules, ports, protocols, etc. for each IT system.
Work with auditors to identify Key Controls which must be assessed on a recurring annual basis.

Salary is commensurate with experience. Security certifications required (CISSP, CEH, Security+, CAP, GIAC, etc.). If you have a passion for cyber security and want to learn more about this position, please visit our career website http://www.aretecinc.com/careers/ or e-mail your resume to careers@aretecinc.com
Well, I guess that it depends on what "quality" you're after. It's not uncommon, for example, to see pastes taken down within hours. Much interesting stuff is ephemeral.
Nothing worse than drinking like you're in your 20s and waking up again in your 30s with your two kids crawling on you demanding breakfast.
Thank you, although I am quite familiar with history this was an extraordinary and simple analysis.
Free credit reports don't include FICO scores, and come with various other drawbacks, such as a lengthened time for the CRAs to respond to disputes.

The CRAs don't send a letter after negative action, the company who chose to grant or not grant credit does. You are entitled to a free report; however, it can be a pain to get when the company from whom you requested credit is small.
Not to be critical, but isn't Homebrew or Fink good enough? What features does your package manager offer that are better than these active projects?
As you mentioned we are indeed making money, after all, we’re a normal business! However, 92% of all websites get to implement our solution entirely for free, and we’re taking a cut from the earnings of the remaining 8% (the really big ones) based on what they earn via Acceptable Ads as those require a lot of work.

Tests were carried out on older versions of uBlock and ABP, so there’s no telling if what you mentioned is still the case. For us, it’s not all about a couple of seconds saved per year (this would be all you’d ever possibly save).

I'm sure we can both agree that there are many unacceptable ads - like some of the ones you mentioned - but as you mentioned people have options, which is exactly why users will always have the option to turn everything off if they don't agree with us on acceptable ads!
Big items for me on MacOS

* Drag-and-drop automation, scripting and workflow tools. I love folder actions.

* Built-in screen recording in QuickTime Player, which also works with attached iOS devices

* Time Machine backups. So easy to use and has saved my bacon over and over

* iMovie and Photos. I don't use the rest of the bundled apps, both those two are essentials for me.
Tokyo is a pretty distinct place

while turning our largest cities into Tokyo would have some advantages

I'm a little hesitant to want all cities to resemble it
Well, but now people are gaining value by being able to make trips that they couldn't make before.
Great comic book treatment of the Frege - Russell - Godel story. Strongly recommended.
Problem: software developers want to hear about software needs in other industries.

Project: Opps Daily (http://oppsdaily.com) interviews people about the software they wished they had, and sends the interviews out every day. We then connect interested devs to the interviewee when possible.
Do you really need a CEO?
We will try to find out if the uBlock issue would be solved by the way you mentioned. We will also check if it is possible to extract and save the tags of Pocket.

We improve Granary.pro, based on various user feedback, until it is the best. Thank you.
Everyone is writing about their startups. My startup makes self-driving delivery robots (http://robby.io).

But that aside, one of the things I'm working on is trying to use RNNs to create a better digital piano. Even the best digital pianos out there are far inferior to a even a YouTube recording of a concert grand piano. One of the biggest problems I notice is the complete decoupling of resonances between strings; most digital pianos treat notes independently and just sum up the audio signals. In reality it's a giant, heavily interconnected physical system with tons of resonances and nonlinearities, and I want to see if some signal processing combined with backpropagation can be used to abuse a neural network to simulate the energy transfer in a physical system of that complexity.

I haven't been terribly successful yet, but it would be amazing if there existed an open source digital piano that performed spectacularly and could be plugged into an el cheapo weighted keyboard for decent piano sound.
A bit more of the infos from your link would be nice in the text of the post, in particular the salary range.
Problem: too many bot and voice app platforms are emerging and writing apps/skills/actions for each one won't scale.

Project: I'm developing an SDK for building conversational apps that has pluggable "frontends" for different platforms. It's based around the AI concept of "frames" to organize your code and an MVC-style template renderer for building responses.

Challenges right now are learning more about Typescript and NPM modules, refactoring, writing tests, and getting it documented for release.

I also would like to build a business around it (already doing consulting building Alexa skills), but I'm not sure if it would be better to keep it closed source or dual license. Any advice?
You mentioned civilization. What, exactly, do you think that is?

For many thousands of years, the underlying principle of civilization has been "might makes right". The governments in it codify their laws such that the government itself becomes the regional monopoly on the justified use of force. Within the past few centuries, civilization has slowly been moving towards "the ends justify the means". While that is slightly better, as a fundamental organizing principle of civilization, it is still not ideal, in my opinion.

For now, civilization largely consists of a mutual compact regarding when it is morally acceptable to employ violence. In exchange for obeying the rules, we are promised some of the benefits resulting from collectively standing down from a state of universal hypervigilance.

A hungry and homeless person may perceive that he or she is not getting their fair share of society's mutual benefits. Civilization has not honored its end of the bargain, so they need not honor theirs. There is no moral reason for them to restrain themselves from committing any act considered a crime by civilization. They may still choose to remain within the law, for practical reasons, but it would not be because they are morally obligated to do so. They could rebel at any time. Many do not, and never will.

Consider that if no one ever went outlaw, civilization would have little incentive to give its underclass anything. If you only need a million warm bodies to run the machines, you dump 3 Mcal down the feed chutes every day, and let the rabble argue among themselves over who gets to eat it. If no one is willing to fight the system, everyone is safe to ignore.

Civilization would serve itself best by ensuring that its bounty is distributed evenly enough such that those at the bottom perceive that they would have something significant to lose by rebelling. Though it may also preemptively defend itself against such people by ensuring that they cannot present a significant criminal or military threat if they do turn. You can build shelters and bread lines, or you can build prisons and walls. Not coincidentally, those are the typical strategies of parties considered "left" or "right" politically, worldwide.

If it truly is a last resort, a human with nothing is not ethically restrained in any way from doing anything at all. It might be breaking your car window and stealing something out of your back seat. It might be beating you to death and eating your liver. It might be to give you the sad, puppy-dog eyes, shake some change in a coffee cup, and sing the blues. A civilization that provides no benefits cannot reasonably expect conduct different from the savage, naked savannah-ape in the wild. They don't always kill each other, but they certainly don't worry about laws when they do.
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Philosophy toolkit
It isn't. You could easily check that in Task Manager or Process Explorer and/or Glasswire or whatever.

Most of these things take up a trivial amount of disk space -- some of them are just placeholders -- so they're not worth the time taken to worry about them.
You can't simply sell your products on Amazon and then brick the product if you find out someone that you don't like bought it. That's absolutely absurd and frankly I find it shocking how biased you are towards the creator.

You can't retroactively undo a sale based on your whims.
Problem: Finding newly-registered companies (to market services to them) in the UK is hard. The government releases an updated registry of all four million UK companies once every month, but they come in a huge five-part spreadsheet. It's difficult and painful to sort and filter through this data.

Project: I constantly poll the UK government's databases for newly-registered companies. I also geocode each company's registered office address. I can send you details of the newest UK companies by email every day (or week, or month), and you can choose to only see companies of a certain type (hospitality, technology, etc.), and/or companies in a certain area (within 10 miles of London, etc.). You can also log in to the dashboard and view historical company data at any time if you prefer.

Built with Haskell, Elm, Redis, and PostgreSQL, if you're interested :)

https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/
Unless by more people using that road, perhaps a more direct route, the total number of miles travelled goes down. Then that increased local traffic is a net positive for the larger area.
My number one tip for a conference talk is to use the 5 minutes before your talk starts (but people are filing in) to start connecting to the audience.

During the talk itself there's high expectations. People may have paid a lot, travelled overnight, found a baby sitter to be there. But during the travel time and breaks the expectations are much lower.

Use that time to your advantage. Tell a joke, an anecdote related to your topic, ask a good question of the audience. Start building that rapport before your slot even begins.

This helps your audience warm up to you, and helps you slide more comfortably into your talk.
That's what "own" means with houses. You're a "homeowner" after closing, and you are the legal owner of the property, even though you still owe thousands to your bank.
Re: Japan, I'd be curious how apples-to-apples that comparison is; I read the linked article, but it wasn't entirely clear. At any rate, it seems like NIMBYism would be relatively easier to combat in Japan given that it's generally accepted that houses will just get demoed and rebuilt, period; average house life expectancy, depending on how you calculate it, can be said to be under 30 years.

Looking around my neighborhood here in Portland, OR, though, the number of "no demo" and "stop infill" signs is a little maddening. I have empathy for difficulties caused by rapid development, but the "I don't ever want the neighborhood to change" mentality is horribly lacking in pragmatism. It's a bit difficult to imagine optimally practical political solutions for denser housing in this climate.
Great question. I use, all the time, applications which need full speed and full GPU support of which some are only on Linux and some are only on Windows and there's some overlap where most from both are on MacOS. Simple VM doesn't cut it, I've tried.
I'm glad. MS has made a lot of good programming tools. I really like Visual Studio and was a huge fan of QuickBasic 4.5 back in the day. Turbo Pascal was the killer app that first enticed me to the PC world.

It still befuddles me why some of this basic functionality cannot be a standard part of Windows. Not every Mac user uses emacs, or even knows how to open the Terminal app, but the fact that basic tools are supported means that there is just a baseline level of infrastructure to work with.
>But that promise depends on their definition of "in the same spirit," which is nebulous.

Yes, very famously Linus Torvalds felt that GPLv3 was not in the same spirit as GPLv2. He described it as "a violation of everything version 2 stood for".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU
Both are 100% Objective-C. No plans to make the switch anytime soon. I'm comfortable with Objective-C and understand it reasonably well.

Applications can be pretty small when they're 100% native and include almost no artwork or auxiliary assets.
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I have yet to see a strategy that passes this simple test: does it also work if there are other people, most of them more knowledgeable about the market than you, applying similar strategies?

Also, "Why I don't trade stocks and neither should you": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6831461
Great! I'm using the free version and works perfect as Google Form
It seems more appropriate to credit TBL for "The Web" than for "The Internet"...
30 years ago the FSF was the dominant organization in an obscure open source movement, today they are a footnote in the history of an successful open source movement that have gone completely mainstream.

This process have left FSF without the resources to do anything but create drama inside the open source movement and predictably they have become the PETA of OpenSource concerned more with proving their own purity and commitment then anything else.
Project: Building an ML model (in an iOS app) that detect different fitness movements, count the reps and indicate if the user used a proper form.

It's mostly a fun side project I am building to improve my ML knowledge.
of course, but my understanding is that the debate isn't over whether the climate is changing, but whether it is driven primarily by human activity or a natural periodic system. A general physicist is probably not well placed to answer that question.
Reactive Web Design: techniques for making sites “feel” as good as apps
Emulators for 8 bit computers like the ZX Spectrum and CPC were around for a while, but I remember people saying that emulating games consoles would be impossible, then suddenly they started making leaps and bounds.
> The ability to edit text _does_ ship on windows - notepad.

Windows also ships with WordPad, which is a simple word processor.
It's hard to write a coherent argument for or against the points made in the article without spoiling the podcast. Suffice to say, I'll join the chorus of voices saying that it is an entirely worthwhile endeavor and you should listen to it.
You can never be 100% safe, but you can feel 100% safe since feelings are subjective.
> we can't even really define what "secure" means in practical terms

I'd suggest a very practical approach here: A system is only secure if the value required to break it is higher than the value that can be obtained by breaking it.
Thank you for your advice and interest and We will concentrate on uBlock troubleshooting.