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> Ceramic, glass and plastic knives can be extremely dangerous

Yes, but not more so on aircraft. Passengers (who tend to not want to die in a suicide hijacking) will fight for their lives against hijackers who use knives. Sometimes the attempted hijackers die from the injuries sustained by the passengers fighting back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin_Airlines_Flight_7554

I really don't worry about knives on airplanes, what's scary is energetic materials (explosives or gunpowder) or someone tampering with electrical/avionics equipment.
Citation please for the crippled drivers?
The entire account is marked dead. I had to "vouch" for the submission to get this thread to show in the first place. I'm not sure why they were hellbanned as this is the only submission and its very much a valid "Ask HN post".
There are electronic whiteboards which behave in the same way and work extremely well.
You're right about things getting forgotten. Two of the setups you're referring to in the pre-tape era were the film chain for playback and the kinescope for recording. These things were finicky and required extra personnel, whereas pointing one of the cameras at a physical logo was much easier. Its why much of early television, especially local programming was not saved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_chain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinescope

This is a kinescope of Playhouse 90s production of Requiem for a Heavyweight which was performed live on TV like a play. Its amazing to think they changed sets and costumes during commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0h2Anklbo
I didn't assume that. I was just correcting your statement about what transfers were occurring.

I do not consider myself an expert on this topic. It's good that you do. However, your evidence is weak. You have made a leap from restaurant exits to minimum wage is bad for the workers.

That there is disagreement among people better informed than I suggests I shouldn't hold my opinion strongly without good reason.
Not if they're forced to check their phones in. I have friends working in the defence industry for whom this is something they have to deal with.
https://www.scaleapi.com/ Non-paywall link
who was your mom referring to, if I may ask?
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Interesting course, but very interesting web portal. Thanks for posting!!
It might be an assumption, but you can also just Google Bri Holt and see who it is.
Facebook is a huge problem. I think it is a huge drain on the taxpayers who must fund a government that keeps Facebook users safe. The upside is that the terrorists may use it and thereby get caught. The problem is, who defines the terrorists?

The problem is that Facebook can get the government to define "terrorist" on its own timetable rather than the government's timetable. Society already defines membership through exclusion: an "unhealthy" Facebook account is grounds for stripping you of the privilege of being a member of society in good standing.
> Their combined influence is minuscule, the researchers said, suggesting that thousands more are likely to be involved and still await discovery.

I don't follow. How does that suggest anything? Perhaps intelligence is largely environmental.

In fact, all this suggests is that the genetic influence is likely non-zero.
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Yes. This.

My theory is that Silicon Valley (aka "white men" in the most air-quotes way possible) have moved on to solving the problems of the whole world (whether the world wants them to or not) because they don't have acute social obstacles they have to deal with.

The rest of us have things that bother us every day: we work on fixing those. There's no app for that: it takes the hard work of millions of women and people of color every day. Hard work that is assumed as a "given" by most companies.

And this is in no way a critique of white men for not working on these problems: they're not your problems to solve. Just please don't tear us down when all we're trying to to is claw our way up to your level. A little support (even purely verbal) goes a long way.
>> That's important because the venue is full of nepotism and extremely plaintiff-friendly.

Could somebody explain this point in detail? Surely the law is the law regardless of where in the country a case is heard.
This is a strange response. You talk about yourself personally and then go on to generalize: apparently no-one with a "fulfilling, busy, exciting and interesting life of their own" will ever be interested in other people's experience. Apparently the explanation of why other people have tastes that are different to your own is that their lives suck.

A less preposterous (and less self-congratulatory) idea might be that "people like different things".
I think it's under the Terminal options. There's xterm/windows/compromise IIRC, and I always set it to Windows. Not at a computer to check.
Maybe about half the time I end up answering my own question during this step. The act of genericizing the question ends up giving me some new approach, which either works, or leads me to new existing questions-and-answers.
California in general is pretty expensive, comparatively speaking. You might find better deals in the Central Valley, but that's about it AFAICT.
When I was in high school, several of my classmates had jobs as tomato pickers. The interesting thing was that some of them got paid per tomato while others got paid by the hour. The ones that were paid per tomato definitely seemed to work a lot harder. So much so that they didn't want to waste time on bathroom breaks and just peed between the tomato plants instead.

This essentially taught me two things: 1) performance pay really works and 2) always wash your vegetables.
The minimum wage is an effort to increase the welfare of those whose skills are in excess supply.

No, that is entirely unrelated to why it was created.

It was created because The Deep South was unwilling to pay a black man "a white man's wages" and blacks were routinely paid about half what whites made for the exact same job. The policy was initially a failure. Businesses in the South fired blacks en masse rather than pay a black man the same as a white. This did not change until WW2 caused very serious labor shortages.

Minimum wage was an antiracism policy aimed at forcing the Deep South to get more in line with the rest of the nation and stop having Jim Crow bullshit linger on in the form of literally paying blacks half as much as whites. It was intended to put a stop to that practice.

Whatever they do with it now for REASONS, the original federal minimum wage law was passed for the above reason.
don't be surprised if people like it?

don't be surprised if it takes work to make it better?

don't be surprised if it catches on?

don't be surprised if people love it?
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I've been fascinated with Walker's exploits since I was a kid. But it is disconcerting when I read anecdotes or stories written by those who were dyed in the wool NASA crew or part of the astronaut corps. There always seems to be an undercurrent of resentment and dismissal over a 'civilian' being involved in what was considered elite test pilot duties.

Even Gen. Yeager I believe once intimated that Walker's death during the XB-70 photo shoot was partially his fault due to 'not having the experience in formation flying that an Air Force or Navy pilot would have'. Yeager I believe went on to say that the accident probably would not have happened if all the fliers were military trained.

[Note: I can't find the quote online now, but I believe I saw it in a printed Aviation magazine a couple of decades ago.]

A tad unfair IMO, given all his other achievements.
As far as I know, there isn't a consistent one. The Wall Street Journal recently increased the level of protection their paywall provides. Some have reported success using the "web" link in an private browsing window.

Edit to add: I had forgotten about the hack my sibling mentioned. Thanks, 'ayw!
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> but from what I've been told if you do great on the sample application you're just rewarded with a full day of technical interviews anyway.

Happened to me even though the recruiter roped me into the take home coding challenge by saying "We don't do whiteboard technical interviews here".

Bonus points to this company for having the second interviewer of the day so uninterested in interviewing me that he literally watched his watch near the end of the interview and bolted out the door the second he was allowed to.
The genetic variants that raise intelligence also tend to pop up more frequently in people who have never smoked. Some of them also are found more often in people who take up smoking but quit successfully.

The more we look, the more we're likely to find confounding genes like this. Sure, it might be that those genes directly raise intelligence... but it might also be that those genes make the parents less likely to smoke, and the measured difference in intellect is entirely due to exposure to parental smoking.

If there's a gene for "less likely to drop babies on their heads", it will probably show up as being correlated with higher intellect -- even if it has no direct effect on intellect and instead acts solely though yielding improved parenting.
Sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noddy_(camera)
Got this hack from elsewhere on HN. Try this link:

http://facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/sca...

and just click to follow the link. If the referrer is facebook, they let you through.
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> Some companies like Google allow easy registration of OAuth2 clients, so any rclone user can make their own API keys at console.developers.google.com and feed those to rclone, instead of having to use the built-in credential

How does making new Google API keys help with an Amazon service?
> In fact, all this suggest is that the genetic influence is likely non-zero.

It's been widely thought to be non-zero for a while. Now that they are identifying individual genes responsible we can start to better quantify exactly how non-zero it is.
Would you say that networks like Twitter fall into the same category? People are also able to build comfortable "filter bubble" spaces there without the help of algorithms.
Thanks! I'll try to get an update on this. BTW code climate engine support in merge requests is coming in 9.3.
Off the top of my head, but I do remember a case in Texas where the son of the Judge was representing the Plaintiff. The judge refused to excuse himself from the case.
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haha! Take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG9UMMq2dz4
You're enthusiastically providing a case study of my original comment. The reason you rarely see personal gripes of black lung or factory layoffs or opioid overdoses or IED injuries or the myriad of other ills plaguing humanity, is because you live in an upper class bubble.
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> OK how is it you think epicycles differ in this respect from say the keplerian model of the solar system?

Just to be clear, I'm not in any way insulting the intelligence of those who proposed them. It was a clever mechanism for dealing with what seemed at the time to be a blemish on an otherwise beautiful theory, and the fact that it turned out to be (factually) wrong does not mean that it was wrong to propose and test it.

With that said, here's my stab at what I see as the difference. The Keplerian model predicts elliptical orbits. To be sure, one must do some tuning of parameters to find the semimajor and semiminor axes of these ellipses; there is no way for someone sitting in a windowless room, with access only to Kepler's laws, to predict exactly, say, the length of a Jovian year, or even the existence of Jupiter.

However, what is crucial is that that person sitting in a windowless room can say, definitively, that, if Jupiter has been observed in these five positions at these five times, then it will be in this position at this sixth time. If it's not there, then the Keplerian model is wrong; it has been falsified.

Now suppose instead that another person in another windowless room knows about, not just Kepler's laws, but also epicycles. Given the same five measurements, he or she can make a prediction (which won't require epicycles). This prediction might or might not agree with the sixth measurement, but, if it doesn't, then that's no problem; just add on an epicycle to account for that measurement. If the result of that correction doesn't agree with the seventh measurement, then just add another epicycle.

To me, these two systems are meaningfully different. It is not the reliance on parameters to which I object, but the extreme flexibility; a model that can literally never be falsified, because it can always be adjusted to match new observations, is worthless as a scientific model.
Ah true. I guess what I was really getting at was that even though JavaScript has some fundamental missteps, it's not beyond being fixed and definitely not the worst language in existence i.e. that behind the quirks, is a quite nice and powerful language that isn't a waste of effort.
> Not so comfortable when the shoe is on the other foot?

Hm...I find this particular rhetorical technique to be rather lacking in substance. It's unnecessarily adversarial, and it continues an attempt at persuasion by remarking on the individual's identity rather than the statements.

To answer it directly: no, I don't feel defensive about the part of your first comment that I singled out; instead, I think it significantly undermines your (fairly strong, in my opinion) argument.

Opening with a comment that assumes the other party's race or gender based on their perspective, then immediately patronizes them for it ("I don't mean this as an insult in any way; since that's most likely your entire life experience.") detracts from what would otherwise be a well-delivered point.

I don't want to make this a game of suffering-competition, but here's a thought experiment: would you explicitly mention your assumption about someone's race if you figured they're a minority, then go on to use the sentence, I don't mean this as an insult in any way; since that's most likely your entire life experience. to describe their perspective?

Edit to your edit: I understand this is an emotionally charged topic, but even if you are correct that women have to routinely deal with the sort of comment you made towards briholt (and I believe they do), you doing the same to convince others is a poor method of bridging communication and empathy.
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While pinboard is still up. It seems to be unsupported. There are people writing on twitter and they get no response. Emails are being sent to support but nobody ever answers. These are issues brought up in the pinboard freenode channel on irc all the time. Users have issues but can't reach support.

Does anybody have an idea on what's going on? This has been over the last 12 months.
Ah, TIL. I'm not American though. Minimum wage isn't just an American policy.
A fun read on this subject: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/08/26/clawback
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Python 2.7 is officially dead.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Python 2.7 community when josteink confirmed that he would not be bothering to touch anything older than Python 3 code.

All major surveys show that Python 2.7 has steadily declined in market share. 2.7 packages are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If legacy Python is to survive at all it will be among trolling dilettante dabblers. 2.7 continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Python 2.7 is dead.

FACT: Python 2.7 is dying.
It's the same company, they own all the domains. If you're using Instagram than FB knows who you are.
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he needs to document this down somewhere, or do a youtube channel or something
It strikes me as bizarre that we are so reluctant to apply the same principles of genetics and heredity to humans that we have applied to canines, bovines, equines, and even vegetables, for centuries.
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One of the things I like most about Gitlab, is the steady releases and improvements by small doses, making it easy to auto-upgrade and adapt as we go (with the occasional internal announcement: "hey, you can now do X in Gitlab, have fun"). I've used JIRA/Atlassian, Github and Redmine a lot, and by far, I like Gitlab the most.

My only point of friction, which is being worked on, but will presumably take some time: no internationalization of the user interface (UI translation). I manage two instances of Gitlab: one for our shop (where we communicate with clients), another for a large-ish free software project (with hundreds of people from all skills and all languages). We (obviously) try to take any step we can do to remove friction with tools, but language is an important factor that we often under-estimate.
How can we possibly compare trusting a friend to trusting a company that you'll sporadically buy products from?
I visited a military-civil integration expo in Beijing a couple of months ago, and most of it was massive drones with weaponry mounted. The Chinese companies present told me it is already common to use their existing multi-100 kilogram load capable drones to distribute agricultural chemicals, and the whole military market was just a sort of publicity stunt / maybe-what-if for them.
However, if I were to completely close down my Facebook account, I would lose all of the passive information that is sent to me.

Or you could just do a quick inventory of which of those groups / are still important to you. And then sign up again using a different device / email address. Along with, of course, a totally fake user name. And (slowly) sign up again for those pages.

Which I guess would against FB's terms of service, in theory. But fuck that. They certainly aren't honest and above-board with you -- there's no reason you "owe" them any particular degree of honesty in return. Just use them for what you need, and let them (and their expected monetization off the minutia of your inner life) sod off otherwise.

As you with with, you know, any commercial product.
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I am also very interested in finding out more about the tech scene in Spain. Questions:

- Are there many opportunities for technical QA -- folks who know SQL, Jmeter, and other technical tools? What would salary ranges be for those types of positions?

- Are there tech scenes in smaller cities like Bilbao, Valencia, Seville?

- What is the culture like at Spanish tech companies?

Muchísimas gracias.
It's important that there be jobs for people without much education.

Average education levels for women when Abe Lincoln was president was 2nd-4th grade level. People routinely quit school after 8t grade. Often, only people who wanted a serious professional career went on to high school.

It is within my lifetime that we moved from more than half of all people living outside of cities to more than half living within cities. Not terribly long ago, most jobs were farm related in some fashion.

I don't know what the solution is, but I seriously doubt that most people today would feel like someone with a 2nd grade education or even an 8th grade education deserves a job as they are, without first getting more education. As society evolves, there tends to be upward pressure on how much education is needed to get even an entry level job. This is not merely assholery by the people running the bureaucracy or whatever. Things seem to genuinely get more complicated and take more skill.

I think one big piece of the puzzle is that we need to bring back genuinely affordable housing. It has largely gone the way of the dinosaur. I think this puts enormous pressure on people, regardless of what kind of job they have. It cuts off a lot of avenues.

But I seem to be howling into a void. Everyone seems to be discussing UBI and largely ignoring the fact that even if you cut everyone a check for some kind of basic income, if we don't solve some of our housing issues, you will still see growing numbers of people either homeless or crammed together like sardines in a space not intended to hold that many people.
That was my thought as well. Judging from the article, the model they have has statistical significance, but small predictive power.

"But in the past couple of years, larger studies relying on new statistical methods finally have produced compelling evidence that particular genes really are involved in shaping human intelligence."

and

"But all of these genes together account for just a small percentage of the variation in intelligence test scores, the researchers found; each variant raises or lowers I.Q. by only a small fraction of a point."

That doesn't sound like a compelling result, or an enormous success to me. I've taken a few IQ tests in my life and my own variation between tests is more than a dozen points. If they were showing genetics accounting for a meaningful amount of change in the IQ score, then yes, but in low predictive power models, I'd be more likely to look to a confounding variable with those genes that wasn't Intelligence. (e.g. certain genes express more when people eat a nutritious diet growing up - the study mentions that these genes in question are tied to regulating brain cell development).
Stochastic rounding is also important for doing these algorithms in very low precision. Without stochastic rounding, even very small rounding errors accumulate enough to destroy the accuracy.
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PS: cargo UAV cults might be how post-scarcity would look like if wealth keeps concentrating in a few high tech hotspots

+1 insightful ;)

What would be the motivation for resupplying the remote communities? Nominal park-ranger duties performed on the wild tundra / remote islands?
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The citation is we're building a GPU cloud and have tested almost every GPU in existence :) Just kidding, here are a few examples:

http://vfio.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/vfiovga-faq.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2twq7q/nvidia_appare...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2014-October/m...

I just quickly googled this so there are probably better sources. Some of these are old but I can tell you firsthand that this is still the case.

There are workarounds for certain hypervisors (KVM mainly) but it's very unlikely that this would be deployed in a production environment.
I'm surprised truck driving used to be a "road to the middle class" in USA. It's one of the shittiest jobs and requires almost zero higher brain function. I'm pretty sure you can train a brain damaged person to reasonably drive a truck across the country. This job should never have been able to lift anybody into middle class.

Glad to see that truckers are feeling the pinch. If they are even a bit smart, they should leave and do something else. Even repairing trucks along the Highway may be a better job.

Somewhat tangential, but I hate this notion people seem to harbour, that any kind of job should be able to provide dignified living. No. If your work is shitty and super replaceable and doesn't need much brain power you will live in poverty.