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You are shielding The Intercept from criticism. The Intercept has not countered the DOJ testimony or any of the other reporting on this. The FBI has sworn that these things happened. So let us think through the counterfactual that you're proposing: The Intercept didn't burn their source and the FBI lied to a federal judge on a warrant application. In that reality, the Intercept would immediately publish a story about how the FBI lies to federal judges. Not only would it be a huge blockbuster, but that search warrant would be fucked and the search (during which she confessed) would be inadmissible. Not only do they have a huge story, they got their source off!

Instead, they released this chickenshit statement that tries to cast doubt on the testimony without actually disputing any of it: https://theintercept.com/2017/06/06/statement-on-justice-dep...
So, it looks like we live in the reality where the FBI didn't lie on a warrant application and The Intercept burned a source.
Part of the problem is it is difficult to determine if someone has been fired for cause, or because they are a scape goat, or if they just weren't liked by management, or many other reasons
I used slack.com because https://status.slack.com/ hadn't been updated yet. It's updated now.
Learn algorithms and design patterns. This is what i have learned. Anyone can pick up the nuances of how to create an array or how classes work and the like basically anyone can pick up on the nuances of a language, but if you can't figure out how to solve a problem (breaking a daunting one into smaller problems is usually helpful) then you'll have a hard time 'becoming' a programmer.
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Alternate MSN link (same article): http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/exclusive...
That's what you think you'd LIKE to use FB for. But remember, the medium is the message. You can't escape the interactive narrow mindedness of FB because it is inherent to the design of the overall product.

In reality, you use FB to have your data packaged up and sold to advertisers, brands, and government agencies. You're the product, not the customer.
How is a $12 billion valuation dropping the ball. Pinterest appeals to a very lucrative democratic who are looking for stuff to buy, such as clothes, household products, and other stuff, whereas people go to Facebook to see pictures of family or engage in political gossip.
I don't expect them to remember textbook details either. But I expect people to know how to manipulate and understand an unfamiliar data structure or understand when a given data structure is appropriate for a particular problem domain. I expect people to understand (or be able to derive) when memoization is appropriate. I expect people to understand (or be able to derive) how using different data structures or representations of these data structures might affect memory layout and cache performance.

That's essential stuff, not something to be dismissed as "textbook details".
Yes, an month. Both NYT and G&M are monthly subs.

i.e. I'm willing to pay $2400 a year for journalism.
> 20 out of only 12,000 is a huge number
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Carddav support would a huge win. Even some sensible markup to store metadata in the notes field could allow some kind of editing on the go, and synchronization.
well, i haven't looked too closely, but i guess i'd be ok to run your own if this bugs you too much. there are links to the github repo on the site.
Most climbers take significantly longer because:

1) When using gear (unlike Alex), you have to repeatedly stop and insert it, referred to as "protection." This slows progress and your partner has to then stop and remove that protection as you ascend. After each pitch (think a rope length), you then have to set up an anchor and organize/sort the gear before progressing. So, using and managing gear takes considerable time.

2) Two climbers are usually taking turns, with one belaying while the other climbs.

3) Alex has a level of competence on rock unmatched by us other climbers; his mastery allows him to swiftly glide through sections where most climbers would need more time to think about the moves, analyze the options, etc.

4) Alex was very familiar with the route, with many sequences memorized. Doing the route with less familiarity is like a puzzle, resulting in slower progress as you figure out how to get through various sections.

5) Alex has better stamina with less need for rest.

6) This is a hard route, and many climbers might fall or rest on their gear repeatedly while working through difficult sections.

I'm sure I'm leaving out a few reasons but in a nutshell, keeping it simple (no gear, no partner, no unknown moves, etc.) increases efficiency.
I don't think it is correct to use words dumbass and unethical as synonyms. They are not.

I defended dudes here, because they were treated as normally unethical or normally dumbass. Since women were not implied to be less capable, there was no need to defend then.
I remember the first time I looked at my ip6 address and found my MAC in the host portion. Obvious and predictable as it might be to some folks, it surprised and annoyed me. With a unique MAC in every assigned ip6 address, it's pretty easy to imagine the tracking potential, e.g., a unique ID following a user where ever an ip6 address is assigned. Apparently Apple and even Network-Manager(Linux) automatically randomize/obscure the MAC for ip6 addresses - I don't know about Windows though. Using wicd in Linux, I must either randomize the MAC manually, or configure sysctl.conf accordingly. Otherwise, it's great, I suppose, that every atom in the known universe can have its own ip.
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my schooling was done in Europe and I do see a difference indeed :-)
It's merely speculation but I think it's plausible:

If some random journalist was able to decode the dots, the NSA probably decoded them too because why not.

The fact that they know how many people printed this document shows that they keep detailed printing logs so they shouldn't have trouble finding out who exactly used this specific printer at this specific time. And if you think about it, this is exactly what they should be doing instead of relying solely on weaker evidence.

Then they searched her work computer and got some more evidence (the e-mail contact, maybe more they aren't sharing).

They presented whatever evidence was sufficient to convince her and the public that they know it was her, she doesn't seem very tech-savvy, freaked out, told everything and now it's done.
Assuming Honnold has perfect ability, what are the risks of the route itself? I assume these routes are kept clean of loose rock, holds are inspected constantly and anything showing wear is communicated to the climber community.
> WebAssembly would have to load and start as quickly as JS.

Wouldn't it already load faster than JS, because it's much less work to compile and doesn't require guessing types?
I take the same thing from that quote. I have a good friend who has become one of the top competition paraglider pilots in the world. A lot of paragliders see him as doing terrifying, reckless things. He's told me that he considers himself a conservative pilot, and that he doesn't take risks. I agree with his self-assessment. I've known him a long time, and saw him ascend through a long, well-ordered series of incremental challenges.
> Home care workers were working by mutual agreement with their respective employers. "The country" had nothing to do with it.

"The country" can force someone into accepting the "best" bad deal ("by mutual agreement") if all the other options are worse. It's an error to stop your analysis at the agreement without considering the full context in which it was made.
That's really hard to do with media, etc. on your tail, even IF your life is literally at stake.

Except they weren't.

Honnold and his team very deliberately kept this thing quiet. Other than the crew and close friends, no one knew of the ascent until it was done and announced.

Which is brilliant for exactly the reasons you mention.
How possible would it be for a group of parents to hire a teacher and have them teach 6-12 kids at someone's house? Sidestepping a lot of the administration BS?
It would make a lot of sense if grants covered such costs, even at current AWS prices.

Currently, I suspect a lot of IT-heavy grant-funded projects are basically relying on university infrastructure being provided without full (or in some cases any) project-based cost recoup, which universities are increasingly loathe to do. The indirect/overhead margin probably doesn't always really cover it. (And it's not like a university is going to let you use 'overhead' dollars for AWS, _even if_ it would actually be a cost savings compared to the local IT you are using instead!)

It's not really rational economic decisions being made all around.

Proper professional IT is expensive. People still think automating is supposed to save them money, but turns out, nope. Many industries are still relying on unprofessionally provided IT instead of paying for professional IT.
Large JS applications take so long to parse that they could already be slower on startup. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/02/what-makes-webassembly-fas...
"at his incompetence" ?
Your nickname is aptly chosen, yet the same can't be said of the words in your post.

Honnold climbs without a rope because he can afford to do so.
He may well one day lose his life, but he knows it, and puts much more care in preparing and then stays concentrated on his climbs than most people do when driving a car.

I encourage you to read articles about him, they should help give you some perspective.
If that's the case, why the reference to open highways?
When working moves, you fall constantly. I was out on Saturday working on my latest project and I probably fell twenty times. Honnold worked Freerider extensively and no doubt fell a lot while getting it all dialed in.
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Do any of you modern Colorado people have an opinion of Colorado Springs these days for startups or tech or really anything?

I went to school there (CC) but that was back in the early 90's so I'm not exactly up on things, but I've long considered reconnecting with the area, finding an excuse to open a satellite office or something.

In my memory the Springs was pretty sleepy and outside of the small little hippie commune liberal arts college was mostly comprised of retired or military or both.

Does Colorado Springs figure at all in Colorado's business/tech scene?
To be serious enough for immediate firing its a hell of a lot - this is with my industrial relations hat on BTW.
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Neither men nor women are thay much stupid. We are talking about unethical and morally wrong behavior, not stupidity anyway.
> There's lots of uses for random but predictable numbers, e.g. adding random fuzz to a test suite run that you'd like to be able to repeat.

One thing to note though, different platforms don't necessarily implement the rand() function the same way, the standard does not define an algorithm for it, so unless you want your tests to run differently on every different C library it might not be the best idea to begin with.
Isn't CAN very limited in terms of bandwidth? Seems like this wouldn't be appropriate for most applications of interest? When I worked at an equipment manufacturer, everyone was very concerned about accidentally saturating the bus, and we even had a very compact data representation.
Taking the fun out of sport, for profit. :)
Hm, maybe it depends on where you attended college. I usually didn't attend lectures but between assignments, exams, and discussion sections, college was by a million miles the most productive learning environment of my life.

I orient my career around learning but there's always this little nagging "ultimately the needs of the employer are paramount when push comes to shove" that rears it head every once in a while and prioritizes work I'm already good at over stuff I'd be learning by doing.
tighten the rules by using technology and criminals will use technology to break the rules - murders by drone
I see no evidence that speed is meaningful re recent MVPs.

Harper, Trout, Stanton, Bryant, Donaldson, Cabrera, Posey, Josh Hamilton, Pujols, Votto, Pedroia, Ryan Howard, Morneau, Mauer - none of them are defined by speed. Trout has stolen a few bases, but he's not particularly fast.

The actual results indicate it's quite the opposite, MVP hitters have been on the slower side. Power very clearly matters more than speed. What nearly all the last 20 MVP hitters have in common is substantial power production, while being on the slow side.
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Thanks for your suggestion, I will check them out, but can we please not have the absurd chemical phobia here on HN?

Oils are chemicals too.
Do you mean people won't work in factories but instead sit around and collect profits, or do you mean people will work in factories but own them cooperatively, or that people will work but not in factories but in some other type of economic enterprises, or what?

And could you give me a link where this is described in more detail, including addressing various possible objections?
windows has two ipv6 addresses on every capable interface by default* : a constant one and a temporary one. neither is based on the MAC AFAIK.

[ * ] caveats apply
It's honestly ridiculous they don't allow for offline read mode. I needed to check a previous message in a channel, but nope, completely useless.
12k is quite small I have worked in big companies where we had more engineers in our single division that Google has employees.
Climbing is quite safe and certainly less injury-inducing than eg snowboarding or skiing (as my damaged MCL will attest).

Go to a climbing gym and learn how climbing works. You'll see there's nothing much to worry about and you can focus on having fun. Climbing is the best thing there is, in my horribly biased opinion.
> - GC types in WebAssembly. That's still an open problem, but that would give you API access.

I've seen numerous discussions about integrating WebAssembly with the JavaScript heap. That might not require full GC; ownership semantics might suffice (such that either wasm or JS can own the object at any given time, and within the wasm world it can use wasm memory management).

> - Ability to load WebAssembly via something like <script>.

What we have today seems very close to that in practice.

> - WebAssembly would have to load and start as quickly as JS.

A combination of a fast bytecode interpreter and compiled code caching could probably manage that. Or a fast, targeted JIT.

> Note also that GC types would make it harder to compile existing languages to wasm, since those GC types will probably have to have JS semantics built into them from the start to allow API interoperability. So, even if wasm succeeds in the way you'd like, it would probably mean that the language of the web is still something JavaScriptey.

Still an improvement, but also see above about ownership semantics.
Ha nice...never seen a single one in the wild...they probably filter by location (me: EU).
I think they're just being sarcastic and saying as many things as possible to scare people away from their beloved state, by throwing out a bunch of stereotypes about it.
Another pro-tip: you can install the Stripe iOS app and get realtime payment success/failure notifications. Not good if you have 10,000+ customers but useful if you have <1000 customers.
I really appreciate that series, but my one criticism is that it does not connect concepts to how they are used. Maybe it's just me, but I get a much stronger intuition if I imagine what's happening when I apply the concepts, and I think it's just low hanging fruit for him to enshrine that series as possibly one of the best resources out there if he took a few minutes here and there to walk through details of application.
Honnold needs the following to do what he did: Absolute fearlessness, talent (most couldn't ever do what he did even with years of practice), and discipline (to train like crazy).

People like Honnold are pretty rare.
I think they might have been sarcastic there, but I wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood where white people were the supermajority. I grew up outside NYC and live in New Haven now and I get totally freaked out by rural areas where you don't see a black person for weeks. Just feels off.
Change it then, the sooner the better
Talk to them.

Have a conversation about "how would you solve this (real) problem" - the same kind of conversation you have with a peer when they're stuck on a problem. If both you and they are professional developers, you will be able to get into a nice in-depth discussion of the pros and cons, and go into nice tangental discussions along the way.

If they aren't a professional developer, it will show in no time at all; the longest I've let such a conversation go was 10 minutes just to see how long the interviewee would keep trying and snowball me.

I've found this is simply much faster and more informative about their experience with subjects that matter in the daily work of a software dev.
She had top secret clearance prior to being hired by Pluribus in February. She was formerly in the Air Force and apparently specialized in Middle Eastern languages. Apparently, top secret clearance is renewed every 5 years [0], so she may have had carte blanche to do what she wanted for a few years.

[0] http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/security-clearance-jobs...
Potter also died falling off a cliff, in a wingsuit. If only they had stuck to more sensible pursuits, such as free soloing!
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> Only one popular consumer OS has prevented the installation of alternate browsers and everyone looks the other way.

iOS doesn't prevent the installation of alternate browsers. It prevents alternate browsers from running their own HTML renderer. Preventing alternate browsers might be legally actionable if Apple had a monopoly; preventing alternate HTML renderers is decidedly not.
The BBC buggered this up in an article when they covered it.

Comparing it to the Dawn Wall climb completely misses the point and illustrates how misunderstood the sport is. Freeing a previously seemingly impossible-to-climb route is not the same kind of achievement as solo'ing an established route that, in the case of Honnold, he'd already climbed a dozen times or more.

They're both astounding, but for different reasons. It's a shame the media is comparing the two, as it would seem to diminish Jorgeson and Caldwell's achievement.
It is mostly a question of terminology. Around here, "startup" is defined as hyper-growth, because YC chose to define it that way and HN came from YC. In other places, it can have a more flexible definition. So while most of the audience here will absolutely agree that you don't need VCs or insane growth to start a business, on HN, that would be coined as a "lifestyle" company, not a "startup". (And in my mind, more power to anyone who goes that route.)
So you can't be the exploitative middleman, but home care workers are still able to work directly for the people in their care, at a rate they both agree on? Seems reasonable to me, provided it doesn't also mean there can't be any kind of marketplace or clearing house that connects workers with people who would like to employ them.
Modern IDEs can do many of the refactorings required when modifying code, yes. But you still need to know where to find seams or how to create them. Refactorings are just tools for getting there. It doesn't seem like you have read the book.
Fair enough, that's a deserved criticism. I thought I had used slightly different wording, and didn't confirm before responding.

What I was attempting to communicate is that there are a few first hand accounts, and numerous news articles and blogs expounding on what those mean. I didn't mean to imply that those that had those experiences were not referring to their own experiences, or that they were being untruthful, but I understand how either of those might have been interpretations of my words. I'll leave them as they are because I don't believe in whitewashing, and let this stand as the correction.

While I think it's important to get both sides of the story, I don't view both sides with the same level of trust. I think those with the accusations are far more likely to have accounts closer to reality in this case, but closer to reality doesn't mean they are accurate representations of the situation when taken by themselves. Confirmation bias is real, and doesn't have to have such an extreme effect as to change someone's opinion to still have a large effect on how people perceive the situation.
I think so, but it requires me to call them to set up, I hate calling and being put on hold.

And also, phone calling usually involves walking out to the street so I can get reception, yell my social security number in front of a bunch of strangers walking by, and somehow verify my account number and various transactions from my account which I can't do without going back inside, logging in from a computer and checking them, and then having the call dropped because I went inside. Or having my phone battery cop out halfway through being put on hold.

I hate phone calling. It's easier to bike to my property manager's office 12 times to drop off checks than make a single phone call to my bank to set up something that should be doable from a web page.
For BASE jumping, many start with sky diving or jumping from relatively easy exits like bridges.

Most free solo climbers climb with a rope for the majority of their climbs, although exceptions like Paul Preuss exist. They often rehearse free solo projects many times on rope before going free solo, although there a notable cases of 'onsight' free solos like Hansjörg Auer's 'Weg durch den Fisch'. In the case discussed here, Alex Honnold apparently climbed Freerider around a dozen times on rope and rehearsed the crux pitch many more times. He did take several falls on the route, one of them spraining his ankle last summer.
I don't think we will see IPv6 eliminating IPv4 within the next 10 years. As long as IPv6 is used in parallel there is really no advantage since IPv4 depletion is still an issue and you need to use both. Since switching and routing IPv6 is more expensive the current hardware in use won't even be able to handle all the load and until every switch and router (at home and in the datacenter) is replaced 10 years will go by in no-time.

Also, most people who ask for IPv6 for their VMs or whatever don't even have any use for it. IPv6 will be a huge mess, if I only think about sending emails via IPv6, how should that even work properly?
Fast guys that can place hits have always been extremely rare (and will always be), even when they were considered a lot more valuable. There may be ten guys in the last 50 years that could do that at a high level, consistently, for a career.
To simplify things, let's say the McDonald's owner owns the property. If his profit drops to $1.25 million per year, but he can sell the property and invest the proceeds so that he earns $1.3 million per year, then the activity will cease. Even if a McDonald's is profitable, something else may be even more attractive when costs change.
Please consider supporting Carddav as much as is sensible! It's the existing open standard.

I spent an unreal amount of time gardening my list after tearing myself away from Gmail and Facebook.