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You could learn to do coding by working remotely, but I think a key thing is finding someone to help point the way toward what you need to learn. In a cheap town without much going on, you might have more time to focus. But how do you connect with someone to guide you.
EFF only takes on a limited scope of cases though.

Can't protect any & everyone.
I'm sure she did. Multiple attorneys reached out to her in the original twitter thread.
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Quite seriously, post-oil technology is a moral imperative.

Putting people on a cruise ship is not a moral action, but getting them home safely is. The discovery and initial widespread use of oil was not moral. But now that we're here, getting off of it's dependency is, because it cannot last forever at current technology levels and without it we cannot feed seven, eight, etc billion people.

If we discover no new technology, if we do not switch off of oil, it slowly gets more expensive and depleted, and then billions die because the population cannot be sustained without the intensive energy needed to produce food and transport it.

So that's what I mean: It is a moral imperative that we create tech to replace oil
(or at least as a stop-gap, find more as we've been doing). We think of the future too little, but those human lives are just as real.

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/the-moral-technology-6413ca...

(As I said elsewhere, if you say "we'll always find new and cheaper ways of extracting oil," then you already agree with me, you just picked a different technology. We still have the moral imperative to find that technology.)
downloadable link here:

http://southasiainstitute.harvard.edu/website/wp-content/upl...

For context, Flexner was the founder of the Institute for Advanced Study where he fostered an academic culture based on letting the faculty do whatever they felt like.
> I can think of half a dozen ways to attract applicants in a way that'd significantly increase the quality of the applicants while at the same time significantly decreasing the number of the applicants.

Like what?
It's very difficult to figure out what the core of your argument is. We can't create simulated video indistinguishable from real life, and I've given you an experiment that will prove that we can't.

You haven't demonstrated that multiplying doesn't work, you've only stated an opinion. I'd like to see some examples of what you mean, because it appears to work very well from where I'm sitting.

It's not an opinion that multiplying colors has nothing to do with how light behaves in real life. I even said that it was an approximation that works fairly well, so if you're going to simply ignore the things that I did say, this discussion isn't going anywhere productive. The point is that it's an approximation, and it's partly why we subconsciously recognize simulated video as fake.

Every year Autodesk runs the test "Fake or Foto"

Obviously, photos don't work. It doesn't pass the realism test. This conversation is about video -- the human visual system processes video completely differently. It's not just a matter of taking still frames and stringing them together. The test is invalid. If you use video (of non-trivial length, with non-trivial scene complexity -- any nature video will do fine), you'll see the participants' accuracy skyrocket to nearly 100% correctly identifying simulated video.

If you're truly curious about the reasons why a simulated video looks fake, look into some books about the neuroscience of visual processing and color perception. One of the fundamental tenets is that colors affect colors around them. To make something that looks real, you need to get the colors exactly right. Even a small departure from reality will ruin the entire effect. That's partly why multiplying colors is problematic, since it results in a departure from real life behavior. The other half of this is to ignore any test involving still frames. We don't perceive still frames the same way as video -- it's why video compression is different, for example -- so we can't use stills in any test of realism.

Whenever someone points out that we really don't have a clue how to make simulated video indistinguishable from real life, someone comes out of the woodwork to point out all the reasons why it's right around the corner. That's been false for a decade, and it's not looking any better for the upcoming decade. It's easy to prove me wrong: Get a bunch of simulated videos together and show them to observers, mixed with real videos. They'll spot the real videos every time, if you don't use constrained or simplified scenes. Nature videos work well.

It seems like people just don't like the idea that graphics programming is a bag of tricks. They want it to be deeper. But you can throw in all the physically-based techniques you want, and the resulting video still won't look real.

I have to go to an appointment now, but maybe we can continue this in a few hours if you want.
> It’s not entirely clear why the University of Washington team gets such a weird result — since their data isn’t public, we can’t check it — but it’s worth noting at least two important issues with their study.

I cannot understand how economic studies are supposed to be credible when the data they use is not provided along with their methodology.

Is this for privacy reasons? If so, surely we can come up with obfuscation standards?
The housing market has become 'lopsided' and it's bad news for first-time buyers
So what's the difference now between getting your news from there or from Facebook? It sounds like Google News is going to be the same kind of echo chamber that other news sources become :(

Please don't take this as a criticism of your chosen (or dischosen) news sources, as I'm sure I can find someone replying to this thread who is removing the sources you like as well.
That is an excellent idea. And then elongate the screwthread spacing as it gets nearer to the drop off point to separate the pieces further.
I have had a few cases where a voice has intruded when I was tired, but not about to fall asleep (in one case I was driving). In each case the voice was not talking to me at all, and it was just a snippet, less than a sentence, and then it's gone and does not recur. It is almost as if I am eavesdropping on a bit of random conversation. I have never experienced a visual hallucination (and I have never taken any drugs that could cause either).
> not so good for the urban resident trying to get a cooked dinner in front of his family every meal.

Vegetables from the farm is how I create meals every day, plus legumes and nuts from the bulk food store, probably 90+% of my calories. I don't buy packaged food. My vegetables come from the farmers market and farm share.

I bring compost through Manhattan because I love living here and the alternative is putting it into landfills, which I'm not willing to do. It means carrying a few pounds a few blocks maybe once a month to where I was going anyway to get vegetables that are more delicious, healthy, and cheap than any alternative.

These are all improvements to my life.
But, perhaps more relevant, the post doesn't say "flagged" on my end (which I'm pretty sure they do when they're flagged).
I think most of the non-bracket "punctuation" in Racket is caused by the kebab-case identifiers and to a lesser degree by ? and ! in function names.

So in fact "Other languages have more punctuation characters than Lisp." is not an objective statement at all, since it relies on the definition of punctuation, which is subjective or at least language-specific.
I would argue that building livable, walkable cities with solid public transport is a more "moral" goal. Think of megacities like Tokyo.

(but electric transport is good too) :)
I wonder how long before someone leverages celebrity to launch a new coin. The barrier to entry is so low, and everyone wants to get in on the ground floor of "The Next BitCoin".

A decent marketing campaign and an easy-to-use purchase flow could blow up a new cryptocoin pretty quickly.
Heck a transaction count could easily be part of a pump and dump scheme.
You would think that in such dire times, the Five Eyes would want adopt a stronger policy towards security and less towards leaving every PC and smartphone vulnerable to attacks to make surveillance easier. Instead, they're now getting ready to discuss how to backdoor devices and encryption at the upcoming Five Eyes and G20 meetings.
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I never said anything about adding additional car lanes. My point was, that removing trees to add a bike lane can be a good thing. Yes, it is unfortunate to remove a historical tree, but if it makes bicycling safer and takes more cars off the road, why not?
You're saying that like it is a bad thing.
Because it's unnecessarily tactless and bordering on hurtful. Learning how to give honest feedback without being so cutting is a skill the commentor should learn.
Why should we consider a separate "map market"? For consumers, there might just be an "information market. Sometimes an image would be the right form of information; sometimes a map; sometimes a video etc.

Trying to cleave out different verticals from a search engine would be a major disadvantage to consumers.
"Welcome to the family, please change who are you".

It's not that they're necessarily wrong- alcohol at the office has a lot of consequences, liability, etc, and discouraging swearing can foster a less aggressive environment. It's just that they should know who and what they were buying. Jet had a culture of its own, and that culture included alcohol and swearing. I read the other day that the founder owns a vineyard, and is a big wine lover, sharing his love with his company.

Culture is hard, and critical to any company. Coming in and saying "change your culture" is dangerous, especially with things as visible, noticeable and enjoyable as alcohol. It leaves the question of "what will they change next?".
I legitimately don't understand the odd obsession in the US with swearing.

Do you arbitrarily categorise words as "bad," then you ban such words in a lot of everyday circumstances, and therefore such words are made pointless.

Why even have swearing if it cannot be used? Elsewhere in the English speaking world, these are commonly used words with specific emotional attachments, in the US you "offend" people or get gasped at if you utter the forbidden phrases.

At least with certain racist phases I can understand the rational. Because you want to "discontinue" those words from existing. Not so with regular swearing.
You are incorrect. Because of past decisions, we have a population that cannot be supported without oil. Oil that will run out or become prohibitively expensive, some day.

We have a moral imperative to find "the next technology." We may have more than a hundred years to do so, but your level of optimism in the timing does not change the morality of the imperative.

(If you say "we'll always find new and cheaper ways of extracting oil," then you already agree with me, you just picked a different technology. We still have the moral imperative to find that technology.)
Stats, sir. Stats. Plus, some killer search functionality obviously.
I'm confused. Is this list automated or curated? "Curated by machine" seems like an oxymoron.
Ask the central bank of Bangladesh what happened with theirs.

http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/bank-hacking-malware.html
Rewriting in C++ would be a better and more practical choice though. Mostly because you can rewrite one component at a time.
When I was a child (5 or 6) I remember often hearing voices – sometimes muttering, sometimes shouting angrily. It was often when I was sick, or suffering from a fever. It stopped happening I guess, but I still wonder if that's normal?
That's quite odd. All the Germans I know are fastidious about getting proper breaks/time off/holidays/etc.
will be curious is this pro article gets flagged off as fast as the previous story which wasn't supportive.

last i checked the UW was requested by the city and journalist and .gov email addressed users all have access to the study, so this claim that its not available is the first indication the WAPO article is nothing more than predisposed piece, meaning they had an outcome and went searching for support of it. the ideology of WAPO is well known so any other result than this could not occur
"I thought everyone knew this" is a dangerous assumption. Not only are you assuming equal knowledge access but you're also assuming equal legal access. I'd argue the legal system is not equally accessible and knowledge of the system is even less accessible. I think the only safe assumption here is that Kate did _not_ know the proper way to respond to this and asked for help from the community. I would've done the same.
Maybe because being biased is a bad thing?
Taking naps is seen as a good thing, it means you are tired from too much working. In fact, some people fake it.
I played most of the way through the 1st one recently, and some of the 4th. In the mid-90s, my friend gave me a pirated copy of one of them. Maybe Keen 5? Or Keen Dreams? It had one of the piracy-protection things where you have to name the enemy to get past, and I only knew the names of 2 enemies. I'd keep exiting and re-starting the game until I found one that I knew.

Captain Comic and Commander Keen were my Super Marios until about 1995, because we had a PC but no game consoles.
But I so badly wanted to share my opinion on /r/askhn rehashing commonly-held beliefs..
Let's be honest here, though. You're not the target market if you're willing to change browsers on philosophical principle.

Principles are fine and dandy until you have to commit suicide to maintain them. Given the good Mozilla does as a going concern, becoming "that one weird browser that can't play your videos" would just result in more people using Chrome and Edge.

This kinda reminds me of the GCC/Clang thing. If I recall right, Clang got a huge influx of attention, in part, due to Stallman's unwillingness to allow GCC to export its AST.

Perhaps we need a rule for this. "The tech community interprets developer obstinance as damage, and routes around it."
The use case is user error. I have also seen no shortage accidentally people paste passwords into Slack as well
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A nap being a "necessity" doesn't necessarily mean that taking it at whatever time you want is a necessity. Take the nap before or after the release; or after service is restored. It's not that complicated.

FWIW, I don't see why it would have to be either a perk or a necessity, rather than a potential productivity booster that shouldn't be mandatory but can be beneficial to both the employee and the company. I would put things like allowing employees to listen to music on headphones while at work into the same bucket.
Laravel is a terrific framework, and if you're building the project from scratch it's my suggestion purely from a maintainability standpoint. It's widely adopted and is decoupled nicely.

Drupal is a fine off the shelf CMS that is very extensible. I'd argue it has framework like features, but with the goal to extend CMS capabilities.

I don't know enough about your use case to suggestion one over the other.
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Sure, if you want to ban drinking in the workplace I can understand (but don't agree) — it can be a liability. There will be always be a slight risk there, and it's hard to trust everyone in a larger sized company.

If my employer tried to enforce a rule as puritanical as "no swearing" my response would be "fuck you."
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I think age plays a role too- a few years ago I would have laughed at the idea of someone having to take a break and rest in the middle of an 8 hour period to regain energy. But I can now clearly see how that matters.
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Yeah, everyone should learn to code, but there is an impact of age. Not many 40 year old guitar players in current rock bands (not many current rock bands on the radio :-0). That first job is a true barrier to entry for new coders who don't come from an academic background. It's got to be harder for that older person to get a first job.
> Yes, but when my bank fails, the government backing that paper will pay up the deposit up to €50k... if the government is strong well there you go...

Eh, yeah, good luck with this. Maybe ask the citizens of Cyprus how trusting their government's promise to pay out in full on their bank accounts worked out.

The US banking system is now hugely concentrated, with a huge pile of leveraged derivatives bets being pyramided on top of depositor money. When this unravels in spectacular fashion, the choice will be to print a massive amount of new USD to paper over depositors' losses, or bail-ins. Either one will accelerate adoption of BTC to escape the depredations of fiat currencies controlled by gov't backed banking cartels.
yes, sounds feasible. AWS is the new operating system of cloud. Worth the shot. I would also recommend Openstack or a private cloud stack. Rationale is that AWS complexities will either be simplified or AWS would do the managed service quite well at least cost.
I see it differently. I see people gaming Facebook's algorithms just like people have worked to game search engine algorithms for years, in order to push their message in front of people who would be receptive to it. I don't see Facebook as the agent of that gaming which is perhaps an insignificant point as far as some in the discussion would consider but for me it is the essential point.

I see Reddit, Facebook, Topix, Google+, HN, all providing "watering holes" or a place for a community to form, and these days there is always an algorithm connected to a mechanism for the community to use to signal its approval and disapproval. In "broad" community sites like Facebook and Reddit there is an explicit 'hands off' policy on how those communities operate (until there isn't). That supports a wide number of communities and optimizes for high user counts. In "narrow" community sites like HN and various forum sites, there is an explicit 'hands on' policy which drives the community to a particular place. That optimizes for content/discussion that is highly aligned with the owner's editorial goals even at the cost of ejecting users who don't align with those goals.

The way I think about it, for a multi-community site to actively "influence" its users, the site operator would have to apply some mechanism for shaming or promoting specific communities within it. Further it would associate users with that level of compliance which would signal to them if they were 'betting better' or 'being worse'. The signalling is needed to help the users understand which way they are "supposed" to go, without that signalling it is much harder.

So multi-community sites don't (and won't) do that because it results in users leaving and taking their eyeballs with them. And ultimately the point of such sites is to collect as many people there as possible with as wide a demographic as possible, so that people can advertise goods and services to them.
A lot of this is because nobody wants to be honest.

A huge portion of "vacant" jobs are companies that maintain listings for 10 year fully stack veterans while offering $60k a year salary. Unreasonable to anyone, but the point is to dangle the carrot in case you can get super lucky and nab talent at well below market rate. It doesn't cost you anything to keep the offer on the market. They are a great excuse to complain about vacancies, though.

If there were real demand, truly authentic honest demand for work, that wasn't a known fleeting thing, humans adapt. Human history is nothing if not the demonstration that people migrate towards opportunity. It might be considered on the order of days or generations, but people will do it. So don't sit around complaining about nobody wanting to move somewhere where the salary is "competitive" but you have rigged the externalities like taxes and property ownership so far against civilians your bafflement that nobody wants to go where the "jobs" are is dastardly.
Organization is a really valuable skill.
My thought as well. There needs to be experimentation for us to learn anything. That goes especially for economics, where you often get ideology instead of evidence.
A simple one is growth. If you're at a startup, it needs to grow. If growth isn't what it should be, it's decelerating, or it's zero, that's trouble. Wait for 6-12 months (depending on size and stability of company), if it's not improving, start looking for other options.
I'm not sure either, but I would guess it's a mix. It seems like it's most of Hadley Wickham's career, for example, and there's clearly some work being done by the RStudio and Revolution Analytics folks, but a lot of the packages are clearly the product of people working on their academic or corporate jobs. My impression is that this is also true for most matlab toolboxes (though obviously not the core language), which doesn't quite explain why people use Matlab (but not Octave), versus R (and not S-PLUS)
History (in general) has numerous examples of false flags. It doesn't matter who the current players are, spies and disinformation exist, and intentionally misleading signaling happens. Accusations therefor requires at least some evidence connecting the accused to an action (or excluding everyone else).
Yet, it sounds like most of those people would rather spend more time and effort fighting raises in minimum wage than fighting those other problems.
Since it's a public key, how about via unencrypted email?
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14.04 used upstart (also used by chromeos). sysvinit was used in ubuntu prior to upstart, and there are some distros that use bsd style init. Go read up on init system options a bit more.
Seems like otherwise objective open minded people find it hard to admit ignorance and humility when the topic is political. Climate change and economics are always so hotly debated by engineers.
Then maybe 'you' should look into it since you are very interested in it. Other people already have, and they are not interested in looking into it any more. You can look at NAZI coal gassification efforts, methanol from switchgrass, all the way to efficient Hydrogen generation and storage, but it usually turns out that producing a complex molecule up a large potential gradient is not power efficient (even with the best chemistry and catalysts).
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The average home price in Seattle is over $670,000.[1] This requires a salary of $182,000 per year [2] or $87.50 dollars per hour. At $15 per hour, a full-time worker cannot afford a house in Seattle. Therefore, to avoid the injustice of a homeless, full-time worker, the minimum wage should raised to at least $87.50 per hour.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
[2] https://www.redfin.com/how-much-house-can-i-afford?utm_sourc...
Come on. Not everyone in the field signed the letter.
I would be in favor of removing the minimum wage when universal basic income is implemented. I think that would make sense.
A fairly good HN technical discussion of DNSSEC with several comments by tptacek.
It's important. If your managers hair is too on fire to structure and schedule performance reviews then it's a bad company environment. You should not accept it as ok.
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Did you use any sieves or other tricks to speed it up?