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I would like something that increases parental involvement or at least oversight of their kids. 1:1s and close contact with your manager or team in problem solving is invaluable. What does that mean in the context of a classroom? Is it valuable? Teachers probably have 120 kids at some level so it may not scale.. And I think it's to early or weird to have kids participate in a stand up but an app to help parents understand what kids are working on and how they can help would be interesting. How can you improve the feedback loops. I think kids hit critical periods where they don't understand something and may not have the skills necessary to solve so providing some sort of peer pair (programming?) may help? Maybe start this in AP CS or a high school programming class or something and see if it is effective.

The other idea is work/life balance for kids in school. How do you monitor that and help them? I think kids have more energy but at the same time need downtime etc.. What does that mean in the context of education etc..?
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* A solid understanding of security technology. I don't expect a CISO to be able to field-strip a firewall or jump in and take the place of one of her line analysts, but I do expect the CISO to understand firewall technologies and talk intelligently about why they're important. One of the CISO's jobs is advocating for security controls with other business organizations, which necessitates the ability to talk intelligently and in layman-understandable terms about what those controls entail, what those technologies do, and why they're important. A CISO who doesn't understand what a digital certificate is will have a hard time arguing for protecting them or will accept weak protections because they sound stronger than they are. Worse, a CISO who doesn't understand security solidly may call for implementing controls that don't make sense or that don't afford any protection, or will focus too heavily on one area while neglecting another. The amount of technological know-how in the CISO will likely vary according to company and org size: the CISO of a small company will likely also be the security person and therefore should be very security-tech-savvy; the CISO of a large corporation will likely be much further removed from the console glass because their scope is much larger. In the latter case, you would expect the CISO to have a solid organization of very security-tech-savvy people to whom the CISO would listen closely and trust to make good recommendations. (This latter part seems to get overlooked.)

* CISOs must understand risk, and be able to articulate it in a balanced picture to non-security people. CISOs who always say no and couch risk in the most apocalyptic terms are actively disabling their companies; CISOs who always say yes and couch risk in the gentlest terms are setting their company up for Equifax-level failures. The old saying is "A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are for"--the CISO needs to be able to let the ship sail when appropriate while still pointing out the reefs on the map.

* Along similar lines, the CISO needs to understand her particular company and its industry well. If you don't understand what makes the company money, you may wind up arguing for controls that cut profits or hinder business. CISOs also need to understand and anticipate trends in their industry and as a whole. Cloud, containers, agile development, devops, these are all huge trends in the industry right now, and a good CISO will see them coming and have considered where to fit them in (or where to say "nope, can't do that (right now)...and here's why") so when the business pops up and says, 'We want to do that!' she can explain what's possible, what's reasonable, and where the risks are for their particular business. A healthcare company with extensive HIPAA and Fedramp regulations is going to have an entirely different approach to the cloud than a software-focused startup working on a new social media solution!
How does that make things worse or change the situation?
Did ancient Earth have a more Venus-like atmosphere? If not, what's responsible for the difference? Is it due to the extra solar energy that Venus receives?
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This is scary if accurate.

For people unfamiliar with Keychain, the problem as I understand it is not that unsigned apps can do this per se (though I don't think this is a good idea), it's that they can do this without user intervention.

The normal flow for Keychain is that when an app wants access to a keychain item that was not created by that app, it has to ask for user permission to allow once or always allow access. It sounds like this isn't happening in this case.

(Aside: it used to be possible to trivially access all website passwords in Safari too (which I dutifully reported as a bug, because it was a terrible design choice), but Apple thankfully changed this to require authentication in new versions of Safari.)
Bootstrap at least provides a way to pull in only components that you need. I would argue for a more modular jQuery.

There are some projects that don't require all that jQuery provides, and sometimes you want to min-max performance and size of JS that gets downloaded.

Keep in mind that jQuery is maintained and contributed to by more than 16 developers so you are technically sourcing things from multiple developers, just so happens they are in a single library.

Again, it really depends on what you're doing with your project and what you need for your project. Most developers include jQuery by default because it's just the most common and most used library, and PlainJS offers an alternative which I think is great.
I would ask where do you work and what sort of industry are you in?

W/O knowing anything about your situation sounds like some sort of financial services job.
> Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS.

Microsoft pretty clearly wants 100% telemetry about everything you do on your computer - to the point where they will explicitly override user settings to the contrary - so you are underestimating the scope of their motivation
It’s an all Intel ssd array. Not supported by Apple in any way though. I guess it’ll be skipped.
It’s like China and England are competing to see who can have the least amount of Internet freedom.
> white and Victorian

Those are racist/culturalist jabs meant to signal ingroup status to other bigots.

There is no deeper meaning behind why white and Victorian as opposed to Arab and working to establish the Caliphate or numerous other examples we can draw.

It's simply safe to express that kind of bigotry (and even popular in some groups).
Sadly, I don't think the market is that big. I think Lightroom is going to monopolize it unless they get really lazy.
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Umm, isn't The Orville a parody of (primarily) Star Trek? (I have not watched it.) I can't reconcile "parody" with "spiritual sequel". One would possibly make me laugh, the other is often a metaphor for more serious issues IRL.
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Dear Science Fiction Writers: Stop Being So Pessimistic
> China being the world's giant copy machine has worked very well for those in power in China.

Yes, but that's not OPs point, I think. What I think OP means is that the west doesn't have to worry (much) about China becoming the world's main innovation spot, because with censorship, the best they can do is copy. In a weird way, this is good for the western world.
Thanks! Is there any reason you don't have web app?
How does one block that many people? Does twitter offer bulk blocking capabilities?
Interesting. For those who know Germany, it's often said that even if the economic numbers are high, there's a lot of poor workers that need two jobs to live. Is it true ? true but only a small % ? normal according to you ?
What is that supposed to mean and how does it make it less absurd?
This caused me to search for very high temperature semiconductors. It turns out there are some rated for 300 to 400C operation. This mission seems to require 450C+ but that's close. This seems like another area where RISC-V would be very beneficial, as the companies that make very high temperature chips could benefit greatly from an open instruction set with simple free designs. One company had 8051s rated over 200C, but that arch is a bit dated.
This is a bit naive. I can sympathize but it's just not how things work. Nobody is forcing you to start a company and the equity you're building and convinced investors buy into should be your main focus. That being said, I do believe in founders paying themselves a liveable salary.
> It's not a 'hippie dippy idea' in 2017 to have a 'Black Woman' in charge of something.

I completely agree! But neither is it "saddling the show with SJWism and PC culture." It's just... a normal, unremarkable thing, which as you say the vast majority of people won't care about one way or the other.
I like diversity, but "Fck white dudes lol" likely isn't helping anyone.

Promoting diversity using affirmative language only should be possible. And white guys's feelings are important, too.
It'd obviously be a nice property of systems if they were efficient at any scale. But currently we have two kinds of systems, designed for small and large scale.
May I point out - to YC and others interested in the space - their is a fairly large market for continuing education. Nurses, accountants, lawyers, and lots of other industries require practitioners keep up to date and take courses throughout their professional career. Perhaps their are not enough students to warrant a massive big name startup, but there are definitely enough students for a reasonable sized businesses.
I'm currently on a buisness trip in china, had to switch to wire which is still working.
I personally think that the issue is orthogonal, but correlated.

Liberal policies in the US are highly correlated with high population density. Even in red states, the cities are mostly outposts of blue politics; even in California, the rural landscapes are dominated by red politics.

Communities seem a bit like ponzi schemes, or are at least creatures of inertia. If the community is growing, it exudes promise and hope and more people are interested in moving there. Growth leads to job openings, which leads to more growth. The inverse is dire. When cities go bankrupt or when rural areas lose residents faster than they replenish them, it becomes a downward spiral and a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Rural areas don't sustain themselves. Urban or "hip" suburban areas have a much better chance at sustaining. College towns constantly have fresh blood (so long as the college stays out of bankruptcy).

I think cities thrive despite the friction created by more socially liberal policies and higher taxation. It's far easier to pivot your business and there are more serendipitous events in densely populated areas with highly educated people. I suspect people would prefer to move to a place with a reasonable social safety net as religious institutions lose the prestige they once had in the US. Perhaps in liberal areas people don't have to fear the social darwinism of the similar situation in a state+county with no funds to help the poor/homeless.

The obvious counter-example to "liberal policy places thrive" is Detroit. Detroit had very liberal policies in a state with very strong labor laws. After car manufacturers moved their manufacturing to cheaper labor areas (the US south and other countries), Detroit's population collapsed to less than 50% of it's peak.
Making offshoring of manufacturing more expensive would be a big start. Require that companies only offshore with countries with the same environmental and worker protections the US has or better.

Companies offshore manufacturing because the labor is cheap and the environmental regulations are slim.

Automation has taken a large chunk of the manufacturing jobs of the 1970s, but bringing even automated manufacturing back would boost auxiliary businesses in the towns.
I would say instead, "Manage conflicts". That is, be able to constructively disagree with management above, below, and at your level, manage a reasonable discussion while advocating strongly for your position, and accept defeats and later "told you so" moments with grace and class.
>>If you are "guilty" (of terrorism or contiguity with it) you now know that you can refuse to give away your password, effectively preventing the police to read your data and maybe in one year time you will get a slap on the wrist

Actually I think is why the law was passed, so the cops can keep harassing the people on a likely terrorist cell hoping they slip. Time and time again. Slap on a wrist? Not if it's one after the other. It's not like London doesn't have the police manpower
>feel like a single continuous 1990’s moment, a moment that began in a renewed liberal optimism for multiculturalism and progress and the general advancement of humanity.

and

>Why did science fiction stop moving forward.

Maybe because lots of sci-fi was optimistically wrong about the future of humanity? Or should I say that sci-fi covers both the good and bad things that could potentially happen. Some people don't realize the federation in Star Trek story was born from the ashes of a world war 3. If they made a show that covered that point of ST history it would still be science fiction, it would just be rather dark.

Also on the points of multiculturalism. When Star Trek was originally airing, there was little else on the air broadcasting a similar message. Now a large portion of TV is very multicultural, some of it to the point it forgets to have a story about anything else.
Someone is triggered.

Your tendency to use abc and nydailynews is killing people.
There are always services like mailinator
I've noticed this in the past. Subscribing to Hanlon's Razor (never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity) I always assumed it was because users were upgrading to the next major release of iOS, which had additional features, and was optimized for the next generation of iOS devices (not the current).
Not only is this not computer vision, but the image processing employed is quite naive and the results are poor. One need only move the Simplify slider all the way to the right on the default N/S America globe icon and then start inching it back to the left to see a solid example of this. I'm aware that I'm being very dismissive here, but the "it uses computer vision" marketing bs really grinds my gears.

It looks like it's just doing server-side http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/morphology/#basic

Hello massive diamond kernels.
The 5 points according to the video:

1) Married Priscilla Chan

2) Learned Mandarin

3) Joined Tsinghua University

4) Befriended Xijinping

5) Offered to let Xijinping name firstborn

Personally I have trouble believing 1 and 5 were to get Facebook products into China unabridged. 5 sounds like a joke at a dinner party.
Good question. I'd say that the ties back to imperialist days on Earth are there because (1) it's a popular idea to hate this part of history, and (2) despite having lead characters who are asian and black, the show is still implied to be "white enough" for the comparison to be justified.

The claim is that Star Trek's premise is a problem because it makes the flawed assumption that one culture can be better than another, and by extension, that all cultures must be valued and respected equally. Without going into the cultures of humanity in Star Trek versus the Klingons, you can examine similar claims closer to home even where some cultures are deeply invested in medieval-level cruelty like stoning of homosexuals and adulterers, female genital mutilation, and inhumane punishment by knife and cane. But these realities don't fit the author's narrative, and therefore must be ignored for the purposes of the thesis. Like Klingons, they're a benign minority who are simply misunderstood by their would-be cultural oppressors.

The article's ostensibility about science-fiction, and managed to stay on point for the first couple paragraphs, but it quickly devolved into the author's pet theories on race and gender. I really had trouble with these sorts of broad and totally unfair generalizations:

> Uhuru was a service worker and Worf was a punching bag; when the show made a black captain, was it a coincidence that the show also became “darker” and less optimistic, when its characters started to be “flawed” and “ambiguous”? Voyager had a female captain, but it marooned her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy (and the less said about the garbage politics of the reboot movies, the better).
You say that as those jQuery is the only place you can get a addClass function without writing it yourself. It isn't.
there is an extra but critical reason that I somewhat know why the censorship is getting tougher these days, it has something to do with https://twitter.com/kwokmiles

this guy is nowadays' Don Quixote, one person against a powerful government and really made a crack there, this battle has been on for 8 months and it gets more and more interesting as he is challenging the most powerful group of men in China with corruption evidence gathered over the years,each case is weighted more than 100 billion dollars wealth.

to give you two incidents over the last 8 months: 1. VOA(voice of america) live interview with him was stopped in the middle as the leaked info is too strong. 2. youtube was DDOS-ed-to-death for a while when he started live streaming two months ago, which is said never happened before.
Yet in a way it looks shittier. For example, take the two first sets of Star Wars trilogies.

In the originals, the battle for the Death Star holds up.

In the prequels, you can see Jedi wildly waving their lightsabers at nothing because the CGI team forgot to animate in certain places.

In the originals, Yoda was a puppet, and his skin and clothing reflected light realistically. So what if his mouth movements had all of the nuance and subtlety of a novelty nutcracker? Imagination bridged the gap between what we saw and what we experienced.

In the prequels, Yoda was CGI, so he didn't have physical depth in the way the other actors did, and didn't reflect light in the same way as the physical cast, and it gave him an eerie, Photoshopped look.

CGI can make special effects look more realistic, but they also have a way of preventing things from actually looking real.
I would much rather the odd "outspoken jihadist" remains free than live under an oppressive police-state with no privacy rights. And that's exactly where we're headed.
WeChat is the replacement for WhatsApp, fully compliant with Chinese censorship controls.

What's mildly disturbing is that many Chinese Americans, both American citizens and not, living in the US use WeChat. They use it because of their cultural and social ties with China. Chinese tourists as well have had increasingly better integration inside the US as well, which would only serve to spread the usage of WeChat to anyone who interacts with Chinese tourists. Tencent is slowly but surely gaining a foothold inside the United States as they roll out more features abroad that made it popular in China.

Are they suspect to these controls as well, despite not being within China? More importantly, whats the legal status of a Chinese corporation with the capability of invading its users privacy under Chinese law, if some users are neither not in China or not Chinese citizens?
If you search for classList on npm you get a half dozen results. I disagree with your assessment here.
People tolerate the authoritarian government because of the rapid improvements in standard of living. Once living standards plateau we will see growing unrest and a gradual shift to a more open government (or a violent revolution).
They're actually blocking to increase innovation and future growth... of domestic products. Not being subject to a foreign chat app monopoly (although Whatsapp wasn't even close to that) is what they're trying to avoid.
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Somewhat off topic but somewhat related, I have tried a whole bunch of different smart watches and activity trackers, and my current favorite is made by Skagen.

Specifically, the "Signatur Connected Leather Hybrid Smartwatch". It looks like an analog watch, but it has smart watch functions and connects to your phone with bluetooth.

Favorite things about it: It has an analog subdial that shows progress towards your daily step goal. It has three 'real' analog buttons that you can connect to just about any function on your phone. I have one button mapped to start/stop any music that is playing. Another button moves the hour and minute hands to point to the date. The third button sets off the ringer on my phone.

And the battery is a normal watch battery, which should last between 6 months and a year. Check it out, I think it hits the right balance between minimal analog watch and smart functions.
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So, er, it's a coat, with some crap sewn into it, and that crap has something to do with telephones?
You mean that the actual physical habits of people are factors to consider ? And if those aren't recreated, the work won't go as well ?
As someone who has lived in the southern United States for over 30 years I can say with confidence that America did not leave these people behind... They left themselves behind.
A lot of people use VPNs to access foreign services. It's quite popular to use Instagram in China, even though it's blocked.
He compares - with snark - the papers' authors' 160-core cluster (etc.), as reported by those authors, with a re-implementation running on his laptop. That is, the papers get 160 cores to his 1-2, and he still wins.
> So in short, the algorithm can't determine colour.

That's right. But with the caveat that a large training set can determine plausible colors and rule out implausible ones. This is more true for faces than for shoes! The point is that there is some correlation between shape and color in real life. The color comes from the context in the training set. This is what @cbr meant nearby re: "skin color is relatively predictable from facial features (ex: nose width), it should be able to do reasonably well."

There are CNNs trained to color images, and they do pretty well from training context: http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/

> there is a very big line between 'reconstituting' or 'reconstructing' an image and 'synthesising' or 'creating' an image, and it appears many people are blurring the two together.

Yep, exactly! Synthesis != enhance.
Yet again, Minnesota bucks the trend. Wonder why they keep doing so well while the rest of the middle states flounder.

By bucking the trend I mean that compared to most other states it appears to be very comfortable and prosperous across the state in most but not all counties at least according to this map. I’ve seen similar findings in New Yorker and in the NYT too.

Edit: is there something MN is doing that we could all learn from? They weren’t apart of the North Dakota oil boom really so I don’t think it’s that.
It's not K-12, but some of you may be interested in reading this paper about the online exams service at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

http://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/478
What's more, your deleted comment is why they will continue to have a difference of opinion with you.
You only notice the bad CGI - most TV shows, even a normal sitcom, have a ton of CG that you would never realize unless you saw the raw shots. It's what the audience expects and demands today. Things are getting more efficient but quality level has risen even faster.

Here's a good video, from 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k

And 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhN1STep_zk