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> Beauty standards at first seem like the natural by-product of society, just an aggregate of society’s aesthetic opinions and sexual tastes. Yet, in reality, beauty standards are a set of norms that reinforce the gender and class status quo in a patriarchal society. It is a handy implement in the toolbox of oppression.

I don't know how to take seriously an article that begins like this. Cultural notions of beauty are not part of a grand conspiracy. What an absurd claim.
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I think Sun Micro had deployed those to all their engs, perh others too. I think it had a PIN which when entered displayed the code which was valid for a min.
NBC is adapting UK tech support sitcom 'The IT Crowd'
Mozilla is a company that has a long track record of dedication to openness and the free and open internet

True, and that's why I never stopped and recommending Firefox since I first installed Phoenix. That said, they're already installing and enabling Cliqz by default (for some users), and that's no bug. So it's not absurd that people might assume this isn't either. Reputation is hard to gain and easy to lose.
Some of the results I find for CTMP are Continuous Time Markov Processes. Here is a slide deck with poor kerning[0]. From an interesting slide:

Numerical solution of implicitly encoded CTMCs

If R is stored as a sparse matrix of columns, a Jacobi or GaussSeidel iteration has the cost of a vector-matrix multiplication, O(n(R))

If R is stored using implicit techniques (Kronecker algebra or decision diagrams), memory is greatly reduced but runtime can increase.

E.g., using Shuffle to compute the effect of v, (pi)^(old) . (operator)(L<k<1) R(k,v1), is slower than Sparse multiplication if the R(k,v) matrices are very sparse.

This research paper describes tracking cattle with a wireless sensor network[1].

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Or this could be Cisco Technology Migration Program[2]. They could have some sort of network probe to identify "upgrade-ready" products, which could be leveraged for other purposes.

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[0] http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~cshelton/talks/ctmp-tut.pdf

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271419298_Cattle_mo...

[2] https://www.cisco.com/web/partners/pr11/incentive/emea/tmp.h...
>>>> Most people have a bike, but would never bother taking it somewhere fancy like this to get it fixed or serviced. They paid $100 for it at Walmart.

That's probably true to a certain extent, but so called "department store bikes" have been a constant baseline of the bike industry for decades. So I think that the ups and downs of bike shops are largely independent of that baseline.

People still do buy slightly nicer bikes, and are still willing to get them serviced. At the very least, they buy those consumables. Most people need help figuring out which part will fit on their bike, and how to install it.
Yeah, you summed up perfectly one of the main counter arguments.

If the richer you are, the healthier and smarter you can make your babies, and the healthier and the smarter your babies, the more access to jobs/education/etc they get, it’s not much comfort that poor people will be somewhat better off than they were 50 years prior as the inequality gaps keep getting wider and wider.

70 years later, our society is still very much suffering the consequences of things like real estate redlining, which heavily discriminated against black people in the US. Thinking that things like targeted gene therapy and radical life extension couldn’t be harmful in the same way is either pure ignorance or delusion.
Apart from your first sentence you're actually agreeing with the article?
FF 57 installed from Debian unstable repository has "Data reporting is disabled for this build configuration" - which disabled, in theory, the shield "studies" as well. I don't know who made this decision at Debian, but thank you.
Why don't they pick H225M Caracal?
Actually, a number of people are proposing this for certain applications. It is also reasonably likely to happen, at very least the spreadsheet is being challenged which will put pressure on spreadsheet vendors and most definitely cut into their marketshare. Adding Python support to Excel seems to be an attempt to resist this.
> I don't know what reality you operate in, but hedge funds don't provide anywhere close to those types of guarantees.

Strange comment, I think I've confused you.

All this was about exchanges and what hedge funds expect from them, not guarantees about what hedge funds provide.

And you are right, exchanges do go down, and its news when they do because they are so good at what they do that its very rare.

> I don't know what reality you operate in

I operate in the US Cash Equities and options markets. What I've asked for is par for the course there, in that no one mentions it because its the very lowest base, must have requirements.:)

When was the last time you heard of Goldman Sachs begin hacked and all the hedge funds that use them as a prime loosing all their money?
As someone who got residential internet service for many years through a colocated DSLAM, paying something like $60/month, I think you are overstating your case.

Regardless, I agree it never took off as regulators intended, but my point was the intent was similar: mandatory shared last-mile infrastructure.
Not surprised to see your comment being downvoted...HN has such a double standard when it comes to certain brands/vendors.

Windows 10 sends telemetry by default? Microsoft is literally Satan incarnate! BURN THEM AT THE STAKE!!!

Firefox installs crapware addons without user permissions and signs them up to participate in "studies"? Shhhhh...it probably only an innocent bug, nothing to see here, move along now.
Slovakia here. Not sure about the eastern part of our country as I don't travel there very often, but as for the western part, we are fully integrated into the ecological disasters of western Europe. Meaning almost no insects this summer. Even mosquitoes were far from their usual numbers.
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It's difficult to think of any new and powerful technology (radio, electronics, computers, programming, viruses, even nuclear reactions) that didn't eventually become available to a teenager in their basement. The most likely end-of-world-as-we-know-it scenario is when used or home-built Crispr tech is in the hands of adolescents who think it will be fun to create a real fatal, rapidly spreading human virus, or wipe out species x, etc.
I, for one, am happy to see all my old AIM conversations deleted and lost forever.
Hahaha. You gave them permission when you agreed to their TOS. But you didn't read it, did you?
> For example, if you want to write some code that accepts any Sequence of Int values, you can't write this:

> func f(seq: Sequence<Int>) { ...

> […] Swift provides the AnySequence type to solve this problem. AnySequence wraps an arbitrary Sequence and erases its type, providing access to it through the AnySequence type instead. Using this, we can rewrite f and g:

> func f(seq: AnySequence<Int>) { ...

> […] The Swift standard library has a bunch of these Any types, such as AnyCollection, AnyHashable, and AnyIndex.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what’s the point of this?

Have all these <SomeType> and their Any<SomeType> counterpart seems like unnecessary code duplication to me.
I tried to login with several of my old accounts months ago, but they blocked the reset password option.
Requiring an ID isn’t in itself voter suppression. Actions taken that reduce (ease of) access to obtaining that ID is suppression.

A marriage also isn’t as time-sensitive as a vote, so that’s somewhat different. If someone who lacked ID goes to the poll to vote and is rejected for not having ID, this is different from going to the City Hall to register a marriage. You can do the marriage on another day. The vote, not so much.
Oppression doesn't actually require conspiracy, just an inflexible role structure enforced unthinkingly by people being conventional.
Not very innovative if somebody expects to live the rest of their life on the royalties of one book or movie. And realistically who can do that anyway? In popular culture?
I got quite a sense of whiplash just in the first page of the article. It is an article from Japan Times, with a leading photo from California, over a byline from Toronto, about an attack on equipment from a French firm in a site in Saudi Arabia.

...just in case you forgot that the internet is international.
Anyone know how I can turn off Firefox sending technical details and interactions?

Everytime I turn this off, and restart FF it's on again.

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I seem to recall that the ICQ window had a multiple modes.

One of them was individual messages, but another allowed each party to see what the other was typing in real time.

Also, if one want to talk about chat histories one should not forget about IRC.
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It's very dependent on what you're trying to explain. There's no one right answer. Do you have a specific goal in mind?
And since you is a citizen of canada now, do you also take the popcorn for stories like this?

"Suspect in Canada Terror Attack Had Been Ordered to Leave U.S."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/world/canada/canada-terro...

Glad that someone funneling money to terrorists is a cause for your celebration though. At least it makes someone besides the terrorists happy.

Clearly we lost a charmer. I'll be sure to write my congressperson.
I believe it's coming eventually, but for the moment we need workarounds like this.
FYI: For the Microservices Austria meetup I've put together a talk titled "Meet Jason - The Universal Data Exchange Format - What's Next?", find the notes (transcript) @ https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/jsonnext.md Yes, comments (in JSON 1.1), please :-). Cheers.
As somebody who is responsible for security policy: there is no good reason for any of these devices to have a public IP address. Full stop. We did fine back when they weren't networked, we don't need to start now.
Use physical objects like game tokens and a tray to represent blocks. Faster than handwriting or photocopying. Simple playing cards can also work (this "block" has 4 transactions, the AH, 2S, 3C, 10H).

Someone shuffles a handful of decks together, this creates the feed of transactions going into the network. "Blocks" are created by grabbing a random set of recent open transactions and rolling dice, like you suggest. Pair of ones and that "block" can be passed on to all the other nodes. Others can continue "mining" if they want and try to create a fork, other miners may choose to base their work on the newest block.

Have some sorted stacks of cards or tokens available to quickly assemble copies of the blocks and transactions.
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I still have my ICQ number burned into my brain. There are other, more important, numbers I should be remembering and at times cannot, but that ICQ number is there.
Hedge funds do a better job of hiding their failures than something which operates on a public ledger, because everything is done behind closed doors. Furthermore, hedge funds are very good at finding creative ways to lose money, and they have great liberty in doing so. The reporting requirements for hedge funds are relatively lax compared to, say, an index fund.
I haven't used their official client in decades, didn't even know it still existed. Trillian keeps your buddylist (along with backups) in the user data folder on Windows.
> "Dan Sotelo was the founder of Onza"

Onza stuff was awesome. Was always insanely jealous of the bar ends and clipless pedals one of my friends had.
Any network security authority worth their salt would tell this manager (and those like him) that "checking up on things" is a hopeless and useless endeavor. Like all log monitoring systems, only actionable items should be presented to end-users.

Set thresholds on monitoring systems where the monitors trigger alarms when thresholds are outside of normal operating parameters. It's monitoring 101.
I think the real issue is that people think they are pro-environment, and so think that people they disagree with on related issues must surely then be the opposite - anti-environment. I think it’s a sad indication of how polarised people think things are and how little they try to understand and be reasonable.
Without a doubt. The root of many difficulties is SQL-X using NULL as a Not Set State instead of as a Value.

However, Value representations have their own issues, which can be seen in vulnerabilities that have occurred in non-SQL where the corresponding checks had not been performed.

In response to this is error based exceptions. Tradeoffs that we all live with.
I just checked my installation of Firefox and this addon was present as well. The developers involved (Greg Lind et al) should acknowledge this and apologize.
Code duplication yes, but it's not unnecessary. You need them so you can write code that works on Sequences and other such things without knowing the actual implementing type.

Ideally this would not be necessary, and in some future version of Swift it probably won't be, but for now it is.
What is RISC-V? I tried reading up on it but it's just not clicking. Is it just a standard and WD is building their own chips to that standard or is it front a specific manufacturer?
More likely there are lower agricultural subsidies.
Coinbase should solve it's coinbase trust issue. I bought a small amount of litecoin almost 2 weeks ago, i'm well past my "delivery by" date, my funds left my bank account over 10 days ago, yet I still don't have my coins in my account.
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I think you should spend more time pointing out the ways the different UIs could be improved or even by mocking up some designs that DO have taste. It might help make your point better than just showing us ugly Enterprise screenshots.

Typo: "It is easy to burry[bury] utility under the beautiful picture."
I may be the least qualified person on here, my here's my guess. Imagine you're a normal developer, minding your own business .. even so you have dozens of problems that plague your world of programming ... overtime, no actual formalization of requirements, n-number of tradeoffs and the worst part your main product is a damn customized cms system, now all of a sudden this cms explodes and is in demand . Now all your problems are made 100 fold and your pretty little world has disappeared .... that is pretty much what I expect the average answer to be on here
What do you think of viper?
Best way to evaluate which problem to solve?
Have been thinking about various solutions to problems I've noticed across various sectors. Any tips on how to decide which of those many solutions to build? a framework perhaps?
Many can, some can't. Counterexamples doesn't prove that a problem is not a problem. Even when, in your case, you add two more stories.
> Most people have a bike, but would never bother taking it somewhere fancy like this to get it fixed or serviced.

They be pricy...

A while back some girl hit me so we threw my mangled bike in her trunk and went up the street to a bike shop. Would've cost more to fix it (just in parts, who knows about labor) than I paid for the thing so we just went to their sister shop that sold used bikes and she replaced it out of something in inventory.

I could fix it myself for probably 1/3 of what the shop was asking but most likely won't bother unless my current bike gets stolen or hit by a car.
I don't have time to dig deeply into sources for all these things because I'm not a lobbyist by profession, but I think your assessment is way off. Somewhat satisfied also means somewhat dissatisfied, so by your reasoning 50+% are "dissatisfied" with their internet speeds. There also have been tons of studies on the level of monopoly service, but you seem to not count those because you think 1Mbps is acceptable in 2017.

You seem to be saying that we should be thrilled with this wonderful world where lots of people are "somewhat" satisfied and pay much higher prices than other countries and get 1Mbps level service. That's the status quo you want to hang on to? Is that where you want America to still be in 20 years?

If we never serve people a better internet, there will be tons of opportunities they'll never get. As just one example, right now there is a huge crunch of millenials moving to big cities where the jobs are at, but that's also where housing prices are highest. If only we had the Internet service to allow large numbers of good paying jobs from home in rural areas, it would be huge for our country's economy. But I worry that the attitude you present, that most people don't need good internet anyway, will never get us there.
> lead with the interesting stuff before the theory. It'll make learning easier and more fun.

As a mathematician I say:

What is considered as interesting is different for each person. I, personally, for example deeply love this really abstract stuff (but of course I am aware that other people have different preferences). So I would say even finding "interesting stuff" that many students in the lecture hall might be interested in is really, really hard.

Another important argument against your idea is: To be even able to formulate the ideas from AI, one first have to learn and understand the words of the language in which one will formulate this. And these words are like "vector space", "linear map", "tensor product" etc. and understanding their meaning means knowing theorems about them. Starting with advanced topics, such as your AI example, is like giving beginner language learners a really advanced text in the foreign language that they just begin to learn. In other words: A reallz dubious idea.

Considerung your post I can only ask you why you did not have a talk with the course advisor of your faculty. He would immediately have told you why these lectures are important for the things that you are actually interested in.
This sounds like some kind of comment about divisibility of the work to publish something. I don't get it though.

After the bulk of the paper is written, I can easily proofread, typeset, etc everything myself in less than a week. Now get someone else to double check that. Lets say that is another week.

After that the only thing is to get someone worthwhile to spend some time on your paper and point out anything confusing or erroneous. Granted, this could take a month or so of study. However, I never really saw that happen in practice. In reality you would be lucky to get people to glance over it one evening.

So what is taking so long?
I was talking about advertisers running code in your browser. I think you have to opt-in to participate in one of the studies, so that's not happening without your consent.

It looks like Firefox auto-installs the studies though if you've enabled the feature. But it only activates the individual extensions for the studies once you've opted in to participate.

The extensions themselves need to be approved by a bunch of people at mozilla (at least for the normal studies). So I guess nothing bad can happen until you click "participate" or whatever they call it.

Still, I would also consider the notification itself to be an ad. This was obviously a bad idea and I don't want anyone to think I'm defending it. I guess they've chosen to abuse their shield studies for this because it's the only way for them to send notifications to the browser, but that's no excuse. I have the studies disabled anyway but now I'm not even going to consider ever turning them on.
No counterparty risk - and what instrument exactly has this amazing property?
Maybe your perception is that you're ultimately helping your fellow muslim brothers and sisters and sacrificing yourself for the greater good. Of course it doesn't make any sense to me but given enough propaganda and indoctrination, anything can happen.
LoRa is infinitely more reliable.
> So many people forget that the original paper clearly states that Bitcoin is an experiment.

Where exactly in the white paper does it state this? I've just looked it up, and don't see any reference to Bitcoin being an experiment.
Your comment reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1891/
Is that an attempt at a personal attack? Looks like it. Looks like you're being defensive as well, curious if you bought any crypto-assets?

I remember from last time someone tried to dump a bunch onto the market the price crashed - by definition then - is that more liquid or more illiquid? Liquidity is obviously on a spectrum and these crypto-assets very quickly become illiquid depending on how many people are wanting to sell; searching for the example it seems the specific event I was thinking about was regarding Ethereum's Ether - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/22/ethereum-price-crash-10-cent...

Here's another brief article that showed in the search listings re: market manipulation - https://steemkr.com/bitcoin/@crypto-pro/how-to-make-altcoins...

The point being that it's perhaps only liquid until too many people at once want to remove their money. People of course didn't and don't try to dump it (currently) because they're not going to want to sell for 1/300th (example) of what it was the day before, so everyone just waits until it rebounds. This is why these global decentralized Ponzi Schemes are dangerous for society because they can survive because there's such a supply of potential people using relatively small amounts of money, these growing number of people putting relatively small amounts of money increases the number of people incentivized to wanting it to grow in value - so they all speak positively and market it to their friends to buy, etc. All of the current holders need new money/people to come in for them to realize "profit" (unreasonable wealth transfer) by acknowledging/validating/legitimizing the 'current' value of the crypto-asset of their choice.
That's just the number of occurrences, not the number of votes. One postal voting instance could be hundreds of votes. EG: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487144/Judge-lambast...
If I'm playing with someone that is making AK47's into utensils, I would think twice about raising my concerns regarding the loaded dice.

Hmm the dice are behaving funny, but that's fine, everything is just fine...

https://izbicki.me/blog/turning-an-ak-47-into-a-serving-ladl...
That’s only one metric to compare. That doesn’t take into account the carbon sequestration from manure, topsoil formation, etc. from grass fed animals.

It also doesn’t take into account the massive energy use (and therefore, carbon release) of fertilizing, seeding, irrigating, harvesting and processing feed for conventional cattle.

So in total, I would expect grass fed meat to be much better than conventional meat, and possibly better than if we were to just eat crops directly.
I imagine that, if it doesn't already do that, it'd be easy to make all nodes share a read-only file system for system and programs and have node-specific /etc, /var, and /home
I'm agreeing that the fashion changed (TB -> flapper). I disagree with the author's explanation for that change.
Sure. It sounds like the police have enough evidence to move forward with a trial, and then the court will decide innocence or guilt. That's how it's supposed to work. There's nothing in any of this, as far as I can see, to support your suggestions of police misconduct, or the other fellow's suggestions of thoughtcrime.
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