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Hopefully posts like these encourage us to reach out to our friends in actual real life way, not just through social media likes or mentions
1. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - I've been on a giant math books kick. I really enjoyed Simon Singh's other book, The Code Book, so this one is awesome.

2. The Code Book - If you're really into the history of cryptography, this book is for you.

3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Not a really a revelatory book by any sorts. But a fun read.

4. The Handmaid's Tale - Revisiting this since the TV series came out and I really felt like getting traumatized all over again.
Until there's a real breakthrough in battery technology, where you'll always likely see ICE being used will be the off-road community.

There is just no battery technology that will allow you run for more than 50-60 miles on a charge, especially when you have a lifted vehicle on 35+" off-road tires, in dirt, rocks, mountainous terrain (with water, snow, ice, mud, you name it).

There won't be charging stations out there, either. Heck, if you aren't trailering your rig to the trail, it's usually much more than 50 miles just to get to the start of the fun.

The thing is, though, if the battery tech were there, I'm sure that a chunk of the off-road community would be on top of it, given the advantages of electric drivetrains and such. But the batteries have to get a lot better than they are currently in today's electric cars; when we see cars able to go 500+ miles on a charge, and to be able to be recharged in under 10 minutes - that's about when off-roaders will jump on it en-masse.

Plus - there has to be ways to recharge out "in the bush" - and solar panels won't cover it (except in a dire emergency I suppose - recharging for days); off-roaders typically carry several gallons of extra fuel with them (jerry cans or otherwise) - for emergency use for whatever reason.

I'm not suggesting that electric cars won't be a thing for the masses because of off-road needs; just that off-road needs won't allow for electrics any time soon, unless there is a breakthrough in battery tech. Until then, it will be ICE - or at best, hybrid technology.
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Agreed. I started with WebOS (Pre was my first smartphone), then HP happened. So I jumped to Blackberry 10, then their new CEO moved them to Android. So now now I am a reluctant Android user, because I find it only slightly less invasive than iOS. Very disappointed that this is the state of mobile computing landscape going into 2018.
What percentage of the lithium in the battery can be recycled?
Richard Bookstaber's arguments in 'Demon of Our Own Design' for how to reduce the frequency and severity of systemic financial crashes can be oversimplified to loosening the coupling between systems, and reducing the complexity of systems. The natural incentives of financial firms are toward coupling that they can profit from and complexity that they can charge for. Alan Greenspan eventually figured out that letting the firms police themselves probably isn't actually a good idea [0]. I may have targeted the wrong top two deregulatory initiatives, but I'm pretty confident that removing and failing to enforce existing regulations was a significant contributor to the crisis. It's not that we don't know how to avoid crashes, it's that it is less profitable (for some) to do so.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/oct/24/economics-c...
> Is it really that much to ask that when someone holds your data, that you can ask them to delete it and be assured that it’s gone for good?

That doesn't give you the right to send someone your private data, in a channel they didn't ask for it, and demand that they secure that channel.

This is the tough part about being a training company online: students send in questions with their personal data, unsolicited, via channels I simply can't secure. Your PII doesn't belong in email.

> But I’m looking forward to a world where unrestrained data collection and handling is no longer tolerated.

Read the post. It's not about what we collect - it's about what people send us voluntarily. That's the part that I'm most worried about.

If I have no business relationship with those people, and they're just sending us personally identifiable data for no reason, I'm a lot more comfortable defending that in court. But if we have a business relationship where they're paying for our advice, and then they start sending more and more data, that's where I'm on shaky ground.
I do not think that.

But I think is that more people would not have been OK with that level of violence and destruction if they had a chance to actually see it, rather than presented through words on a newspaper.
I assume because there is a feeling that the footage is not faked (as footage of UFO's tend to be), and because the military's incentives to fake a UFO video are usually very much in the opposite direction (i.e. nothing to see here, carry on).
I don't think this is the case, but I can see how it's an appealing interpretation. I do experience a brief moment of annoyance, but it feels more like an annoyance that we lost an opportunity to reminisce and re-connect over a mutual friend. The call and response of "did you see this?" and "Yes." stops the conversation more than if they respond with "no", and we can relate over a story.
"Possible UFO" is a silly phrase if you think about it.
Oh boy are you in for some bad news.
I agree with what you and the parent are saying here, and I suppose I didn’t well enough communicate my meaning. To clarify, I am focusing on the naive representations, which I find people rely on too much. It is easy to learn lower dimensions naively and feel like they make sense, but you won’t bridge that understanding to higher dimensions as seamlessly as going from a point to a line to a circle to a sphere, etc.

And for the pictorial representations which do exist, implicit in understanding them is the symbolic information. Conversely, you can understand common naive representations without an implicit understanding of the formalism. For example, we all know what a circle is before we know about irrational numbers, but it’s silly to try and understand a 5-cell or a tesseract without a broader understanding of k-dimensional space. It’s precisely that naive intuition that doesn’t generalize well.

In other words, my point more simply was caution: use pictures, but don’t replace symbolic formalism with them, just use them augment your understanding once you’ve at least sort of got it.
There's something to be said for firm moderation in public forums, but there's a point at which it starts to look like evasion and shutting down discourse rather than making forward progress and winning hearts and minds.

I hold Mozilla to a very high standard of openness, transparency, user rights, and technical competence; something they've invited (and indeed earned) in the past, and they need (and, I hope, still want) to be called to account when they fall short of that standard.
I suspect it's easier to go the route they did than try to integrate Plex playback into the clients you mentioned. Though of course it's not the only choice...
So where does the rubber hit the road? Oh, you saw a UFO flying around, great. Might as well be 1 million lightyears away if they aren't going to give us advanced technology. The first wheel the people of the interior of Papua New Guinea ever saw was on the bottom of a Japanese airplane flying overhead, so there's that. Seriously, we might as well be a primitive tribe in the Amazon seeing an airplane flying overhead in the 1950s. Ho hum, time to get back to work scavenging for food.
It's actually one topic I've grown to agree with my extremely conservative father on, that they should have never fixed the seats at 435. This was done long after the founding of the country (relative to the age of the country, that is), but if we had kept the original apportionment we'd have one of the largest legislatures in the world. It wouldn't solve the apportionment problem, but it would make the unfairness of any given solution much less consequential and also it would make gerrymandering harder (though still not impossible).
Does anyone have a link to a "long read" taking this apart based on the evidence? The NYT article doesn't really provide a good skeptic's analysis.
They possibly knew what it was?
I feel like you're getting quite the education in how the world works today.
Keep in mind one branch of the military was successfully flying this in 1977:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ha...

(a picture of Have Blue - the precursor to the stealth fighter. It defiantly looks like something out of this world to the eyes of someone in 1977)
Isn't the term "superfood" basically a marketing-only term?
60 meters? That's really not very much, you better have a short commute. /s
Excuse me, I am generally a naive person. But what is your take on this video? Do you think this is legitimate? Do you think this “proves ” there are UFOs?

Or this could be just a strategy for another goal?

For example, somebody mentioned they are trying hard to redirect attention from something else?

Update: I put the word prove in quotations.
It's not a possible UFO, just a UFO. U stands for unidentified not extra-terrestrial.
It was bad of Steve Jobs and Adobe to kill Flash (and Flex)

Flex allowed building cross platform apps with classic rich GUI. Now we need to do expensive rewritings in HTML / JS where UI programming is still not fully re-invented.
Some states have statutes against using dangerous defenses against property crimes. For example, those laws make it illegal to shoot someone to death for stealing a purse or to write a bomb to explode if your bike is stolen.

On another note, I'm pretty sure stealing a package isn't a felony. It's not as serious as stealing US mail out of a mailbox.
Is that healthy? Before I reduced social usage, I found myself spending time I 'enjoyed'. Now, I look back, and that time was unhealthy. (I believe seeing only other people's highlights helped trigger a depressive episode.)

It's like time spent watching TV. I enjoy it; sometimes it provides value; it's tendency is to take over and create an unhealthy life for me.
At first I thought it was a spec of dirt stuck on the window, because it kept its position constant relative to the moving airplane. But then when it twisted, I had to give up that explanation.
Well, I mean, it's a flying object, and they clearly can't identify it, so it's not a "possible" UFO, it's the literal definition of a UFO.
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For a contract to be binding, you need consideration[1] from both parties. A contract where you give me something for nothing is not binding, we both need to be giving each other _something_. That something need not be money: A contract saying that you agree to give me your house if I give you my car would qualify. Google and Facebook extract enough value from targeting ads based on the personal information we agree to give them access to that access to said information is enough to qualify as consideration. I'd argue that, even if WhatsApp doesn't have a monetisation strategy that leverages said information, it's credible enough that it would qualify as consideration.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration
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> Anyone can run their C trough minifiers

I don't know of any programs that are distributed as C to be run directly like javascript.

> Machine code donesn't move needle of obfuscation much at all

There are two very fundamental mistakes you are making when equating webasm to raw processor instructions. The first is that webasm even its binary format is still organized in a abstract syntax tree, so its instruction are not flat, they are in a hierarchy.

The second is that webasm doesn't take care of the input and output. Right now it doesn't even interface with the document object model, so all the IO is still done through javascript.
Why disclose this now? The incident took place 13 years ago.
>the javascript security model

:Ddd

So you’re saying they have mitigated every cross-origin-based exploit? I bet they really mean it this time.
It's called consideration. It's one of the main tests for a contract.
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There is so much work and planning that goes on between the utilities and regulatory agencies to ensure we almost always have reliable electrical supply. Traditional plants have planned outages for regular maintenance, and they are constantly working to ensure there are enough backup systems and alternate routes to ensure there are not outages even during maintenance windows. The amount of cars and the amount of extra grid you would have to build to completely replace these traditional plants would be prohibitively expensive. It's not just a matter of plugging a few million cars into homes.

https://energy.gov/oe/services/technology-development/transm...
Thanks for the kind words. I haven't seen droptask... I'll add it to the list. Although I have a prejudice for old and ugly tools like GV, Make et al.
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Do you really think that they don't understand what problem they are solving?

Compare the number of patches vs windows 7 or the number of cases that require a reboot since XP...they are working towards a better system. That being said, I really, I'm not trolling here, think that you can't make users happy in this age. People have been trained by interactions with crap companies, Microsoft included, to go from 0 to apoplectic immediately just to get a resolution. There's no benefit to being a happy user, you won't get your issues looked at...and there are always issues!
Yeah right, ScumBagAmerica can sue you? You're not a lawyer but you certainly show good enough background to support a frivolous case. It really baffles me to think anyone trying to protect their property would be sued by someone trying to steal their property. (facepalm)
Meetup is a nice idea, but my personal experience was that every event was a bunch of men trying to get laid and a very small number of women who were going to their first Meetup and would never come back.

Maybe that's just my city, but it seems logical, given my knowledge of unpoliced human behavior.
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hey LordBron, Vu from katella.ai here. We are integrating with Slack only at this stage, but we will be expanding to other Enterprise chat platforms (MS teams, Hangout Chats, Alexa for Business, ..). Strictly focusing on the workplace though.
No, Dylan was supposed to be a systems language in the spirit of Lisp Machines.

But internal politics and battling between teams spoiled it.

Check the comments from mikelevins and wrs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106802
Right, but all that could happen now. Webasm doesn't change anything in that regard.
Nobody is saying to hire people who are less excellent than you normally would. What people are saying is make an effort to find candidates that are underrepresented.
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Bugs in our system could mess up people's lives big time. If you take pride in writing code that "just works", if you love turning an idea into a deployed feature in minutes, you'll love it here. Practical experience with Python/Django, SQL and automated testing strongly preferred. Practical experience with Ruby/Rails or Java will be considered too.

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They both saw it and didn't see it. OMG, it was a quantum UFO! Those aliens must be advanced as hell.
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer

If you like reading adventurous books, i'd recommend it. This one is about the Mt. Everest expedition of a group of people and the disaster that fell upon them.

You're Surely Joking Mr. Feynman - Richard Feynman

This one is collection of events in the life of Feynman. He's mostly known for being a scientist, but he's equally talented in few other areas as well. An interesting and fun book.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell

Recommended if you are into psychology and knowing how our thoughts and actions are affected by our subconscious.
They've been doing that over the last couple of OS versions. XP to 7 to 10. Granted it's still not great, but it's improved vastly. It has a long way to go. I just think that it's really hard to please end users these days for a variety of reasons that don't all relate to software quality.
If you're in said private circles, you might recognize the author.
> Are any of those available on ebay?

Sometimes a TTY appears. IBM Selectrics are easy to find. CDC and Tektronix stuff is much harder/borderline impossible. Building a vector CRT like the CDC and the 2250 is a major engineering undertaking these days and I don't even want to start what would it take to build a storage tube like Tek had.

I think a x,y display can be built off a CRT that miraculously escaped recycling and, by modulating RGB cannons, you may even get color vectors for free.

I'd love to do such a project, but the analog parts are way above my head. Haven't touched that since college.
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good question. It's its own NLP system that is currently integrated into Slack but we are working on Microsoft Teams and other integrations
This guy had 20 packages stolen, after he made the exploding box?

Sounds unlikely to me... The chances that there are 20 distinct thieves in the area, who all try to steal this one box?

If that were the case, pretty much every legit amazon package in the area must be being stolen too...
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Camera could be gimbal mounted, behind a fixed glass dome - if the speck is on the dome and the camera gimbal moves, it would appear like "the UFO" rotating.
Maybe its identification is classified. E.g. the speaker is implying "i cannot confirm or deny whether this is identified"
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I've always taken "OP" to mean "Original Poster" or "Original Parent" -- similar "GP" is often used to mean "Grandparent Poster", as in the post whose reply we are replying to. :)
Adobe has around 4 guys working on the whole Flash codebase.
Suppose Tom delonge is on to something then haha
Loss of trust is a very real consequence.
I think this needs more clarification. As far as I can tell, this post only states that these printers merely used the BSAFE library, which used a likely-backdoored PRNG.

It's not news that something used a library, unless that thing is a lot higher profile than a random printer model.
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> PHEVs are no less EVs than pure EVs from the technology perspective.
> What? This doesn't make any sense.

It makes more sense if you drive one. The EV range lets you drive as a full EV for 99% of your drives, and a very efficient hybrid for long ones (since the battery can reserve enough energy to let the engine only work at it's most efficient range). I went almost 3,000 miles before needing to put gas in mine, and only needed that because of a 200 mile trip I took.

Once you exceed something like 25 miles of EV-only range, a PHEV is closer to an EV than a Hybrid.
>did you look at the already existing playing MTG AIs: https://www.slightlymagic.net/wiki/List_of_MTG_Engines

Yes. I'm very likely going to use the guts of XMage to handle card text and encoding the game state and all legal actions. I'm deliberately trying to get a simpler version with only three cards working first so I can see if it's possible to "solve" (i.e. test every single possible action and response for every possible game and determine the optimal play each time) such a game.

A major issue is that determining what is in the opponents hand based on previous plays is pretty important in situations where such information cannot be brute forced and instead needs to rely on dependent probabilities.

>I believe exhaustively trying out all decks is not going to fly and deckbuilding should be centered around synergies + looking at what currently works (top decks).

I had decent success building a GA that could tweak the list for a simple burn deck by adding or removing single cards as a mutation. I only tested against a very simple opponent and all potential plays were hand-coded.

>I would personally settle on an AI bot that plays perfectly that I could feed decks to test.

The issue is that "plays perfectly" is an extremely tough bar (even against only one opposing deck). As a trivial example: Magic is full of "infinite" combos where a given loop can be completed an arbitrary amount of times. Knowing the "correct" point to stop the looping is extremely tough to code perfectly.

It's also possible to have, say, a trillion tokens on the board and it's legal to pick any one of them as a target - handling this kind of situation is also pretty hard to handle computationally.
Retrofitting something into a definition does not help anyone. We have more precision available than calling it "spyware" can deliver, so argue around that. If you think their anonymisation techniques are faulty or you have reason to believe that Cliqz will violate the law by collecting personal data, then bring that forth.
This feels like it's straight out of The Corrections.

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

(If you haven't read this, stop everything you're doing and go find a copy)
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> I guess you missed all those sites using Flash, Silverlight, Applets, WebStart, ClickOnce and many other plugins.

I did actually, because most aren't around any more. Even so, I was talking about sites that purely use the html canvas to draw. There is nothing preventing websites from being built like that right now, so I don't see how webasm will make much of a difference.
I didn't downvote you, but I imagine the counterpoint goes something like "The advantage of Signal over your solution is that more than 3% of the population can set it up".
Telegram is brilliant: small, fast, efficient client for virtually anything, including bitlbee.
On the other side, it's probably hacked by most of the agencies, but to be honest: meh. Someone will spy on me anyway; at least I have an efficient, open source client, which isn't trying to spy on me every possible way.
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I thought so too, but I think in that case it would simply change position in the image and it wouldn't be in the center.
I think the primary technical objection goes away if you replace the above ground tube with a tunnel. A tunnel will be more expensive, of course. On the other hand, Hyperloop only requires small diameter tunnels which are much cheaper to bore.
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How can you prevent EU users from using your service (it seems that's where you are headed)? I can think of IP geofiltering if you have a web service, perhaps blacklisting some countries in the AppStores if you publish an app... but people can travel & VPN somehow.
Will part of the registration be "Are you a EU citizen?"
And if EU people work around your safeguards and manage to register, are you still liable?