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I understand where you're coming from, but ultimately it is your decision to stay on Facebook. If you ever want to try something different then try Scuttlebutt. All of your data there is stored in your own blockchain, and then you exchange these blockchains with others. There is no central server or identification authority.

The UI is very much in an alpha state but the SSB protocol is solid, so the blockchain itself will outlive any particular UI version. It might actually be able to scale without having a central authority run it, which gives a glimpse of a future without Facebook.
I'm not so happy with their adult shoes. Some are good, like Gobi. Others are pretty bad, and they change their designs pretty radically so they never improve their weak points.

For example, I spent a few hundred on the first Porto iteration, and it fell apart in less than 2 months. Their German shop refused to honor the guarantee.
If inequality goes down because the rich become less rich, is that a win?
Swatting is a form of domestic terrorism. The caller wasn't someone trying to waste time, that was someone who wanted to potentially turn someone else's life upside down.
The number from Norway is from a single mass shooting in 2011 where a man shot children trapped on an island. There have never been anything like that before or later. He killed more people than the total number of murder victims in an average year.
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In 2018, anyone here that is working on an internet facing application should push for TOTP or U2F, please. Texting, security questions, et all, are nothing but security theater.
So,

- Apple makes phones that have batteries normal owners can't replace.

- When the battery degrades the phone's performance degrades.

- Users either pay for a new phone or were paying $80 for new batteries.

- Apple admits the ruse, lowers the replacement cost to $30, basically admitting that $50 was profit.

- Turns out another company already did replacements for $30 and was probably making money on it. So Apple's still likely making money on it.

- Users get upset but line up around the block to buy whatever Apple puts out anyways --
sight unseen.

We get the behavior we incentivize. In this case we get planned obsolescence and shakedowns for repair. Until consumers vote with their wallets, all this kvetching doesn't mean shit.
That’s just it though — when I type in an exact name, it may not even show up in the first couple screen-scrolls of results. I can easily see many potential customers just giving up after a page or so and assuming that the app isn’t in the store, especially since Apple is known to pull apps for various reasons.

This means that even if something outside the store mentions your app, you’d better hope they included a direct link to the store and not just the name.
No, the BFS was never used as there were only single-unit failures of the main computer (which used a quorum system with 4 machines running identical code).

edit: NASA writeup on the reliability of the computers: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/flyout/flyfeature...
I love the fact that Undo/Redo is particularly marked as a difficult problem.

I ALWAYS find making Undo/Redo robust to be one of the biggest challenges in any software application.
I wasn't talking about moderation on HN at all. I was talking about moderation on Facebook.
With unaccountable murder machines freely roaming the streets with the power to kill you at the slightest provocation (real or perceived), you don't have to have be in a particular profession to fear for your life.
Because it's a gaming community, so they're not really trying to shield their identities, which led to this article, in which I read the news first (note: different than the source of this thread): http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html

And there's also this in the WaPo, claiming the same social media content: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/12/3...

Idiot that should face consequences, definitely. Had the intention of killing someone, highly doubt it.
I have had a 6 Plus for 3 years, my girlfriend has a 6 as well but none of us have the issues you describe. Yes it got quite slow with iOS 11, but it's just a bit laggy at times, no long pauses that require a reboot.
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Yardley's book (annotated by his arch rival Friedman no less!) referenced in the NSA document is here:

https://archive.org/details/AmericanBlackChamber

"The cryptography historian David Kahn called the book "the most famous book on cryptology ever published."
Show HN: FizzBuzz using neural networks in Rust
Blog post: https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...

Whitepaper: https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/viewer?url=www.google.c...
FWIW, I thought you were referring to UofPhoenix until I read the URL. Haven't heard of UoPeople but thanks for sharing. Do you know anyone whose had success with their programs?
The element of surprise in coming to the house of the person who had supposedly called them in the first place? A possible hostage situation in what was described to them on the phone as an already-existing hostage situation?

Also, who are these multiple individuals and 'compatriots'? I thought this was about a guy who claimed to have shot a family member and was holding others hostage while threatening to burn the house down. When did this one guy turn into a foreign invasion force?
This is describing the new fasttext vectors available at fasttext.cc.

As they write in the abstract, they don't introduce any new techniques, but I think the paper reads really well as a concise tour for people interested in the current state of the art.
Hahaha, that was hillarious! I wish there was a bit of voice recognition too, because then this bot would be unbeatable! There should also be a few more variations, but then it seems more than enough to get the seller/scammer enganged for quite some time.
DOS 6. In dos 5 you could only selectively load stuff in the autoexec.bat, not in the config.sys
Reminds me of FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition®

1. https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
> cgroups and namespaces are one of the few reliable ways to kill process groups in non-racey ways

That is a common myth that is circulated, and it is a falsehood. Ironically, control groups are subject to the very race conditions that you mention.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/linux-control-groups-are-not-jobs.html
The Finnish language Wikipedia entry does include the mention of his fraud conviction and a link to a newspaper article from 2004:

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olavi_J._Mattila
blocklist aggregator: https://github.com/jakeogh/dnsgate
>> It works this way for the military. I can’t fathom why it doesn’t work this way with police.

>The military is part of the state's monopoly on violence(...)

But the police are a part of the state's monopoly on violence as well - they're the ones who commit the violence on behalf of the state, and the ones whose violence the state legitimizes.
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If you want to solve the issue of over-militarization of civilian police and SWAT, replace their guns with something safer but still effective at quickly subduing threats.

Carfentanil gas smart bullets with auto & manual per-shot dose control (handled by the launcher/gun device) could be equally effective and slightly less dangerous.

I imagine that the decrease in medical costs would vastly outweigh the increase in weaponry costs.
I call bullshit on this.

These cops have to be willing to consider their lives less important that everyone else's. Bullshit.

Yes plenty of people go into the military. For myself it was because I could not get a better job. Was I willing to die for my country, yes, but I sure as hell wasn't of the opinion I wouldn't be doing everything in my power to make sure I wasn't.

I was just reading the other thread on here about the original story. The police got a proper doing on it.

I bet myself before clicking the link for this one "I bet no one is speaking about the linked story just slagging the polic." Correct.

Why is no one commenting on what this idiot did?
> “Israeli security agencies monitor Facebook and send the company posts they consider incitement. Facebook has responded by removing most of them.”

Maybe because they are incitement? This kind of thing isn’t incitement? https://goo.gl/images/oknvLC many other examples catalogued here: http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Social-media-playin... the incitement to violence is real. Love how Greenwald glosses over this as insignificant. In his world view, Israelis should just accept social media posts that incite murdering them, because Israelis are big
bad guys.
You're right that firearms (weapons) can be used for many things. In the context of police work (or self defense), they are used for deadly force. The reason militaries use ball ammunition is (among other reasons such as those you mention) due to international conventions. For what it's worth, there are fully-jacketed rounds made to abide by these conventions yet still have many of the characteristics of hallow-point rounds. And you're right about incapacitation on the field of battle. You've pointed out a distinct difference between police work and self defense, and (some) military tactics.

Considerations like additional burden and demoralization are battle-field considerations: they're different from what police are typically involved in, where you want to remove an imminent or active threat to the public. (Just to reiterate, there are a lot of decisions that people can disagree about leading up to the decision to use deadly force in police work and whether that use was justified in any particular situation. That's not the discussion at hand here.)

Your examples of intimidation and deterrence are both indications that deadly force is available and willing to be applied. From the standpoint of brandishing, it doesn't matter what types of rounds are used. I'm not clear as to how often police actually fire warning shots, but if this is this case, they would be also be interested in ensuring the shot does not shoot through the intended target. (Shooting into the air is incredibly reckless and I can't imagine that's something police would be trained to do.)
We use pretty much the exact same concepts in SimAirport [1] and it generally works quite well. As with many of these types of 'scale' problems, invalidation becomes a bit tricky but on the whole it has allowed us to scale the game much better than anything else that we looked at.

Still a lot of work left to scale the remainder of the game (performance-wise), though.

Edit to add: It's also tricky when there are bitmask scopes of availability (is agent secure? is agent first class passenger? is agent a staff member with a badge? etc) and traversal-abilities; and then when you want to add in better heuristics to achieve neat stuff like moving walkways, etc. =)

1 - Disclaimer: Am one of the two devs of SimAirport. http://store.steampowered.com/app/598330
Doesn't seem to support Amazon European marketplaces.

Review Meta does, and works very well.
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Join a programming community and ask for feedback on your exercises/projects. Tons of communities out there. Not saying this is a non issue but the fix is pretty simple.
That "in a year or two" seems to be happening since 2007 for the Vinyl industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_revival
When I compare opportunities for mobility that we have as developers, I'm grateful for the industry. I can't imagine being "stuck" at a job I don't like. In the last 20 years it's only taken a month to find a new job once I started looking. One time, I quit a job on Monday without any job in the pipeline, I hadn't interviewed with anyone when I quit and by that Thursday, I received an offer from what was then one of the 10 most valuable companies in the U.S. (not a tech firm) making 10K more.

I'm not claiming to be a special snowflake. I'm just a regular old "Enterprise Developer".

But the thought of working 30 years at one company and receiving a pension, horrifies me.

Just like we are just "resources" to an employer, they are just resources for us to make money. No loyalty either way, no expectations.

They give me a paycheck every two weeks and I work hard and do my best work for those two weeks. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is the best thing I've seen in a while.

That they host the code in gitlab is a nice touch.
How old is your daughter, and how is the weather where you live?

My son is about 17 months old and has been walking for about 5 months. We live in one of the warmer parts of San Francisco, so for the first 3–4 months it was warm enough that he could just walk barefoot around the neighborhood. We sometimes get strange looks/questions from other pedestrians, and his feet get very dirty, but it’s easy to wipe them before going inside. When it gets too cold (i.e. he would sit down and refuse to walk on the sidewalk) we put some of these soft leather moccasins on him. https://amzn.com/B014EQ6OXM/

For cold rainy weather or older kids I’m not sure what the best choice would be. I’m somewhat of a mind to just buy some leather and make shoes at home; it doesn’t seem impossibly difficult (there are many straightforward patterns from e.g. North American tribes).
>if the police show up anywhere, be it an Occupy protest or a carjacking, there is likely to be mayhem and bloodshed.

If you grew up in the US (I can't speak for other countries), I think most people, despite the media coverage, would say otherwise. There's way too many cops for this to even make sense. If even 1% of police interaction ended in a death, there would be literally millions of people dead by cop every year.

>chickenshit mentality where no risk to an officer's safety is tolerated ever.

Again, I'm not sure this is true. Are cops selfless superhuman crime fighting machines, charging heedlessly into danger? Of course not, and it's unreasonable to expect them to be. I would go so far as to argue we don't want heros. Heros are a band-aid fix, a substitute for good training and careful decisions made possible by always selfless, often reckless, decisions. We shouldn't be putting officers in a situation where they need to step up to become a hero.

Of course, there is the unpredictable event that necessitates a hero, but we should be working to reduces these edge cases.
IMHO the one and only thing a government is to do to protect the people from Ponzi and other schemes is to make sure everybody leaves school with conscious knowledge of the following:

1. Every investment is a risk, you may win or you may loose.
2. The chance of loss is usually proportional to the potential profitability estimated.
3. Never invest what you can't afford to loose easily.
4. Don't be mad on the friend who has introduced you to the business if he didn't explicitly guarantee you will win - that was your choice.
5. Whoever says there is no risk and the success is guaranteed - lies, don't believe them and don't rely on them.

Actually, if a person doesn't know this by the time they finish the school the time they've spent there has probably been wasted. As for me I've learnt about Ponzi scheme from a Khan Academy lecture (and yes, my time at school was a waste mostly, that's a pity there was no Khan Academy back in those years).
There are few known ecosystems, without a small bunch of apex predators.

If nature hasn't figured out how to do it any different, given the time she has had, neither are we.

If you are not powerful, make yourself useful to the powerful. And that doesn't mean working for a douchebag.
I think I posted it here the last time some poor guy got gunned down by a swat team by mistake, but Radley Balko wrote a really good book about the history of how this kind of thing became commonplace in the states; Rise of the Warrior Cop. Fascinating read.
That's what I thought. Some sort of sterling engine. Yet sterling engines need a heat source and sink. Perhaps the fireplace is a proper heatsink?
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So what’s the limit to taxes? Half the people in the country don’t pay any federal income tax.
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Losing Conner’s Mind
> With the sole exception of the U.K., our government has been around longer than every other representative democracy.

I was talking about countries, not governments, these two are not the same, even tho the parent comment would like to pretend they are.

In that regard, it's still very dishonest to compare Europe, with its often centuries-old animosities between countries in a very small space, to the short history of the USA being a thing, in which it had mostly only had to deal with Mexico and Cannada in terms of "neighbor conflicts".

> They were mostly killed by European colonists operating under European rules

That's even more dishonest, it's not like all that changed and native Americans were recognized as such, as soon as the US got founded, and everything was perfect after that.

The US has the luxury of being rather isolated, thus the vast majority of conflicts can easily be externalized, usually to a completely different continent, with barely any real consequences for the US population. It's for that very same reason that the US been involved in some kind of "war" [0] pretty much constantly in its 200+ years of existence.

It's for exactly that reason that so many US Americans have been a-okay with these armed conflicts, as the vast majority of them never hit close to home. No US American alive today does know what it's like to have militarized conflict in, or at, their countries borders. Which probably also explains, in part, the massive overreaction to 9/11.

Now you can argue not all of them are "real wars" but rather "interventions" or "anti-terror missions" or whatnot, but let's be real here: That's simply schematics to keep on selling this state of affairs to a US population which is starting to be pretty fed up with sending their kids overseas to die for often very questionable reasons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
NCIS is a federal investigative and intelligence service--much like MI5, which leads us to Spooks that also has quite a bit of guns and rule breaking.
> is there any significant push
It'll be business as per usual: "shit happens", "thoughts & prayers" etc. Just another one of the "periodic plagues from the gods" [paraphrased] that you can't do anything about.
I have no idea why this was downvoted. It was funny and perfectly timed.
It actually doesn't according to http://sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com/code/8804b49c23d620228..., though different PHP versions could produce different results.
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My current reading list:

- Fundamental Proof Methods in Computer Science

- Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning

- Software Abstractions

- The Little Prover

Yes, currently I have Athena, OCaml, Alloy, ACL2 (via Dr Racket/Dracula) all up and running to work through the exercises in these books. I'm very skeptical anything will come of this, but it interests me and I can see the value.

Hopefully the speaker's next book Formal Reasoning About Programs (https://github.com/achlipala/frap) will be a nice next step, I have Certified Programming with Dependent Types but have not cracked it yet. Also keeping an eye on Verified Functional Algorithms (https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/vfa-current/index....).
What paper was the best in 2014?
No, discounted purchases don't get you the "Verified" badge. The way sellers operate today is, they ask you to buy the product "for real" and then reimburse you (and more) via Paypal. This is against Amazon's rules but lots of sellers are doing it.

I rank around 6000th reviewer in FR and yet I constantly receive messages offering me to review products using this method.
What do they steal from the powerless?
> I think another important consideration might be that peak plasma concentrations on Vyvanse would be lower than on Adderall (because it's more spread out over time).

Vyvanse is intended to be equivalent to Adderall XR, not IR, so the effects are intended to be spread out in both. If you're comparing to IR, you're no longer really comparing apples to apples anyway.
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I would say by now you have a pretty good idea of what people around here think but... yeah, if the rich get a little less rich things are a lot better for everyone. It's the unbalance, not the total that makes life hell for the less well off.
Some of the states in the US are doing this as well. For example, Tennessee.[1]

[1]: http://www.tngis.org/lidar.htm
Iceland has even shittier public transportation than the US and is culturally Scandinavian. Let's not confuse different issues here.
In my view, the answer could be yes, not by itself but only depending on the side effects. Some possibilities:

1. Redistribution of wealth carries a corresponding redistribution of political power.

2. The quality of life for the bottom quartile (or choose your threshold) is increased by more than the corresponding decrease for the rich.

3. Redistribution increases consumer spending, which stimulates growth, if for instance the economy is in a state of poor demand.

Needless to say, these are all speculative on my part.
Because they are easier to bully as they are powerless. Duh.
I hope they have a long breath.

Actually, I expect them to give birth to a few amazing unicorns (not value wise but in terms of innovation), but at the same time it will take some time before there will be any visible results.
I have a family friend who lost about $100k to this scam. She made a good amount of money writing books but lost a good chuck of it trying to "help out." I'm sure there are more people like him out there, but at least they are getting caught.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... HackerNews: The Political Platform:

Step 1.) Vote for Obama

Step 2.) "OMG CIVIL RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED"

Step 3.) Support his continuation and acceleration of the Bush Era bank bailouts and War on Terror

Step 4.) Accuse everyone who disagrees with this policy a racist for 8 years straight

Step 5.) Watch as banks spend that bailout money on investments overseas because you're too irresponsible with credit, thus maintaining LIBOR while decoupling it from Keynesian virtuous cycles

Step 6.) Get super upset when nationalist movements appear because, honestly, how are flyover states with no tech skills even alive, amirite? I bet they have below 100 Reddit karma, too.

Step 7.) Deploy endless volumes of Jon Stewart-tier sarcasm when BitCoin suddenly appears and mock libertarians because we all know mocking people who support and expand a vehicle for capital flight is a super fucking brilliant idea.

Step 8.) Call everyone in the last two steps not only racists, but super duper ultra triple meanie racists for the remainder of Obama's term.

Step 9.) Aggressively support anti-1% narratives for Twitter cred reasons (as long as you can still afford that Juicero) while writing code that solidifies their position

Step 10.) Act startled when a bunch of people who didn't get benefits from repealing Glass-Stegall or get a six-figure salary paycheck for creating dog walker apps suddenly rise up and elect a grand master troll as president because fuck your system and your "intelligence"

Step 11.) Call everyone who isn't you a classification of racist that escapes measurement because the number to describe its intensity hasn't been invented yet.

Step 12.) Wonder why the surveillance systems you've programmed under Obama are now being deployed against you.

Step 13.) Write a comment on HackerNews complaining about this synopsis.