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Well yeah, looking at popular music will do that. There's a massive amount of advertising money to make it popular.

Look at the less forced genres of music. Rap in the USA, Grime in the UK, similar but different. The UK has a very different type of indie (named from coming from an independent label) music. And Country is only popular in the USA.

If you have a quick look on the surface it can be similar, but if you look deeper, where it matters, then the variation is there.

That said, I do think having more languages is better, a more diversified ecosystem is more likely to survive. And from my point of view, it's more interesting to live in.
Can anyone with better knowledge of satellite tech explain why exactly this article mentions use against Norwegians and draws a parallel with illegal spying?

The source documents they provide seem to be about targeting satellite traffic (Inmarsat, RU civ/mil traffic, etc) from certain foreign satellites.
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Why? It's literally an AZ out of many that AWS provides.
I think you just need to wait, or expose them to more sunlight. The actual yellowing is due to a flame retardant.[0]

[0] http://www.instructables.com/id/Restoring-yellowed-Stormtroo...
Imagine that you find a job that excites you, and you look forward to working on challenging stuff every week.

So the question you have to ask yourself is this: Is the difference in pay between these two jobs really worth it?

The times when I asked myself this question, the answer was always really clear.
There's so much irony here. The only way they'll be able to maintain a monopoly is with regulation, and they're the first to ignore regulations.

If in the future they get their coveted monopoly, won't it be sweet when someone flouts the rules and undercuts them?
Ah. This makes sense. Thanks. I will look into the hacks.
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If that had to drive down a busy street it wouldn't be driverless.

The way it's configured it's basically an elevator.
My story. I've even done a PhD myself. I'd barely recommend doing a degree anymore to most people. The pace of change is huge and universities are barely keeping up. The most needed is practical skills, which you can take on the go and use online learning courses.
That article is strangely over-focused. Students and intellectuals have long been revolutionaries across many cultures and centuries.
The games had a somewhat fun story already. Why the movie decided to completely throw them out the window was baffling.
From the link:

Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++
programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.

lol, thanks for that
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Learn Icelandic for free online, via the gov-supported course:

https://icelandiconline.com/

Goes up to advanced level. The appeal for me is the ability to understand one of the least changed old European languages, much akin to our Old English. One that is bizarrely and amazingly still spoken.

Admittedly I do speak a fair bit of Swedish, potentially making things easier, but even without that there are many cognates that make learning it easier for English-speakers. Or German-speakers, for that matter.
For some schools, including all schools in the UC system, CS majors have to take EE classes as part of their requirements. I remember having to setup and program gates and the sort on FPGA boards.
I'm pretty sure I heard ads from Uber or Lyft on local popular music radio stations while driving advertising $15 - $20/hr wages.

Some discussion on this site:

https://uberpeople.net/threads/uber-radio-commercial.27343/

Not sure if these are the same commercials I heard.
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I think that the idea that all languages but English are going to fade away makes sense to people who only speak English.

I've lived in Germany for a couple years, and have noticed that when native English speakers come here, the Germans all speak to them in English, and when the English speakers go away, the Germans immediately revert back to their native tongue. They can usually do the same for French speakers and sometimes Spanish or Italian too. What this means is that Europeans speak several languages, and English speakers speak one, and therefore English speakers only encounter English.

I suspect the same is true in Iceland, but I have never been there so I can't say for sure.
I would love it if American public schools offered a wider variety of languages (my high school in south florida offered Latin in addition to Spanish, German, French, and Italian). But my children's high school in Oregon only offers Spanish. There is 1 German teacher in the entire school district, but she is in a different high school.
I totally agree with you, but I'd add one additional thought. While being born in a first world country is a huge leg up - I think it assumes you're raised by a competent single parent or reasonably competent parents.

Having parents who understand hard work (and can show you what it looks like) and good financial habits makes it easier for you to develop those same traits as an adult, in my experience.
Nice, awesome work!
There's dozens of current free-to-play games out there with that sort of technology, plus others like Elite Dangerous that even do it in VR.
Love the practicality of this simple practical tutorial. The only pity is that it's in Python 2
Yucca's issues were political though, a byproduct of democracy.
This was the game that taught me what system requirements were. My parents got it for me for my birthday or Christmas - went to install it and my Leading Edge purchased from Crutchfield just laughed at me.
>The answer is network effects. If I started a competitor to Twitter/etc my site would (initially at least) have few users so there would be no interesting content that would make people go there. Incumbents have an enormous advantage.

It's not just network effects. As the OP describes the outrage is also generated as a means to keep people glued to their screens. This is a staple of the 'attention economy' that has been growing around social media.

The problem is obviously that attention is a zero sum game. Instead of technology bringing humans closer together and fostering genuine interaction and making us more productive, this form of economic activity wants us to waste more and more time, creates addictive mechanisms, artificial anger and so on.

It's the very opposite of what technology should exist for. Market solutions aren't going to fix it I'm afraid. If anything they're like a big megaphone that even make it worse.
That is exactly what happened. He played a friend of mine whose much lower rated. Eventually the lower rated player found himself in winning position but when the draw was offered he assumed he must be missing something and accepted it. So it worked once.
How is that an argument defending these companies from taking advantage of people?
Books aren't treated well by adaptations, so how can we expect games to fare any better?
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Bundled payments are slowly gaining traction and help align incentives a little better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundled_payment
I think pascal gets you the best of both worlds.
> The Obama birther movement was borne out of an inability for Republicans to reconcile that Obama had won the election legitimately, and sought to disqualify him with anything they could find. Is the parallel more clear now?

not at all. birtherism is made up and borne of racism. Russian interference in the election is not and is borne of facts. While you are setting up a situation where these two things look the same, that only goes as far as them both being fantasies made up out of desire for them to be true. But that is not the nature of Russian election interference. There is no "parallel" between nonsense and reality. Democrats did not invent Russian election interference, it was observed in inconclusive, small ways before the election and tamped down by media reports, but then after the election it was shown to have been true and the government and media reversed its public-facing course. There would not be a federal prosecutor, the FBI, and multiple congressional committees involved over a period of months/years if this were a made up thing and you would not see Democrats talking about it. Democrats (Democrats, not fringe left-wing parties) do not engage in the type of made-up nonsense that was birtherism. The GOP should not either.

> are seeking to disqualify him with anything they can find.

The president cannot be "disqualified" from the election results, which are established history. Only impeached for his extreme conflicts of interest, ethical transgressions, conduct and unfitness for office, or preferably, removed of his partisan congressional protection in 2018 and voted out in 2020. Democrats are not calling for any kind of re-do of the election, feel free to provide a source for this of actual Democrats (not fringe left-wing parties) calling for this.

edited for tone
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You might be thinking of this project: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-proxy
That would end up being too much to cover during the course.

Time spent getting a class to learn new syntax is unnecessary and takes a long time.
From my brief look at firejail, how would I do the rollback? (i.e. reset everything back to exactly how it was before the run). Also n.b. I'm not rolling any security measures of my own here - it's reliant on the kernel correctly separating users.
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I remember getting it into my head one day as a kid that I _had_ to have WC II right away. Would probably would have been several years after it came out, though - I think I might have gotten one of the later re-releases.

I also remember being deeply moved by the story of Spirit and her captured husband, and her suicide run on the Kilrathi starbase at the end of WCII.

The article has some valid critiques of the merits of the story and the gameplay, but I've always had extremely fond memories of the game.
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Loved the Wing Commander universe and specifically Privateer of all things (not Privateer 2 sadly). I think my fav of most of the games was Wing Commander III - I suspect many people thought it was cheesy having video integrated like that - it was becoming more popular in a certain timeframe in 90s video games, but man they did a good job.
These materials stop at a very low level though (undergraduate education). You really can't find canned lectures on many "mildly advanced" topics (even calling upper division undergraduate work "mildly advanced"). It's hard to find someone to ask questions about nonlinear partial differential equations if you get stuck in some book and aren't at a university.
What's negative about employing servants?
I'm not sure about segmenting intro courses by majors, but there is good research that suggests that segmenting CS1 by level of background knowledge has a significant positive impact on future coursework [0]. I suspect that a larger proportion of students who eventually study CS have a higher degree of background knowledge as well, so this probably makes sense.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2445248, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2255982
>It'd also be easier if everyone painted all their houses the same color, ate the same foods all the time, and lived in a universally cookie cutter world, but that'd be terribly boring.

not a fair comparison. learning a second language takes much more resources (time and money) than having different paint colors or food choices.
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If we start to factor in "costs to society" then you have to also consider RoI to society in the form of wider access to education. Both are diffuse and difficult to measure which is why, rightly imo, they're excluded from most amateur discussions.

Considering the number of universities that are in the middle of nowhere, so much so that the idea of the "college town" is a thing, Im a little incredulous as to the real costs from that use of "prime real-estate" in a holistic sense.
Pointers aren't the bad thing about C++.

Syntax, templates, etc. are. C++ is a mess, and there are plenty of better alternatives.
And then the problem is that we are biased to believe that the winners did almost everything right, and the losers did almost everything wrong. Often is chance.

Having said that, those who persevere, by definition are more likely to succeed. They have more changes.

"The harder I work, the luckier I get".
But has any of them really captured the feeling of the originals, in your opinion? Not to mention not being set in the Star Wars universe... I have a similar problem with FPS, after playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, I haven't been able to enjoy any other FPS :( They're good, they're OK, but they're not quite ET.
Reply All has a good episode this week that discusses drop shipping. (https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/117-the-worlds-most-ex...). Seems to be based on this article - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s... Basically no one really knows if there is money in drop shipping, but people are making money by teaching people about it.
I agree that the mistake of discounting the important role luck plays in success doesn't seem to know class bounds.
There's a lot of hate against Magic Leap, but an upgraded Hololens with 6DoF controllers sounds good to me!
My anecdotal evidence also agrees with yours.
You've not made a convincing argument for why this kind of fraud should exist.
Hm interesting, the report suggests that 8-hour drivers are doing more like 60 miles per shift (($4.79 * 8) / 0.6).

Curious what the huge discrepancy is there (between self-reported and gathered data), though without being able to see the underlying data I guess we can't tell.
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> the gallery usually does a LOT for their 50%. Basically they take over the "business development" work -- all the schmoozing, the selling, the legitimizing.

This, of course, varies. An interesting/tricky part is that the gallery acts simultaneously as a manager, agent, and distributor of the artist's work. Imagine if Brad Pitt worked with the same company to handle his day-to-day affairs, negotiate his fees, and then sell the resulting movies. Not saying it's a conflict of interest, but it is an oddity of the art market.
Many live and work abroad, plus there's several pockets of Icelanders in various countries, like one notable group in Western Canada as you'd see in places like Gimli, Manitoba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli,_Manitoba

It's not clear how many still speak Icelandic, but there's heritage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Canadians
There are some anti-abuse features on HN which cause some new accounts to be banned when they're created. Such comments will be marked [dead], not [flagged][dead]. I suspect that's what's happened with both 'hncensorship and 'throwaway12395 (though I didn't see the status of the latter's comment before it was vouched). Some people get caught by this feature unintentionally: if they suspect this is the case, the mods have been very open about whitelisting such accounts. You can email them via the Contact link in the footer.

Note that this is different from people being flagged or down voted by members because of content. I can imagine it's very frustrating, but they are different behaviors. In one, specific action has been taken by members; in another, one has been caught by automated anti-abuse measures.
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As far as video game movies go it was rather good. I enjoyed it, even having played most of the Wing Commander games that came before it.

I think that movie would be better received if it was released today instead of 19 years ago. We’ve had close to 20 years of comic book movies that are mostly divorced from their source to make such a source-material-disjointed movie more palatable.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned that a binary that can do that would be huge for me.
That is why this study is so misleading.

They say more than 80% of Uber drivers work less than 40 hours per week so that "median profit of $3/hr" is probably for someone working 10 hours per week.
I'm not quite sure what your question is with the spent fuel pool. The water will just sit there and slowly evaporate probably or be cleaned and checked for contaminants before going elsewhere. It's really not that much water. I think you're making a problem where there isn't one.

The water keeps it from melting as the spent fuel becomes a little more inert each day (it transfers heat to the water, and as we know radioactive stuff has half lives). After a few years, we can move it to dry storage (incased by concrete and steel).
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>> return to the Middle Ages <<

Why not? At lease Charlemagne could almost read and promoted education.
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The section on openssh misses some things like ssh certificates:

SSH certificates are a CA type model for openssh, where you can trust one key, and anything it signs will be trusted, great for stuff like cloud/server deployments and reimaging, way way too many people either blindly trust new ssh keys, or just disable server fingerprint checking entirely, opening yourself up to trivial MITM attacks.

you can also restrict user keys themselves to a subset of ssh functionality, rather than trying to lock down individual users via ssh config etc.

You should be careful specifying an explicit list of ciphers/kex/key/etc acceptable algos, because the openssh defaults and included algos have changed with time, and by setting an explicit list, you will not get any new ones as they are added (for instance they have recently added experimental post quantum crypto support), nor will weak ones be removed. If you need to add options to connect to older servers that do not support newer, stronger crypto its recommended you prefix them with + so they are added in addition to the reasonably secure defaults, not replacing them.

The mozilla recommendations list also fails to mention that stuff like sftp can be chrooted, and other ssh functionality disabled so it functions more like a secure alternative to ftp, and less like a tool to run remote commands.
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There is also a pattern referred to as "high/low keys"[0] and works quite well so long as the architecture guarantees access to the master when a new high key is needed.

Of course, this can be mitigated by allocating small batches of high keys as well if connectivity to the master is unreliable. However, having a 32 bit low range implies the need for batch high key allocation is negligible for all but the most pathological situations.

0 - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/282099/whats-the-hi-lo-a...

EDIT: Re-read your original description and realized you described a related, but different, approach of directly reserving key ranges.
You can’t both flag an article on a topic off the frontpage so few in the audience see it and get to claim that another article on the topic is a dupe for the audience.
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How about - AI not as stupid as humans who believe "AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code"!!!!!

Fuck me, seriously?

"Fuzzing on a platform not in use commonly by humans finds something cool, human intelligence writes a paper about it."
Do we have an unlimited supply of petroleum and the bandwidth to extract all of it at a reasonable price? Because, last I checked, that stuff is used for a lot of other things that is not "making Legos".

Or is this just the "well, if all power isn't green it's just so futile" argument in a fetching hat?
Your anecdote is both valid and interesting, I suppose (having had a bit of time to reflect on my post) what interests me is:

some measures to improve diversity and counter privilege will ironically favour people who are privileged.
I hate python. It's an awful language and should be burned with fire. And yet its my go-to language when I just need to handle some small problem. It's so bad, and I use it anyway because it gets the job done. I never use C++ any more. (well, I used C once last year to create a brute force DNA search algorithm that was 30x faster than our previous implementation, but that kinda proves my point). fuck, i learned to program in BASIC.

I was gonna say "maybe Node", but there are a lot of python libraries that benefit academics.

But it sounds like the course we're talking about here is for actual CS majors, in which case, UCLA, are you fucking mental? Python?

I think the issue here, though, is that C++ is fucking garbage now. It's utterly horrible to use, bloated in all the wrong places while utterly non-existent in places that would make day-to-day use of the language viable. Last year I used C (not C++) to get the job done. You'd have to be insane to build a large scale product in C++, and in the places you really need performance, C or assembly is better.

I think UCLA is correct to drop C++. But teach C instead, not python.
Serious question: If people want to post hateful content, what is preventing them from doing so on either their own website, or to one of the many existing websites which are friendly to that sort of content?

I honesrly don’t understand why mainstream social media websites should be allowing that sort of thing. There are plenty of other places they can freely post, so they really are not being censored.
Python is probably as effective as C++ for preparing students for more challenging CS classes in other languages [0]

[0] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1734437
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99.99% of programmers will never need a machine level understanding of the programming language and architecture they use.

Really the only people I see might be machine level understand are 3D engine developers and high speed stock traders. VERY few other people need to understand how you need to organize your collections so that they are brought over in the correct page size from the L3 to L2 cache.

From what I have seen many programmers have no clue as to when to optimize something. They want to optimize everything which is a huge waste of time.

As for programming classes, they are pointless in modern society but most(ALL?) companies still like to see that you have jumped through the hoops correctly. And that you can be trained correctly to "Be a good team member".
What's the under or non-performance? If a company is generating enough cash to buyback its shares, that's every bit as much a real return to shareholders as a dividend would be.

If a company retires 10% of its shares from a buyback, each investor now owns ~11% more of the company than they did before.
Being fortunate to have a die to roll with is a form of luck. Over 10% of the world lives on less than $1.90 a day, and there's no way out - it's not a matter of determination.
I appreciate the offer, but I'm positive you can spot the issues yourself.

Gensim has many warts for sure, but a benchmark that gives a green tick to itself in "Simple Pythonic interface" and a red check mark to Gensim, while copying the Gensim interface almost verbatim, was not created in good faith.
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