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During the peak of my athleticism, another high level athlete friend and I got very interested in Chess boxing, but he was a FAR better chess player than I and I was a far better martial artist than he.

We ended up settling on playing Scrabble-apples (non-referral link: https://www.amazon.com/Parker-Brothers-4979-Scrabble-Apple/d...), sort of a "each player builds their own scrabble crossword in front of them" game. Whenever you run out of tiles in your hand, you say "Peel!" and everyone draws an additional tile from the bag.

We put the bag at the bottom of a snow covered, forested hill.

2+ hours of snowy hill sprints combined with trying to make words out of scrabble tiles later... I fully appreciate how difficult it is to transition back and forth between brain and body heavy activities.
The reality is that many football programs are subsidized by their universities. The elite schools may profit, but there are hundreds of schools with football programs.

There are major downsides too: The kids are often used; they work incredibly hard, get paid nothing, and then get tossed in the gutter unless they make the NFL. Literally, I've read many stories where the coach stops talking to the kid (remember, 18, 19 years old often) and then someone gives him a bus ticket home - so much for education. The great majority of those who stay don't make the NFL; they leave with a lifetime of injuries, poor education (because they were discouraged from taking serious classes and often don't graduate), and no skills or prospects. The school, however, made tens or hundreds of millions, the coach made millions, TV networks made millions (billions?) ... a great business having free labor.

Also, the money and the intense loyalty invites incredible corruption; almost every leading program has had major corruption problems, with Penn State being the worst (systematic child rape covered up for years, so that the football program wouldn't be disrupted).

EDIT: Major edits
web.com is in Jacksonville. It's a banking and healthcare hub as well.

https://www.web.com/about-us/contact-us
One could argue that but I wont. I recall what wine looked like in the UK 30 odd years ago. Nowadays we have an embarrassment of choice including some pretty decent wines from the US.
My mistake. I confused it with "SimpleJoys" which they're using all over their website. SimpleJoys oddly enough can only be downloaded from the official Hilton Dropbox account.

Edit: In a bit of an ancillary note, it looks like they are serving the font directly from their wp-content folder as a static asset. This might indicate that they either came to own it or commissioned it.

http://resorts.hiltonbusinessonline.com/wp-content/themes/hi...
Is that a US thing? I understand that having some registry with this information is needed (but maybe not with details down to taxation) but... having it behind some officials "firewall" would solve that?
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I don’t know about studies - but the people who are master sommeliers that can do incredible blind tastings consistently give me comfort that it’s not all hocus pocus
In fact, competitive chess requires adapting a very merciless mindset and swapping empathy for "killer instinct".

In one interview - with Peter Thiel, by the way - current WC Magnus Carlsen was asked about Josh Waitzkin. (Waitzkin is a fairly well known and highly talented chess player, whose biography inspired the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer". He's left chess for martial arts since.)

Carlsen half-jokingly said Waitzkin hadn't succeeded in high level chess due to his insufficient killer instinct, which apparently made him settle for a "more peaceful" sport :) https://youtu.be/ZBnSU-LX1ss?t=1h2m

Or to quote former world champion Karpov, "Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully" (Botvinnik and Kasparov = other WCs, Korchnoi was a close contender for the title).

Is that something we should be encouraging the youth to be good at? ;)
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There's also AxLang. It's a core DSL based on Scala. Enables formal verification. Live demo on the public ETH mainnet:

https://medium.com/axoni/axlang-formally-verifiable-smart-co...
As Sweden ditches cash, criminals turn to stealing owls
Bikes, amirite?
Yes - and the second A (FAANG mentioned in a sibling comment tree) is Apple.
Yep but regular folks do much/all of their Facebook/Insta/Snapchat viewing in the apps not the web.
So ideally, I'd like to get an internship at NASA or an aerospace contractor. Do you know of any good colleges that provide the following:

1. internship opportunities like the one I described

2. good financial aid options for those returning for a MS degree

3. job assistance while attending school (like a work-study program that can pay for my way of living)
Does the rule work for Steve Jobs himself? Maybe it does, actually!
It's literally in the Merriam-Webster dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catfish

> "2 : a person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes"

Hard to get more "real dictionary" than that.

Edit: For that matter, "ghost" is also in the M-W dictionary in the sense of "suddenly cut off all contact with", you just have to scroll down a bit.
I think the government is going to stop subsidizing ocean and waterfront properties. Not sure if this is a cause or the cause.
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Applied math is definitely a major. Do you mean something else?
Yeah, but without air, the heat won't dissapate.
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I don't know what I don't know. I guess what I'm saying is, to the non-discerning wine drinker, there is red and white. Perhaps sweet vs. dry in there. It is much more difficult to taste the "dark fruit" and "light fruit" differences in particular reds than it is to taste the presence of certain overpowering notes in almost every beer. Wine is more subtle.

With beer, everything except pale lager tends to have a distinct flavor of some kind, that can be named easily. Chocolate, wheat, fruit, corn (Keystone), etc.
Pretty much... The firm that made Netflix Sans made this one too. Looks like they just tweaked it a bit for Airbnb.

https://twitter.com/kodform/status/996447044100386816
would be awesome to just:

docker run -it --rm pacvim

I'll probably build it tonight if nobody else does (please comment here so we don't duplicate work)
I see that on some pages. Try reloading.
I'm not looking forward to the day a computer beats a human at this.
Sunk cost fallacy maybe?
The entire article only references owls once. As an owl enthusiast. I found the lack of bird related content extremely dissatisfying.

Also in reply to your idea about breeding owls. I'm sure you can guess that it is difficult to breed these animals in captivity. If it were not, owl breeding would be more profitable than owl stealing.

There are 3 reasons for this.

1) Owls are monogamous during the breeding season.

2) The hooting season is very short.

3) Owl eggs are delicious.
comment not related to this article but more of a comment on data-driven user interfaces in general.

Building simplistic data driven UIs is (relatively) simple.

However, the issues arise as these get more complex.
Instead of just needing to understand a thing, you now need to understand the engine which builds that thing.

Looking at the react community where the new hotness is also data driven everything. UI definition (incl. CSS) all now detailed in JSON(which each original author custom builds), a lot of time without constraints(..'cos flexibility)

Building a data driven anything without having a very strong focus on debug-ability right from the get go is doomed to fail.
I don't know about you, but I couldn't finish the article. From the beginning, something irked me and it didn't feel like the author is completely innocent here. One thing that irked me a little is seeing the candidate worked at her previous company made her instantly like him. Once I got to the unnecessary admission the manager uses what even they consider as "unkosher" tactics to learn about the background of potential hires, I immediately closed the tab. I finished it later, but this is the same attitude we see from many managers: they set up poor systems, and get upset when those systems fail, like in this article, and there is no introspection on their part.
>and now he is super successful C level exec in Fortune 50 company

Sleaziness and moral flexibility in general seems to be a very useful soft skill for reaching high management levels.
shelljs?

https://github.com/shelljs/shelljs
Typefaces can't be protected, at least in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Similarly, people don't move to countries in southeast asia and live like kings. When asking "Why people don't just move", should ask the self "Would I move to southeast asia?"
Indeed. Many people fail to realize or acknowledge just how valuable those things are until they lose access to them.
That would be me. I don't have a fully passive set up (I don't really trust those, since I tend to use both the CPU and GPU a lot) but it's silentpcreview silent.

To make up for it, I'm using a mechanical Razer Blackwidow. It's so loud you can get distracted by the sound of your own typing :)
Yes, it absolutely can be. If you hire a designer, a lawyer, a builder, you probably don't do so via middlemen like Upwork.

That hiring freelancers, freelance developers in particular, often works differently is an outlier, not the norm.

There are various reasons for this but it has something to do with development work being organised and its value being measured as if it were manual assembly line labour, i.e. it's often measured in terms of time spent instead of value created. It also has something to do with freelancers often saying something along the lines of "I'm just a developer. I just want to code.", thereby both shifting responsibility for their work to somebody else and not recognising the true value of their work.

This needs to change. Freelancers need to take responsibility for their work (as in: "I'm not just two hands. I design and create solutions."). Clients on the other hand need to get out of the hourly mindset as well if they want to get real value instead of an anonymous commodity with the constant need for oversight.
It is my policy in the UK, and is the one recommended by HR experts for liability reasons. HR bods describe it as a factual reference. It is most definitely a recent US import, and I am not sure about it's penetration.

John Smith worked here between x and x as a tea-boy.

Personally I would much rather someone gave me a factual reference in good time, than an in depth reference eventually. Normally it is also OK for a manager to give a personal reference, ie not on behalf of the company.
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All you have to do is look at the final effect, Z. The stated purpose X may or may not be the intended purpose Y. Even if stated purpose X genuinely = intended purpose Y, the actual effect Z matters the most. You're spot on.
easy to log on w gmail. no issue. but the app only offered to find these attractions along my trip: camping, gas, store, etc.

am i missing something? seems like a great oppty to offer some exciting and unexpected options.

i would love a tool like this if it filled in the blanks with destinations that were new, exciting, unique, etc.
Radar has also been used to map underground ice deposits on Mars, see eg. [1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARAD

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARSIS
It's been done with water cooling and a car radiator on the wall ;)
I must shamefully admit: I don't recall the name. I have to go back to my tasting notes. This is based on memories from a few years ago.

I just remember being thunderstruck by the fact that something so cheap was (for my taste) better than Van Winkle. (Which I considered in general overpriced, but still pretty damn good.)
It is more convenient for us to use Google and Facebook login mechanisms than to create one from the scratch.

We use two methods provided by Passportjs (plus.login and userinfo.email).

I guess one of these asks for age range. You can check their documentation for more details at http://www.passportjs.org/docs/google/.

And for the transparency sake, these are the parts of code on our side.

router.get('/callback',
passportGoogle.authenticate('google', {
failureRedirect: '/'
}),
(req, res, next) => {
let user = req.user.doc;
let userId = user.userid;

///
res.cookie('token', userId, { ...

and this is what is saved to Mongo DB:

var UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
userid: String,
email: String,
sourcePlatform: String,
updated_at: { type: Date, default: Date.now },
});

Hope that helps ;)
If you're worried about this (good for you!), broaden your "platform". Don't rely on G and FB to tell you what they aren't telling you. It's somewhere on the web, though.
I did notice the subtle differences there and certainly agree.
In particular the angular terminals. That's why I said "almost". I'd never dismiss those differences, but do those subtle differences align with a goal of distinct identity? Identity feels like more of a higher level observation. For example, if you had two white hats with black text on them in each typeface, you probably wouldn't be able to identify at a glance which company they came from.
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Why would you want them to? A city consisting only of people who can afford $1.5m mortgages is missing most of the amenties and services you rely on and value. They only function in San Francisco today out of inertia; their ability to hire and retain staff is plummeting.
31 year old Houstonian checking in. Just bought a nice 3 bedroom house in the heart of the city, and I'm not even making 6 figures. I could have bought it right out of college, probably, too.
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> the author of the tweet clearly hid the tapered & much wider aperture of the Airbnbs e behind the image

Good catch. They obscured the most noticeable difference. Pretty cheeky.

And unnecessary. To the casual observer Netflix and Airbnb have the same new font.
> There's really multiple definitions of "functional" right now

> ...

>> ...monads...

There are also a couple of definitions of "monad" going around -- in array languages (J, APL, Q) a "monad" is something with arity 1 (like unary negate), to be contrasted with "dyads" which take two parameters (infix operators etc.)
It adds an incentive for the defense to intentionally crumple an offensive player's helmet with the intention of taking them out for a play or slowing down their rhythm. It would likely have a net-negative impact on safety.
Concussions are accumulative and most of them are not macro evident. Lots of micro concussions could be worse than a single big one.

So I do not think your data means what you believe it means.
There is a reason they call NFL "Not For Long".

I would not let my children play either American football or rugby, existing options like basketball or tennis. Luckily most of the world plays soccer.
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> (Astute readers will notice they are all AMD (Socket AM4) motherboards. The whole Meltdown/Spectre debacle rendered my previous Intel system insecure and unsecurable so that was the final straw for me — no more Intel CPUs.)

That's a silly and extremist position to take. "insecure" is relative, not absolute. It's a certainty that the software he's running has far more quantity of vulnerabilities and a much longer history of them. I don't know his exact use case, but arguably his use case isn't one where Spectre is particularly more severe than even a userland, non-priv-escalation vuln. (eg ransomware doesn't require root access to hold all your files hostage.)

> Eliminate the moving parts (e.g. fans, HDDs) and you eliminate the noise — it’s not that complicated.

Ha! And yet it deserved a detailed blog post. I'm surprised he would say this even after the amount of effort he spent.
You'd still need to get heat out. You could water cool the machine, but you'd still have fans/radiator on the outside.
Does anyone else with astigmatism notice that the e, c, and even the a are way too closed off? Especially for print (and on the heavier weights), good luck distinguishing these characters from far away with an o.
Are people really still dealing with IE6? I gave up web dev almost a decade ago and it's disturbing to hear that IE6 is still an issue!
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You could, but it would be thermally quite bad: The only way for parts to cool would be through radiation, which is way less effective than convection (be it forced by fans or passive, as in OP's design.)
If you want to read some previous discussion on a nearly similar topic (it happened to me), go here. Some EU devs also chime in about their experiences:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16637900

(spoiler: I didn't take the job)
Do you have numbers on this? I don't doubt this is a problem but I just don't have the data to back it up.
Being able to remote 100% of the time is not as common as people want to think here.

A lot of managers aren't comfortable with that notion, and basically ignore you when you make the case that a position is essentially impossible to fill when just letting it up to local market for labor.
The song is predated by the Kung-fu movie "The Mystery of Chess Boxing" by 14 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_of_Chessboxing
> Police facial recognition cameras have been trialled at events such as football matches, festivals and parades... High-definition cameras detect all the faces in a crowd and compare them with existing police photographs, such as mugshots from previous arrests.

> "When we first deployed and we were learning how to use it... some of the digital images we used weren't of sufficient quality," said Deputy Chief Constable Richard Lewis. "Because of the poor quality, it was identifying people wrongly. They weren't able to get the detail from the picture."

> Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said the issue had become a "priority" for her office.

When you roll out facial recognition technology at an event with ten thousand people and expect your magical facial recognition system to pick out just the bad guys, you quickly discover that even a system that's 99.99 percent accurate has a 63 percent change of giving you at least one false positive in that crowd. In reality these systems are probably closer to 95 percent accurate, in which case you're looking at vastly more false positives. Like hundreds per event.

This is the exact same statement as "breast cancer screening is staggeringly inaccurate." Do you know why breast annual cancer screenings aren't recommended for women under 40? Because breast cancer is so rare in that population that the high false positive rate outweighs the benefit of early detection. The correct thing to do is only screen only if there is already a suspicion of cancer.

Similarly, pervasive surveillance where you (statistically) consider everyone a possible criminal is a waste of time. Anyone who's ever taken a probability course will tell you that unless your facial recognition tech is fantastically accurate you'll waste all your police officers' valuable time sorting through false positives.

This is not an image quality issue. It's not a data quality issue. It's not a deployment issue. It's a Bayesian statistics issue. Unless your tech has superhuman 99.999% accuracy, it doesn't matter how accurate your facial recognition is if you're looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm sure the facial recognition is just as wonderfully accurate as breast cancer screening, it's just being applied to a population with a stupidly rare prior.

This is a statistics 101, freshman undergrad-level mistake, and frankly it makes me mad as hell that authorities are stupid enough to make it and boneheaded enough to endanger their entire population's civil liberties in the process.

For more info, check Wikipedia's page on the aptly-named prosecutor's fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor%27s_fallacy
> RESTful APIs are dominant currently.

That depends how you define RESTful. One's conforming to the architectural style Fielding described are quite rare.

> However, it seems to me that elements of the REST "style" are constricting for no reason.

While there may be debates over the merits of the reasons, nothing in REST is without a reason.

> I see how conforming to the original intention of the HTTP methods may be elegant or in some way natural, but I can't summon any kind of compelling justification for a restriction to only GET, PUT, POST, DELETE

REST does not impose such a restriction. Heck, REST is a big reason for PATCH and the proposed SEARCH method. OTOH, I think with PATCH and SEARCH added, the standard HTTP methods provide a pretty complete set of operations.

OTOH, while HTTP itself is a REST API, REST is not in anyway tied to HTTP or it's set of methods.

> Using GET forces parameters to be placed in the URL; wouldn't it be nice to deal with only POST requests with JSON bodies?

No, it would be better to have SEARCH, which is safe but takes a request body. Also, you literally just went 180° from complaining about being limited to only four standard methods to arguing that it would be better to have just one standard method. Without actually explaining either of those diametrically-opposed complaints.

> Web APIs are almost always accessed programmatically anyway.

Fielding-style REST (which, to be fair, most “REST” APIs are not) is pretty optimal for programmatic access, since it is fully self-describing and discoverable, given that the client has handlers for th involved media types used for resource representation.
As Sam Kinison used to say: "Move to the food!!!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKNoJ2BzSRU
Well they spent a ton of their time cramming flashcards of myriad regions and sub-regions and testing the wines, were then largely unable to identify which regions the wine came from, and a bunch of them still passed (I realize the test depicted was a practice but nowhere is this skill convincingly demonstrated by anyone). And the things they say about "notes of dead red rose petals" are taken to be mostly creative liberty and highly subjective so doing that well is more of being a showman than a technical expert. In general the type of people involved and their attitudes gave the impression that they just think it's cool to be "wine guys."

In my opinion it didn't paint a picture of substance or rigor. Not saying that the entire wine industry is devoid of that, but this particular view into it validated some of the criticisms in my mind.

Edit: one other thing I recall is that the results of the taste test portion of the actual exam are never released to anybody, which doesn't inspire much confidence.
Police add yet another massively inaccurate tool to their arsenal which they can easily put innocent people behind bars.

For example, bite mark “evidence” has been long disproven as having no basis in fact, but that doesn’t stop prosecutors from using it.
But this sounds like if Sue comes up to me and asks me to be a reference, I would have to turn her down.
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I'm actually someone who's very much a fan of power saving then retiring early.

Indeed, if I were to make a good salary in Silicon Valley and move to another metropolis, the math would work in my favor. But what if I found a partner? What about my friends and networks over there?

Retiring to a city where I didn't know anyone would suck.
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