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There are subjects so specialized that there is no textbook, and the time of the lecturer is so valuable that prep time for teaching is always going to be minimal. In these cases, lecturing is justifiable, but they are vanishingly rare. If there is a textbook then lecturing is pointless at best and probably harmful.
Buy advertisements from whatever publication you think your target audience is most likely to read. That's how it used to work.
I actually bought one of the scooters bird used because they’re cheap and they don’t usually have one right by my house... but I still rent them semi-frequently. They come in handy whenever you need to do a one-way trip, or spontaneously realize one would be useful and didn’t bring yours, and it’s kind of nice to not have to worry about maintenance/charging.
It is steep. Not saying it will make a huge impact but I’d be surprised if they didn’t sell 10-ride, weekend, monthly, etc. passes at a discount.
> as of LAST NIGHT, there was a mention on 1password.com of using DropBox and other mechanisms for syncing vaults

Below is exactly what the cited page said on February 1st – as far as I can tell, this post offers absolutely no support for this claim.

> Dropbox requires:

> 1Password 4 on Windows [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180201210656/https://support.1...
If I recall correctly, disks emulated 512 byte sectors for compatibility, but actually had larger ones. But I don't have documentation on such pre-google things :-)
I use BitWarden with monthly (manual) backups that I encrypt and store on my NAS
Vim also has persistent undo. Check out the options:

undofile
undodir

These will cause vim to store all file histories into files within that directory. Now you can close and reopen vim and continue undoing as much as you want!
How can a black hole hunger? Doesn’t its consumption mostly depend on how much matter is around it?
I’ve stopped myself from getting the 1Password subscription for exactly this reason. I’m still comfortable using the standalone version as I have control of my keychain.
Looks like sinemia only bills annually, so you're likely to lose quite a bit when they go under.
That paper had no proof attached, because it's a heuristic and can easily be fooled by a bad setting. So maybe some causal relationship that are obvious can be learnt passively. But what I am saying is entirely consistent with what Pearl is saying in the article. To get to the next level of ai you need an experimenting agent. Passive methods in general are impossible for untangling causal relationship.
Seems like an overreaction after reading the full article.
Yeah I couldn’t finish it. Was there anything of substance other than he got bad info from a rep on Twitter?
> you take it upon yourself to interpret and understand His divine will, and second guess Him

God's complete will is absolutely beyond human understanding (as he is infinite), but deducing facts about him and his will based on what he has said about himself is not human arrogance or second-guessing him. It's just straightforward thinking.

> I would be interested to see canonical scriptural references for this statement.

Ok, got some direct scriptural examples of a few categories of things God cannot do, because they are inconsistent with his character.

1) God cannot lie.

- Titus 1:2: "... in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began"

- Hebrews 6:18: "... so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us."

2) God cannot deny himself

- 2 Timothy 2:13: "if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself."

This implies that he can't go against his own word or his own express will.

3) God cannot be tempted with evil and does not tempt anyone.

- James 1:13: "No one undergoing a trial should say, 'I am being tempted by God.' For God is not tempted by evil, and He Himself doesn’t tempt anyone."

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This isn't to say he is restricted to doing only what he wants to do or actually does. Other passages refer to his ability to do things that he doesn't end up doing. One example is Matthew 3:9: "... God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!" -- something he didn't do and never said he would.

Please understand, AFAIK when the Scriptures speak of what God can't do, it's always meant as a comfort and encouragement to his people. E.g. from the above examples -- if he can't lie, deny himself, or be tempted with evil (much less do it), and if he is all-powerful to accomplish his holy will, then his words can be taken as rock-solid and trustworthy.

[Quotations from the HCSB translation.]
This guy's priorities are backward. He blows a gasket over 1Password not being 100% clear about their feature set (and somehow this offense is great enough to warrant dropping the product entirely), but seems unconcerned that he's entrusting his passwords to closed-source software. Why would any security-conscious person give 1Password a second thought when there are open-source alternatives?
Not everyone lives in a jurisdiction where copyright law exists. Among those who do, not everyone lives in a jurisdiction where this action is a violation of that law. Of those who do, not everyone recognizes copyright law as legitimate or binding on their conduct.
It's more widespread to be wary of people than goods. Goods could be handed off at trading posts and in fact were rarely carried end-to-end in one go.

There might have been a flow of goods, but it's doubtful there was free of movement of people, both as a practical matter of surviving a long journey, and having to explain oneself to authorities. The few documented adventurers and ambassadors travelled with an entourage, and news of their arrival often preceded them -- which was often necessary to avoid hostilities.
If you think you're not affected because you're in Australia, you're just deluded.
What happens after 10 years? Or is 10% per year some investment standard?

This ferengi formula goes way over my head. Here we just have government sponsored trains that take people places and costs what it costs. It all runs on wind. After doing the very bussy part of the trip you get to see giant trains with 1 or 2 passengers at 30 min interval. I think cheap parking for cleaning and maintanace alone makes it worth rolling them to barely habited areas.
For what it's worth, while I publish in conference venues, like ACM SIGCHI and ACM UIST, I also make every paper available online on my own website as explicitly allowed by ACM's copyright rules. Many authors in my field do likewise.

Unfortunately, the situation with many journals in the hard sciences tends to be more dire, especially since the longer history of their fields means that many important papers are only online as paywalled, scanned PDFs (where the original author may not even be around to make the work freely available).
Sure however this isn’t how the system is set up.
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True. But HN does invite this kind of thing..

I didn't finish it either.

AgileBits are trying to change their business/revenue model and that transition is not suiting this user. Shame for AgileBits but you can't please everybody.

One thing I noticed is that he's not happy to have his encrypted password file in the AgileBits cloud. This is the way LastPass works too. I get some folks don't prefer this but I don't see it as a major risk. If you're using any reputable password manager (a set that includes 1Password IMO) then you're 100x safer than the mainstream even using the vendors cloud hosting.
I appreciated the article, but I was expecting in the end a suggestion for an open source alternative. Finding it and proving that it is better than 1Password is the hard part.
For this usually CBMC is used. http://www.cprover.org/cbmc/

You can also use CBMC to solve the usual state reverse engineering problems, like coverage analysis, finding input for output, hash collisions, ...
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I guess unless you know where you go to, leaving your home places are hard.

The question is Middle man.

And in this disintermediation getting rid of middle man has means. But if the middle man is really in the middle, not sure you want to do it too openly. They would be in the way.

But if the middle man visits both sides ... Mongolian whilst you do not think they are tradesman (army is a kind of export actually but). They do not go to both sides. In fact it seems the famous one go to the other side is actually via Mongolian empire.
This argument is just degrees of risk. He's much safer using any password manager than not one at all.
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Instead of explicitly writing loops, you decalre an operation like add, and it is looped over a vector for you.
That is simply an overgeneralization. I work with two very talented engineers from “Red America” and they are eager to leave the Bay Area and get back to a place where people drive trucks, listen to country music, and hunt and fish. Their plan is likely going to be to work until their early 40s and then just retire to there.
that reminds me of reading Huckleberry Finn and having no idea what Jim was referring to when he used the word 'chile' until I actually sounded it out and then everything Jim was saying made sense
It can take days to weeks to hear back from a busy researcher to get a copy of their paper. Half the time you skim it and determine that its not useful. Sci-hub is instant.
> Why would any security-conscious person give 1Password a second thought when there are open-source alternatives?

I trust the security team behind 1Password more than a community of volunteers around open source password managers.
The family plan is honestly the best feature hands down. I setup my partner and my mom in it. There was some resistance at first to learning a "new thing". But now they love that they only have to remember one secure password and all their other passwords are automatically generated for them. No more pet names as passwords!
That was the intent of Russian misinformation campaign; to create an environment where all sides stop trusting each other.
> The French gvt sued him to transfer these trademarks.

They are only trademarks within France. Country names cannot be trademarked internationally as Iceland has found versus the Icelamd chain of supermarkets.
As a former intern at BloomReach (many years ago), having watched from the sidelines since then, it's great to see the company doing so well. The idea, then and now, was that the tooling that enables huge retailers like Amazon to automatically optimize user experience and SEO at the same time, by server-side auto-generating things like related-product widgets [0], could be brought to the entire universe of retailers. Some of the smartest colleagues I've ever worked with put together massive data pipelines and highly-available, low-latency systems to facilitate this, and the company's grown like a rocket ship since then, branching into data analytics and CMS (and now autosuggest) to provide a one-stop shop for any business looking to optimize their product presentation. And culturally, the values of internal transparency and meritocracy I learned there continue to inspire my own technical leadership style. For anyone with the level of product diversity where these types of systems start to make sense, I'd recommend them in a heartbeat.

[0] https://www.bloomreach.com/en/products/organic
> It defeats the purpose of "high speed" if you can't actually get to "high speed" due to stops.

Not in the slightest. Every successful HSR system in the world has plenty of stops in what most people would consider trivial towns. And they all regularly run on average well below their top speed because of it. Those aren't pointless stops; when put in the context of the rest of the cartesian network, they provide significant enough revenue to justify their own existence.

This is true for both HSR lines that are publicly owned as well as pure private systems like in Japan...in other words, they aren't there for political reasons. In fact, the most financially successful lines in the world happen to have the most stops in <50k population towns. If there is any political influence in the matter, it is doing the opposite and passing up stops with little political power, to their financial detriment. Like I said, the real reason for the power in HSR is acceleration, not top speed.

The only thing that defeats the purpose of HSR is when they don't make enough money to justify their existence, making them eventually go away.
I think it's time that we recognize reliance on corporations for our most critical software tools, those which are used not only in our businesses but in our daily personal lives, is a mistake.

The Free and Open Source Software movement is the only one that really ever truly serves the public. For things like password managers, it should be a no-brainer to go that route instead of trusting your entire life's secrets to some complete strangers who are only motivated by profit.

KeePassXC and passwordstore.org make all the alternatives obsolete and inferior.
The goal is to not be part of the spyweb and to have another separate safe space. Following your suggestion you get:

(a) to be part of the spyweb - so they can still track you via web requests

(b) not part of an independent net - so there isn't a higher proportion of signal, because the content generators are the same and targeted at generating adrevenue, not independent hobbiests sharing information about their interests.

Consequently I don't think it will work.

Gopher would work in the sense that you would notice the transition from a gopher site to a web site.
Walk a mile in her shoes before you cast stones.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/26/harassment_of_femal...
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There aren’t 30+ freight trains each day, and they don’t run over an average of 1 pedestrian per month as far as I know.

But hey, as long as we can provide an affordable way for transients to get to and from the needle exchange safely.
I love using LastPass, and it's very easy to export all of your passwords and notes as CSV. If they go under, it would be easy to migrate to a different service. A quick Google search brings up many API clients for KeePass, so it should be simple to read the CSV and import all my passwords into KeePass.

I used to use KeePass, but I think LastPass is much nicer and more convenient. I also like using the LastPass Authenticator app for 2FA.
Recommend see this documentary about the History The Secret of Monkey Island - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17116024
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Then it may as well be first instance of 3d printing.
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Flights between Melbourne and Sydney are cheap though, and already fairly fast.

The train would need to be under 4 hours to really be competitive with flying.

It could be done, with something like a TGV style train. I can't imagine how much it would cost though.
There's taking risk, and then there is taking risk with a solid understanding of what the risks are and how to mitigate them.

Two entirely different things.
The CEO is betting that people will sign up and forget they have a subscription.

No business survives when its runs on their customers stupidity.
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> God cannot be tempted with evil and does not tempt anyone.

Is creating evil in the first place not being tempted by it?
Yes I have lost my ticket before, and the attendant was able to look up how long my car was parked by the license plate and charge me appropriately
Lightning + aluminium wire is a problem. I suspect an electrical current will form in the wire even w/o lightning because of static electricity. Also the wire is a hazard if it breaks and falls down. It will probably cut everything in its path.
This is a sad ripoff of the concept behind the longstanding Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-Lytton_Fiction_Contest
Huh? I have never heard of anyone saying erlang is bad because of couchdb. I've heard criticisms of couchdb itself, sure. But they've been more along the lines of "MVCC multi-master document stores are not a good solution for this problem" more than "CouchDB is a bad MVCC multi-master document store".
Absolutely. The guy taking the blame on himself really is amazing to me. He has completely accepted the crazy automated rules google decided for their service, and thought he was the culprit.

Guys, just because something is anounced and written in an EULA , doesn't mean you're actually to blame. Sometimes rules are insane and created by people for really bad reasons (such as not wanting to spend a correct amount of money on customer support for your services, in order to be even more profitable).
I have been meditating for 6 months now and the actual breakthrough came with the realization that meditation was not about "doing" rather "letting it be". So, no more struggling with trying to calm my mind and rather letting things be as they are. Now while I have gotten better, there are days when I struggle but now there is no more frustration about things not working.

Some of my friends and colleagues ask me what is meditation and how to start? And I always say it is about focus and being present. A good example is listening to music - when you are listening and focusing on the beats and thinking about nothing else, you are in a meditative state. Or even eating food. A good one is Raisin meditation -

https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/raisin_meditation

And then people can build from there to a no-external help meditation and focus on breathing etc.
I don't quite get pouchdb. Do you need to store multiple revisions of the same document in a browser database? Locks/transactions seem like a better approach here for writing to data client side.
> I recently signed up for Cinemark movie pass for $8.99 a month. What's amazing is that their commercial seems to strongly suggest the tickets are a discount. It never explicitly says so.

They probably are in high-cost urban markets which probably account for a large share of their volume.

> It's hilarious because a weekend evening ticket is $7.75 a ticket,

My local Cinemarks' prices for weekend evening tickets for standard-format 2D (they don't have IMAX, but do have XD at an upcharge) range from $11.75-$12.75.
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C# is widely used, but it's a bit of a sacred cow.
I agree. I try and use solutions that have open source formats, and are preferably open source.

I have made an exception for 1Password, as it is so good. I hate subscription for software, unless there is a clear benefit. In this case, I don't see the benefit.
Do theaters pay studios per showing or per ticket sold? If it’s per ticket sold, then monthly passes could be cost prohibitive for theaters: they would end up eating the cost of people going to 5 movies in a week, while owing the studios more. If they pay per showing, then monthly subscriptions with caveats like “only 30 seats for monthly passes available, until an hour before the show, when all seats become available” could make sense.
I also grew up in a small Florida East Coast town, which Brightline will eventually pass through on its way to Orlando.

My parents, who still live in Florida, regularly give me an earful about the train. To an extent, I can see where they're coming from: there has been some controversy over who will pay for crossing upgrades to handle these faster trains, and increased train traffic will mean increased crossing delays in these smaller towns. There have also been some well-publicized pedestrian deaths (https://bit.ly/2GA0QN2) along Brightline's existing route.

But I'm in favor of these trains, and I think most of the opposition amounts to classic NIMBYism. Transportation in Florida is a nightmare, and passenger rail is the obvious solution. And I find it inconceivable that any accidental deaths due to the additional train traffic won't be offset by even fewer deaths on the highways.

Florida has a proud history of rail transportation (there's a reason Florida has an entire county named after Henry Flagler), and Brightline could be a return to some of those past glories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Railroad
There's talk of a remotely similar venture in Australia connecting Melbourne and Sydney ("via" Canberra), and establishing up to eight greenfield cities along the route.

http://www.clara.com.au/the-clara-plan.html

Bold plan but I hope they can see it through.
Now, this is the type of comment I look to find when I click on the comments section, a point by point breakdown of the article with an alternative point of view.
The beauty of Bird/Lime is that you just grab one when need one then leave it at your destination. For this to work you need lots of scooters/users. The more users/scooters the better the services becomes.

This situation where the more sales/users the better the quality becomes and the lower the cost/price becomes is known as the "network effect". This is what drives the incredible value of things like Facebook and to a lesser extent Uber/Lyft.

You can't really replicate this by buying a personal scooter because they are heavy and bulky. And you can't replicate this with "thousands of little local scooter shops" would be extremely expensive (real estate and labor) and add little value. And you can't replicate it with even driverless cars because they will be much more expensive and subject to congestion and other constraints. Lastly if scooter prices did come down the service would just become cheaper to provide but all the advantages would remain.

So despite your numerous agruments against the business it seems plausible that a Bird/Lime scooter network would makes sense versus alternatives and likely that a single business could capture most or all of a market. They would then enjoy a sustainable quality/cost advantage over potential competitors.

Make sense?

More info on the underlying phenomena here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
>> less likely to screw things up

By virtue of education or selection process?

The main problem with throwing 15 year olds into NASA is that, for a given year, there are far more of them than there are MIT graduates.

What is unbalanced about how we educate teenagers is that we saturate them with too many interactions with other teenagers (8 classes a day with 30 other students ~240 unique edges per student) and expect them to be able to focus on learning the course material. This despite the fact that adults outnumber teenagers by a considerable margin. It should be no surprise then that our society in the US is largely centered around childish interests as the majority of our social interactions have occurred as children with children.
So on the last day at my shit job in the shit office, I should just go ahead and abuse the refund policy? Sounds crazy to me..
Gyms?
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The blog author additonally emailed support with a lengthy overview of the changes and reponse from the rep and received the reply that v6 of their product has always been a cloud subscription only offering, which according to the author's experience was not the case.

The primary contention of the blog post and the tl;dr is v6 of the product allowed for a 'local' vault until a particular build and AgileBits isn't being open about this change, which the author feels is some slippery slope to other, hypothetical compromises.
Yes, it makes sense.

When it goes under, you lose just that months fee. In the mean time you get to go the movie theatre.