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> "What tumblr did was that suddenly all "NFSW" things to US standards"

What was honestly expected? Tumblr was an American company and they got bought by another American company. The brand had a reputation for hardcore pornography which was doubtlessly toxic to advertisers (most of whom are also American companies), so expecting Yahoo to turn a blind eye just wasn't realistic.

If you want a website moderated to the Japanese standard, you should probably find a website run by a Japanese company that supports itself with advertisements purchased by Japanese companies (a Japanese company in the business of selling advertisements to American companies would probably apply the American standard.)
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If it keeps cows alive it should be good enough for humans too.
Eh, I think that's mostly a consequence of the group considered rather than fundamental behavior. See e.g. the discussion about the same effects in science as they develop their own group think (jargon)
I read a short novel about the legendary flight written by a security officer that was deployed at Bakonur at the time. It was in Russian (of course) and called "How we launched Buran". The novel had all sorts of fascinating details about the enormous state enterprise as well as various anecdotes about the Army and the KGB folks.

I tried looking for it, but could not find it. Perhaps someone had saved a copy... or even stumbled upon an English translation.
I enjoyed that, there mere mention of Shaw AFB brought back memories of serving there in the late 80s leaving just before the first Gulf "war" broke out.

anecdotal part goes here.

Being in IT back then was fascinating, the secure comm side systems were Burroughs of the generation just after tube computers went out of style. Complete with paper tape booting or switches and lights. The main system which I was on was a Sperry 1100/70 using cards as the main input from on base customers. Those transitioned into images on a 360k diskette when I was leaving. The system data was mostly stored on tape (autoloading reel) and there were three disk packs including one we joked was kick start (seriously, if you swapped packs and it didn't spin you faced away with your butt on the edge and swift flat to the side hit it with your boot).

It was that diskette that got me into programming. I started with Turbo C and Turbo Pascal settling on the second. The tool we were provided by Sperry would upload the card images one line at a time. On our Sperry branded PCs (same as IBM/XT) it could take longer to upload a deck than to run one through a card reader and the personelle group had the equivalent to three boxes. I ended up digging into the emulator software, the arcane manuals we had, and whooped up something in TP that did it in a tenth of the time. From that point on it was off to the races for my desire to program.
Would you mind sharing links to any of the resources you used to get yourself going with kops on AWS? I'm in the midst of setting up my first cluster as we speak.
Genuinely surprised at how much most people on this thread seem to consider salary as the most important variable when it comes to where you'd want to live.

Relocating TO the US from other countries is often a nightmare, no matter how talented you are.

And I personally care more about how much I like the culture and environment around me after work and on the weekends than how much I'm being paid.

SF is really great, but it's not London.

All that is to say, there's more to it than money. At least for some people.
This study was sexist and is perpetuating gender stereotypes which have existed in the male-dominated culture for the last few thousand years. Men and women are capable of performing the exact same tasks equally well. Any hiring should treat genders exactly equal.
I can't remember, because those times never existed.
IRC was the only open one, before XMPP. The first one will stay forever.

All other protocols like ICQ, MSN, AIM were reversed so that you can use your Miranda/Trillian/XYZ, not what I would call "open".
Sealing out external noise when riding a bike is probably even more dangerous. Just keep the volume down and accept that sometimes it'll get drown out. Most apps repeat the directions anyway.
With this release, it is also possible to install it without admin privileges.
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Like all that "just around the corner" lab grown meat?
Wait, are there people out there that consume absurd amounts of protein for "health" reasons without doing any exercise?

Do they seriously think they have a protein deficiency?
Mozilla's JS docs are enough.

There is also a free book called Eloquent Javascript which everyone loves, but I only skimmed.

There is nothing that jumps out - native Javascript is a lot better than it used to be, so you won't find yourself absolutely needing frameworks except for Angular/React for line-of-business apps.

Don't get too hung up on prototypal inheritance either, I will get downvoted to hell for this, but no one cares. It's only asked about in interviews.
I did and it might not just be your view but also that you seem to answer not to what was argued, but something else in the broader vicinity of the topic.

I will not go into details since that makes for boring reading for everyone else, but that's what I thought about.

Sorry for being so blunt, but then I thought you might want to know.
Which makes me wonder, what would industrialized farming and eating of insects do to the taste?
Depends what you mean by taste, but chicken is a blank canvas to be painted with flavors. What it does provide is an excellent texture that I doubt can be replaced with insect protein.
Yes, it matters. People need to have a better understanding of how these processes work, and not just to think everything related to big-tech is solved by machine learning.
I've definitely noticed a tendency in modern times, especially among Americans, towards all-or-nothing-ism. Someone's work is either completely right, or completely worthless. All you have to do is poke a few holes, and then you can dismiss the whole thing as nonsense. Usually, it culminates in an insular attitude of "I don't need to see the evidence to know it's wrong."
Papers by Balkanski, one of the co-authors, including the one discussed, "An Exponential Speedup in Parallel Running Time for Submodular Maximization without Loss in Approximation", are at http://ericbalkanski.com/publications/ .
Should trade secrets even apply to an organization that is supposed to be a non-profit? What are they even competing against?
Liability, which is basically protection from lawsuits (slipping and falling)
> I’ve gotten to the point where I actually view people who listen to others and are open to changing their opinions when confronted with good advice as being much more intelligent than those who are sure they are right about everything all the time.

I also find this to be a useful heuristic. Particularly "How seriously does this person take my ideas? When I'm wrong, do they make an effort to explain why? Are the open to me being right?"

This works best when you're a student or otherwise new to something Obviously, it won't work when you have status over the person; they'll listen to you anyway.
I want to do an app with FB and Maps together, do you think is possible ?
> .NET, Java, etc. all sound so 1990-ish.

.NET 1.0 was released in 2002 ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework_version_history...
To give a full list would be impossible, simply because the book is so dense, plus it wouldn't make much sense without context. The "Reception" section of the book's wikipedia entry gives a good general overview of what's good and bad about it[0].

Basically, McGrilchrist makes claims about what we know about how the brain works with a certainty that we simply don't have, let alone draw conclusions from it as if they're facts. He's also prone to "start from a viewpoint and find evidence that matches it"-line of thought (Popper would not be happy...). But if you are aware of that and appreciate more how the whole overarching narrative fits together it's a very enlightening book with very inspiring lines of thought.

Anyway, in my experience it goes very well with:

- "Metaphors We Live By" and other works by Lakoff & Johnson, the book that introduced the concept of "conceptual metaphor" to the world. They are referred to a lot and having read them helps you spot when McGilchrist might be misinterpreting their work.

- "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker, who asides from writing a really fun book on language, also gives some good arguments tempering Lakoff & Johnson's overenthusiasm a bit without being dismissive of them (although in their defense, metaphors are criminally underrated in their importance to thinking).

- most books by Oliver Sacks, who is more qualified to make statements about the brain than anyone else on this list, but "Seeing Voices" especially, because it really dives into the connection between language and brain development.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary#Re...
I would say the motives of those who talk about historical wrong X in the past while obstructing discssion of X happening today are also not pure. Everyone should evaluate themselves. That’s why I am not backing down and just agreeing. I find “calling whataboutism” to be disingenuous cover for double standards (speaking in general, not about anyone in particular).

I am happy to talk about things if the intention is genuine. The people who care about historical wrong X seem to put up pedantic walls as soon as they are asked to care about X much closer and much more pressing to us. “Make another topic on HN and get it upvoted and maybe I will talk about slavery of Black people that has been happening in regions where it’s not as cool to critique at the moment.” Doesn’t seem to fit on a site where comments to “I invented a decentralized permissionless movie streaming platform” is “your site is green bleh” or some other thing. But talking about Black people being enslaved today is “diverting attention” from an article about Black people being enslaved by the country of which I am a citizen. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/modern...

It is a form of soft bigotry to me, if analyzed without the filter. A light form of collective insanity. And it doesn’t have to do with slavery in particular but pick any X issue.
I'd venture to say that this is just the start of the coming race wars. As the American demographic increasingly turns brown, there could be significant social upheaval versus the "status quo."
Hundreds of nuclear blast videos show explosions in the ocean and Nevada desert
That's an awesome idea. Will do!
Scott Pruitt resigns from EPA
So does Wahlburger.
Very good! Businesses always say they focus on the customer but part of that is also to allow the customer to get rid of them. I still remember the impossibility of cancelling AOL. I had to do chargebacks on my amex for a few months until they got the message.
Is this something you could know for any university? I imagine most private ones anyway would be pretty secretive about how many positions they reserve for so-called "legacy" students.
What dataflow system/language did you use to compare?
Because `echo test` is not a compound command.

Informally, a compound command is a list of commands (`( ... )` or `{
... }`) or a looping or conditional construct. See [1] for a precise
definition.

[1]: https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashref.html#Compound-...
>API+messaging is a spam nightmare.

Not really if done right. Just let the human message first.
"By working with the police department in Chandler, AZ, for example, Waymo has been able to train its cars to yield, pull over, or stop when it hears or sees sirens." [1]

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/10/15/16472896/alphabet-waymo-se...
> Contrast this "trade secret" to a chat with an Oxford don, and you'll find the don is quite straightforward in admitting they are fallible

Most will admit it's subjective as well (Cambridge). I've had at least two Directors of Studies tell me that half of the point of the interview is finding someone they want to teach/work with.
Hybrid embryos raise hope of resurrecting northern white rhino–what’s the point?
probably 3rd party service
It's a poem.

Edit: It's a mediocre poem.
Both of your questions are answered in the article.
Animals require much more feed in than you get usable meat out. Meat production increases the amount of plants you need to farm so even though plant agriculture is bad for the environment generally the best way to actually reduce it is to eat less meat.
If you're willing to dilute pork you can also use a much more flavorful and fatty cut than you would otherwise.
Is this comment supposed to sound like it comes from the anti-vax that lives in my head?
And Youtube too?
I've never seen a female welder, mechanic, miner, or construction worker in my life.
Yes! I have seen this a lot in the US. Some overweight guy/gal will proclaim "I need some protein right now" (no idea on what this determination is based on) or ask me (vegetarian) "where do you get your protein?".
Turns out that it is - it's amazingly flexible and pretty much anything out there will be able to render it. There's practically no other formats that can claim that.
> the coming race wars

Well, that's not something I'm used to hearing, besides from people like Richard Spencer or other white nationalists. Care to elaborate on why you think race wars are imminent? Somehow I don't see them happening over Harvard admissions...
When will we have self-driving cars?

When we can get rid of recycle bins, because we've finally figured out how to get our robots to sort our trash for us!
You subscribe online - you can cancel online. Now replace "online" with any other way you can make a contract.
As pointed out in other comments, there are multiple large cities within a 300 mile radius. Even if there weren't, saying there is "nothing" there dismisses the real lives and businesses that are there.
Maybe in the right subsections. But 10 days for the first 2-3 years is very common and many companies argue they need consistency across staff.. then others offer you more or infinite vacation then give you a manager from hell with absurd deadlines to make sure you don't take any.

It's much nicer to live in a country with clear employment laws. (Particularly since not everyone around you will work in tech.)
Cannot tell if this is a parody of some kind
To be honest, I'm holding out for clean meat, eating insects just seems unnecessary to me, especially because of welfare considerations—insects potentially have the capacity to feel pain and you have to kill a significant amount of insects just to make a small amount of food.

"Considerable empirical evidence supports the assertion that insects feel pain and are conscious of their sensations. In so far as their pain matters to them, they have an interest in not being pained and their lives are worsened by pain. Furthermore, as conscious beings, insects have future (even if immediate) plans with regard to their own lives, and the death of insects frustrates these plans. In that sentience appears to be an ethically sound, scientifically viable basis for granting moral status and in consideration of previous arguments which establish a reasonable expectation of consciousness and pain in insects, I propose the following, minimum ethic: We ought to refrain from actions which may be reasonably expected to kill or cause nontrivial pain in insects when avoiding these actions has no, or only trivial, costs to our own welfare."
— Jeffery A. Lockwood

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
I've been developing 3 years with JS almost exclusively. The best book out there to start is 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja 2nd Edition' by John Resig and Bear Bibeault.

I'd recommend you grasp the fundamental concepts of vanilla JS before jumping between React, Vue or Angular.

Vue is a complete framework, great documentation and I'd prefer it over React since is less verbose, not a big fan of JSX (the internal language to write components of React) and I'd consider it less intuitive than Vue.
You can get similar salaries in other Tier 1 cities like Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf or Berlin. Of course its different in small cities (except Walldorf or Wolfsburg), but you also have lower expenses. Its not as centralized as UK.
Without the perception of meritocracy, I think the brand does slip significantly and Harvard has created a bigger problem for itself.

As soon as you formally acknowledge that you're letting some people in due to legacy or lottery, the value of the reputation diminishes because any given person may have been accepted on lottery. People know who's legacy and who's not, but the university can't acknowledge it publicly for that reason.
Comcast and Verizon will be upset
It already felt 1990ish back then, a "me too" moment because of Java. At least it was not tied to a PL but they couldn't refrain from inventing yet another one anyway.
I feel like this apparently general inability to string together cogent thoughts, or identify incredibly-clear connections even when laid out pretty clearly, goes a long way toward explaining the context for the very issues discussed in the article.

Mr. Rogers is a hero who directly addressed exactly the issues facing us today, and people are figuratively sticking their fingers in their ears and refusing to listen.
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Smart TV's are Dumb IoT's. I have found they lack proper implementations of DNS resolvers. They do not obey TTL's and will aggressively retry connections. On the plus side, some of them don't check ssl certs, so you can snoop on the data they gather. [0] You can use tc netem to rate limit the TV and add a lot of packet loss and reordering so make mitm easier, as the TV will retry many times.

[0] - https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/cia-mitm-hacking-tool.html
Can we observe this effect among heavy mushroom eaters?
After uploading pdf from farmers I was told to click a link to verify my email address. I clicked the link and was taken to a page that told me to check my email and click the link. :D I refreshed the same page and the instructions updated.
What you're describing here is a specialized skillset that is becoming a necessary tool in order to push forward the frontiers of science and academia, but it isn't a fundamental building block of the mind like literacy or even something like philosophy.
That's only because of cultural biases. If women were treated the same as men throughout childhood you'd see equal representation.
Yeah it has nothing to do with the fact that we're built differently both mentally and physically. Kindly stop concern-trolling.
Businesses will likely comply to presert access to California customer business. They will build web frontends for proper account management (cancellation). And they will go out of their way to disable those frontends for non-CA customers, because they crave the money they are stealing.
Non-human chitinases would simply be added as a processing step. This might be as simple as canning the grubs in tomato sauce, or serving them with avocado.

People do eat mushrooms and shellfish, after all.

Larger insects can have their exoskeletons removed or partially removed, and those can be turned into chitosan, just like the shells from peeled shrimp.
Wish we had news on the Pebble Bed stuff.
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>Visit justicedemocrats.com for details on how to vote this November.

Keep this US-biased political crap out of articles in general, but even more so on articles about European policy.
I would support laws that said, in effect, you can't compete on safety. Meaning, if one self-driving car[1] company comes up with the software equivalent of the seatbelt or the airbag I think they should not get exclusive right to implement it. They should have to share that with the other companies. I don't see how doing otherwise wouldn't put safety above profit.

So how do you compete? I don't know. Along other dimensions, I guess.

There is another aspect of this that I want to bring up: auto-autos should share data with each other and with the surrounding traffic infrastructure in real-time, for safety and for dynamic traffic-shaping. They should be able to cooperatively track pedestrians and non-automated vehicles. The cars and the roads and the signals and something like Waze should all be integrated and cooperating for maximum safety and efficient throughput with low latency. And they should all share experience (training data) of normal and exceptional events across the whole fleet (regardless of manufacturer.) Optimizing across the whole thing will be, uh, optimal. From this POV, non-cooperative behavior (due to the profit motive or just people being people) by any single actor will be seen as a bad-faith move and the network can be expected to route around it one way or another.

[1] Please, let's call them "auto-autos".
Why can't they just have normal cars for sale that also drive themselves to start with? Like I have a car and recline and read a book on a commute most of the time. If snow gets crazy or there's very strange construction or a flooded road or a flat tire we go back to manual driving.

That's plausible and incremental. No cleaning problems, no homeless people living in them, no need for remote monitoring, a far simpler liability and insurance situation, and so on.

My assumption is we'll start talking seriously about robotaxis on the day this scenario is practical and battle tested. The idea of starting with taxis seems ludicrous in comparison.
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All we need is that they don't kill more people than average human drivers do per passenger-mile. Assuming ride-sharing we could even let them be a little more deadly than human drivers and still save lives.
It's not walking, it's the realization of why we reproduce and why we die that makes us humans. Most animals are unaware of their own death and will just hunt more for more food in the short term, not knowing they may be killed as they are too tired to return.
Yes, but the framerate is horrendous.
Von Neumann was a frightfully bright guy. He's also why I don't trust the predictive power of a model based on data fitting rather than an actual theory about the underlying mechanism. "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."

I found this book a great read, but people who are emotionally invested in the error that the Church-Turing thesis implies brains are Turing machines will probably not like it.
I don't like the idea of "fake it till you make it." Sorry but that is horrible. Just think a second if everybody starts doing that!

Just for a second, consider a different job, and think what will happen if everyone start doing that. If your doctor does that, a truck driver does that, if an engineer does that when building a bridge.

I'd say, you should be honest and direct. Just tell your employer/manager: I don't know that, and I need x amount of time/resource to learn it if we need.

You shouldn't fake it. They should know the real cost, the actual capacity. Either they will support you to learn it as part of your job, or they know that it works better if they think about alternative solution/design base on actual capacity/resource.

Nobody can blame you for not knowing something as long as you are willing to learn and they are willing to support you.

"fake it till you make it" also doesn't help you with your stress condition. it will make it even worst as you and your employer don't have real expectations.

Don't build that kind of culture in your job market and society.
I can't begin to describe the number of companies that set me up for auto-renewal without any form of billing or invoice.