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In the process of moving to renewable energy, The Netherlands has banned natural gas connections to new houses starting 1 July 2018. This is even though the country has one of the largest gas fields in the world [1]. Electric (induction) cooktops and district heating are very good alternatives to using gas (and safer, even though the gas infrastructure is very good).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen_gas_field
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The deal concerned only the domain name.

I think it was about 2 weeks. We communicated via email and once we agreed on a price we used Escrow.com for the transaction.

The way it works is that the buyer (me) wires the money to Escrow. Once they have confirmed they received the money, the seller transfers the domain to the buyer (me) and once I confirm I have received the domain Escrow releases the funds to the seller.

It's a pretty safe way of doing business. I believe Escrow also verifies the identity of all parties involved.
They might use a computer with possibly AI to handle it. So the procedure must involve something like a CAPTCHA or human-human-interaction to be effective.
If you haven't yet, you may enjoy reading "Concepts, Techniques, Models of Computer Programming" [1].
The reason is that it is chock-full of interesting ideas:

- kernel language, which is not a practical language, but contains all the concepts for building one of a given model

- growing said kernel language one concept at a time, when its expressiveness is stretched

- the case for multi paradigm languages, with a real example throughout the book (Oz)

- and I mean multiparadigm (although the author dislikes this word): first declarative, then with concurrency, then with ports, then with explicit state, then object oriented with and without concurrency (which in fact isn't really an extension of the kernel language), then relational ... all being simple but very careful extensions to that kernel language

- the case for each concept, which results in an extension to the language, is very carefully explained and many alternatives are considered, and much justification is given to why it would improve the language; if you are considering designing your own language, you could do worse than learning from the author's carefully described approach

- each concept results in an addition to the grammar, the semantics of which are described in detail; they are also described formally in an appendix

- whenever a new programming model is described (which is basically a set of concepts), an archetypal example is discussed: Haskell (concurrent declarative), Erlang (message passing), Java (concurrent OO), Prolog (relational)

- techniques for programming with each concept are introduced

- each chapter has exercises at the end, several of which consist of doing your own extensions to the language; some of these are research level

- as an example of how deep but accessible this book is, check the "Principal programming paradigms" poster [pdf] [2]

- the extensive bibliography at the end is fantastic

And since I believe that it hasn't been mentioned in the comments and in case you don't know yet, check out "Lambda the Ultimate", "the programming languages weblog" [3]

[1] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

[2] https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng108.pdf

[3] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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Lying always being unethical is actually a relatively standard idea in classical ethical theories e.g. Summa Theologica, Question 110, Article 3. However, the statement that the class involves "no coding" could be considered truthful in the social context or as part of a use of mental reservation.
>Also I want to point out that rendering and performance of web UIs could be good on phone hardware, the native implementations just have to want that to be the case.

So that raises the question why Google, the king of the web, wouldn't want it.
FWIW, I already asked similar stuff ("What is the movie where...?", "what is the book where...?") on stackexchange and I could get the answer relatively quickly.
> but we're also the only species that might be capable of refraining from these natural urges.

We might be able to but there is relatively little evidence of that actually being the case. Theoretically we are perfectly cable of reasoning over 100's of years of time but in practice our life-span is the only thing that we seem to care about.
Article says detained, not arrested.
I don't agree with your comment. The updates Apple has released have made iPhone 6 and 6S unusable. Everyone is complaining about them, they transformed a perfect phone into something that makes you want to upgrade to a new phone.
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Or a very pretty one.
Another way is to simply use existing methods applied to a new gene/molecule. So in principle you're just doing the work of a laboratory technician, but you get to publish a scientific article.
My stepsister and her husband are on benefits in order to make ends meet because teaching special ed in America, by the signal of pay, isn't valued enough for livable recompensation.
793 requires "intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation", but 795 and 797 could potentially apply. Thank you.
Some agencies issuing grants have started only allowing mentioning n (e.g. n=10) important publications in grant applications. I think this is a good temporary workaround for some of the bad incentives in the current system.

You will give a negative impression if:

+ you can not find 10 high-quality articles in your body of work

+ you are not the first author on any of the 10 articles

+ influential work is more positively rewarded than with the h-index
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Headline is a bit misleading - but nonetheless the crypto-route has been a huge destruction of capital.

My biggest issue with the article: You cannot just compare 2008's route of one stock index with some arbitrary Crypto-Index. It's an unfair comparison.

I've did this just weeks ago myself: 2008's loss in S&P500 market-cap vs. this years loss in market-cap of the 5 leading crypto-curriencies. Which was about a third (Yes, it is just an approximation - it lacks the 2008's loss of market-cap in assets around the world, but so does it exclude ICOs and crypto-derivatives).

What makes such a comparison interesting though: The crypto-route was huge nonetheless, but it was more or less isolated. Which maybe was a good thing. If we were to believe in cyclical markets, with bubble-bursts being a recurring integral part, then maybe crypto was a "booby-trap" for spoofing speculation into it and save the rest of the financial markets this time?
Totally. Sometimes, if one is really interested in the material and has time, it can be enjoyable to plough through the human interest fluff to get to the meat, but the majority of the time it just seems like a pretentious annoyance.

Same deal with most popular science on TV - who has the time or energy to sit through an hour of tortuously drawn-out explanations interspersed with tangentially relevant video sequences, just to harvest the at most 5 mins of actually interesting fact?
SF reinvented yet another wheel in worst possible way.

Stuff was sold this way for centuries. Take a fruit or a newspaper, leave coins in a jar, no cashier needed.
I'm guessing this is just a stop gap solution to test the waters while they try to find something better. Hopefully they're smart enough link your card to your phone number after the first transaction.
They probably need to talk to Apple regarding their 5 star review on iOS.
> the main driving social-differentiator signals emphasize appearance and attitude

Indeed, pushed hard by the advertising industry etc. with the idea that we are defined only by the products we consume.

I see cool as similar to the phenomenon of less well off people spending money on designer labels, i.e. reaction to a position of relative social inferiority. Chavs buy Burberry, whereas Prince Charles patches holes in clothes that he's had for decades.
Leaving permanently doesn't solve the underpayment problem. Striking and collective bargaining often does. It sucks but it's vital.
Swiss newspaper article also says (Google-translated):

Why the two were brought back to Russia and not
prosecuted in the Netherlands or transferred to
Switzerland, neither the Dutch military intelligence
nor other requested authorities wanted to explain.

It is also unknown what they did in the Netherlands.
I wasn't really too worried about picking apart the approach. If order mattered, you'd be looking at other approaches anyway.

Mainly just calling out a gotcha where you might quietly miss out on scheduled events with no warning.

For example:

1. Object written to successfully to bucket.

2. `s3:ObjectCreated:Put` is _never_ delivered.

The possibility of duplicate events are warned about a lot in the AWS ecosystem, and this sets up an expectation of "at-least-once" delivery.
Bait click heading.

Nationwide, the estimated average public-school teacher’s salary is now $58,950.
Not a bad salary I would say, and the salary is 20% lower than similar college degree which is not to bad considering one have more time off than other jobs (summer vacation etc).

Would be more interesting if there was a lack of people wanting to work as teachers but the article didn't say anything about that.
I work in the LHC. I can confirm dev-ops, the very many kinds of engineers, people writing analytic software, storage systems and a long long etc. do NOT get referenced in physics publications.

Only physicists (but then there are hundreds of them)
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Can't even fathom how many MSc educated people in the sciences would never, ever consider teaching due that laughable pay (even worse when converted to hourly) when compared even to the lowest-paying industry jobs. That's not how you educate a society for the 22nd century.

To catch up with what is common in Western Europe, the pay needs to at least double to 80k USD and more for teachers of upper secondary classes.
Call me out of touch if you like, but why would you buy a burner phone at a price point that's higher than what many Android users are willing to spend on their main phone for 2 or more years?
The problem is no one carries around coins any more.
Still too lenient as it implies there was some thinking involved.
You would still not know. Maybe there is a branch of physics that you're simply biologically not equipped to even perceive, comprehend or understand in the slightest. Maybe not. The point is that you can't know. Not too long back, people thought gravity as entirely newtonian and couldn't imagine that gravity could behave like waves. Or that particles can exist as both particle and wave.

IMO the limit of knowledge is simply the limit of information you can cram into a region of space without it collapsing into a blackhole because of that.
And you are being very much presumptuous. Clearly, you also have very partial views on the topic.
Contactless payment...
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Sorry, I must have misremembered and thought they said "no coding" instead of "no programming". But people would probably call such a usage a lie if it is intended to mislead even if strictly speaking it isn't.
I guess this is what happen when a country spends ~8 times more in its military than in educating its people. ($574bn vs $68bn).

Edit: as noted by a comment bellow, this is only the budget at the Federal Level
It depends on what training do you do and your personal recovery capabilities. You can do 7 days a week low intensity (in sense of resistance, not necessary cadence) cardio, no problem, but I don't know anyone who do can do high intensity weight training (as Mike Mentzer's and Arthur Jones defined it) that often and for that long.
"Stranger in a Strange Land"by Robert A. Heinlein.

It's a science fiction book, but it made me question everything, made me change my way of thinking towards a lot of concepts, and integrate those new concepts it in my life. I can definitely say it changed my life.
I think the 2nd transaction they just confirm that you want to used the card on file, essentially linking your phone number to the card for transactions on their products.

They also redirect to web for CC entry the first time, I think they're using stripe to store it or equivalent. It's essentially sms-based interface.

(from https://dirtylemon.com/ordering)
There's another source (I've seen'em do it!). Some computer scientists rehash their papers constantly so almost the same paper gets published in a variety of magazines.
Great! I didn't know about that.
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No but they carry contactless cards and nfc enabled phones. Tapping a card reader is far more convenient than both cash and the system outlined in the article.
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it's not good for women who have smaller hands.
Likely you probably wouldn't even make it to the 'restaurant'!
They weren't spies, they were tourists. We get them all the time here in the UK.
As a random internet user, I would say: applying the points of the article to your website...

Best applied positive points (others apply too, but there's no point in making a list with things you already know about):

2. Make the website about the customer, not you

11. Don't write meaningless B.S. and banalities

12. Make your call to action visible

26. Make your stuff legible

31. Leverage Social Proof: This comes with a caveat - the globe with '5 Million downloads' works fine, but I would find something less '90s.

36. List your features/Benefits using... lists: I would make them more concrete, but there's a good first version already (see discussion at the end regarding this)

48. Offer a quick demo (see discussion at the end)

Points that could be improved:

3. Make Your Value Proposition Crystal Clear: "We build apps for all kinds of communities" raises more questions that answers (what apps? what's a community in this context?)

5. Don't use buzzwords: "Empowering", "Uniting" doesn't tell much

9. Make sure your copy passes the "so what" test

15. Anticipate and answer all objections

23. Don't just make statements, show value: Note that this is buried in your presentation. Being a PDF, there's 0 chance I would have read that on my phone.

25. Don't hide content people want to see: On mobile, reading the "meatier" part of the content requires me to click on vague terms such as "Engagement", one by one. I would suggest either making the titles clearer, or not auto-hide by default.

​28. Explain why I should buy your product and 34. Explain how your product works: I did not watch the video, because I usually skip them. As a result, I had no idea what your product actually did until I read the presentation. Now, maybe the people who need to manage communities actually do, I couldn't tell since I don't have B.A.N.T. here. Just bringing it up

Now, here comes a completely separated set of observations. First, you might consider unifying your visual design: the website, the presentation, and the "let's work together" section all have different visual designs.

Your "Let's work together" page, however, raises lots of questions - not because it's bad, but actually because it's almost better - clear example of what the app does, link to request demo, e-mail contact... (the stock footage needs work, though). I find myself confused as to how to better unify all of these points into one.

Finally, I've seen the video. I would suggest that you split the video in sections: "What the app does", "How we handle privacy", "Qbix in our office: a case study", and so on. I wouldn't put the private key exchange and how you use iframes in an introductory video. And as a final small detail, I like the narrator's voice, but he should consider a better microphone (or renting a recording booth for an hour).
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Launch: Freq – Weird and Wonderful Video Challenges
Super excited to shout from the rooftops that our app Freq is live!

=> https://get.freq.ee

Freq is for weird and wonderful video challenges like “How fast can you say the alphabet?” or “Frankenstein dance moves”.

We want Freq to be a place to to let your hair down and be silly, extraordinary, and adventurous.

But we're super early && you know hard it is to launch! First we need to reach our pioneers!

Would love to get your feedback hackers ...
oops wrong link

Here's the right one:

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/09/16/the-truth...
The military is, for many, vocational training, even though you may disagree with its outcomes (I certainly do).
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If you assume they work only 8 months of the year due to holidays, pro-rata that would be $88,425.
The usual development of things when government manages something. It becomes (at the same time) 1) very expensive and/or low quality for the consumer 2) Very bad for the professionals who provide it. The same thing happens over and over in every country that adopts socialism in any form (the promise that the government is the best provider of something, often "for free").
> We need more transparency from companies

Yes. Best way to achieve it is to get Linux running on smartphones, finally, so we can manage our own updates.

(By the way, I'm not looking forward to an era of selfdriving cars which are updated remotely behind the back of the user.)
>a very beautiful harmonious life structure called the planet earth

Harmonious ? There have been multiple extinction events in the history, things go out of balance all the time.
> Your data is collected but is used purely to improve the iPhone. Your data is intentionally obfuscated for privacy.

As per Apple.

I see no reason to trust Apple any more I trust Google. Especially in the context of Snowden's disclosures of tech giants collusion under the Prism program. What they say is only remotely related to what they actually do.
I was not referring to docker-machine here, I'm not sure why you think I was referring to it (I didn't even mention it). I was talking about people who do `dockerd -H tcp://:8080` and ignore the warning that tells them this is insecure. This is not a strawman, there were blog posts in the past few months where they mentioned in passing that their firewall was misconfigured and allowed unauthenticated access to their Docker hosts[1].

I didn't mention TLS certificates with -H tcp:// because it wasn't really related to the main point I was making -- yes you can configure it to be secure but again security is not the default. I felt so strongly about this I pushed for having a required flag to allow insecure TCP access[2]. I am more than aware this can be done safely, it just isn't done safely often enough that you see this type of misconfiguration in blog posts.

[1]: https://kromtech.com/blog/security-center/cryptojacking-inva...
[2]: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/37299
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That lovely harmonious structure where lions kill cubs because they want to impregnate the mother, where bugs literally stab-rape others to procreate and where animals regularly die of hunger because the predator-prey cycle is at a predator low?

It seems great if you're only looking at the nice parts.
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EM is quite disappointingly weak for anything except point to point communications. If you really wanted to broadcast a message, it'd be far better to use something like von-neumann probes.
Yeah, BS PC knee-jerking.

Blacklist doesn't have anything to do with people of dark skin or political correctness.

The english origin of the term goes back centuries and has nothing to do with blacks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_te...

And the same term exists in other languages as well (who, again, had nothing to do with blacks, racism, or slavery).
> You can avoid all of this by using an iPhone.

Not really. https://www.apple.com/lae/iphone-battery-and-performance/

> Apple's business model does not involve ad revenue or data collection.

I fail to see how ad revenue and data collection has anything to do with battery saving mode.
Flutter original team started with former Chrome engineers and one of the first design decisions was to drop the Web UI concepts.

If I am not mistaken it was Timothy Jordan that explained it on an interview.

So Google, the company pushing Web UIs, including PWAs in collaboration with Microsoft, still thinks they aren't worthwhile to be the default stack on their devices.

Apple and Microsoft also have UI stacks where JavaScript has first class support (TVML and UWP) and like Flutter, completely dropped the DOM.
Thanks, it gets clearer. As a matter of fact I'm both knowledgeable in building things in Python and Go, Node and PHP too. And others. But, admittedly, for 'big' things I tend to lean on Go nowadays (edit: mainly because I need to deliver on-premise, OS-aware applications).

It seems like you think there's a "build process" with Go because you're accustomed to python/pyenv (or whatever is your env manager of choice), in which cas you need to known that there's no such thing with Go.

The two following course of actions are the same:
- "apt-get docker; docker pull {project-url}; docker start {project-url}"
- "apt-get golang; git pull {project-url}; go run .go" (the last Go 1.11 will take care of dependencies at build time)

You can't as easily do "apt-get python; git pull {url}; python .py", unless the program is really simple, because there's such questions as "python2 or 3?" or "pyenv, virtualenv or anaconda?", obligatory XKCD here: https://xkcd.com/1987.

But it's totally ok not to bother learning the compilation command of a given project's language and rely on Docker, really I'm ok with that, doing it myself from time to time. My initial point was on app delivery to final users.
>Sam Ruby and Tim Bray have each picked messaging systems as a trend to watch in the future. In particular, they are naming Jabber/XMPP as something to watch.

Yeah, that went well...
Yup. And when fully-inculcated as socially-reinforced virtues, these lies take on a self-fulfilling, self-sustaining quality that makes them seem as unquestionable as gravity. TBH, this is likely why I have no social use for most other Americans because they tend to be tedious and predictable, by virtues of being ill-informed, naïve and brainwashed. As an example, when people talk about how "new" or "updated" something is, they act with unthinking, manufactured biases as if that alone is a primary cause for more inherent value, when they're unwittingly cargo-culting the values of shopping to unrelated areas.
The only problem would be my banking app, which is pretty crucial.
A nice idea if your products are sold with 500% markup.
So... This is good news for bitcoin?
I don't get it either even if one uses Docker. I use jails on FreeBSD but, otherwise, I have the same set up that does the same thing by just configuring what comes with all that so I don't understand the point of this.
Not in the same rate after an advancement of mankind.
Nice but a lot of form over function style design does not make the web a better place necessarily.

Nevertheless, WebGL is still a bit underused and this is a nice showcase. I imagine that together with WASM it will enable a lot of slick experiences when people start doing the things that currently require native applications.

E.g. most games have very slick and responsive UIs. There's no good reason why the web has to be the stuttering laggy mess that that causes your fans to spin up as soon as you scroll.