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Title should be:

“Police defend Gatwick drone investigation as they refuse to rule out theory that it never existed”
Hi Jonah, just wanted to say congrats on the Tabletop Scribe and also wanted to point out that I designed the first version (the Hackerspace Scanner) with lots of input from the DIY Book Scanner community, who deserve a lot of credit.

If anyone here has interest in building their own, check out diybookscanner.org/archivist for the Archivist model, which I placed in the public domain and documented to the last detail.

Also, the TTScribe is based on our old Hackerspace scanner model, which was just a beta, not the newer and more thoroughly engineered Archivist which also has more permissive licensing, fewer components and more sensible lighting. If you want to get started, that's the place to start.
This is a sloppy hitpiece by someone who probably doesn't cook, is too uppity to be seen in a DG, or both.

DG has saved my bacon on numerous occasions--when I've found myself an ingredient or two short mid-recipe.

They have plenty of dairy, eggs, canned vegetables, dry goods, spices, etc--more than adequate for a nutritious and affordable meal.
I'm a software engineer not in the Bay Area. It's true that my salary is not as high as it could be in the Bay area, but for my location my colleagues and I are highly compensated. The fact is, relative to most of the world, all software engineers are outliers.
I quit using Facebook in early 2014. I asked them to delete my account. Later, in 2017, I logged into Spotify for the first time ever, using the same email I had registered with Facebook in the past. Magically my account was restored and linked to Spotify.

After that I was sort of at a loss, but I did delete my account again this year after seeing a link on a thread here that claimed it would “really” allow me to delete my account. I still don’t trust it.
that's a good point. I didn't realize people thought of oatmeal like that. I really enjoy oatmeal. I put some bananas on it or some pumpkin seeds, or strawberries or a little bit of honey and the whole thing tastes absolutely delicious.
However, those services might have a cost, so if you spam them 10000 faxes, they might hit a limit and get charged more or even block their service.
Year of publication of this paper: 1963, as a result of work done in the Gemmy-nee program.

Apollo 7 (first crewed Apollo mission): 1968

Apollo 11 landing on the moon: 1969

I would suggest that Buzz was being quite sincere in this statement, with some hint of confidence that he actually would participate in the Apollo missions. The Gemini and Apollo programs were expected to be dangerous. There was no guarantee that people who participated in Gemini would even be alive for the Moon missions, much less physically capable of participating, much less the best people for the job.
Fasting (or semi-fasting, actually -- I have never done a water fast) is good for my medical condition. My terrible headaches are mostly gone now.
i started pharo a few years ago and finally found a killer app to make it worth the investment for me.

red-lang is on my list to learn for quite some time now, but it probably won't happen until i find a useful application in red that i can use.

same goes for haskell
You can still fill up their inbox and greatly inconvenience them.
I’m really struggling to see the difference between your description of 4th wave feminism, and the author’s more succinct summation. I’m also struggling to see how what seems to be bikeshedding around some fairly innocuous semantics which don’t particularly change the point of the article, leads to your conclusion of the article being an incoherent mess.

The majority of what’s being held up as problematic is very much a matter of approach rather than goals, while you seem to be hung up on goals. Or maybe I’m missing something? He doesn’t seem to be anything other than supportive of fighting for the aims you’re discussing, he’s questioning the degree to which moral posturing online along with crude mobs really serves those goals in the long run. I guess it feels like you e cherrypicked a strange and minimal assortment of content to analyze, and it doesn’t seem like it supports your extremely harsh conclusions.
This was well-articulated, and your example was good. I'm not vegan, but I dislike the vitriolic 'jokes' that many of them are subjected to -- voicing your beliefs is certainly an admirable trait to me.
My sarcasm probably wasn't clear, but I am merely mocking the author's trichotomy.
Yeah! The purple llama.

The skill was probably Animal Lore.

Best MMO ever! Thanks for giving insight into it.
Dollar stores are like fast food franchises. They're cheap and probably unhealthy, but their inventory is highly predictable.
The author mentions dating sites as predecessors to dating apps. Plenty of Fish and OkCupid launched their apps after Grindr. Also, they were basically mobile websites with notifications.[1] The mobile-first, photo-first experience of online dating today seems to have originated with Grindr.

[1] https://www.datingsitesreviews.com/article.php?story=OkCupid...
after trying js+nodejs in 2017 I turned to python+django in 2018 and never looked back. python's libraries on ML/Big-Data are unmatchtable and django is years ahead of the nodejs/express ecosystem in my opinion.
I know this is a sensitive topic, but just for consideration: when I asked my wife this question, she answered, "Almost everyone." She thought that answer was so obvious it might be trying to lead people to that answer.

If you read the question with an open mind, I think any bias it has is up for debate.
Sorry, I confused Keras with Kaggle - holiday brain!
It's this one: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python
Oh, absolutely. The story was about Google, but it's at least as true (and has been true for longer) about Apple.

Similar comments could be made about Tumblr, which has implemented similarly wrong headed policies in a similarly incompetent way, and has also done a ton of damage, although it's less frustrating watching a single site do it. Ultimately Verizon owns Tumblr, and they can ruin it if they like, and the damage will be somewhat limited because it can't really spread beyond Tumblr.

Google and Apple have vastly more power over vastly more of our digital lives.

As a libertarian, I reflexively resist suggestions of regulation, but actions like this (or on a somewhat different vein, Facebook's) make that position harder and harder to support. It's hard to overstate the power that running the dominant Android app store gives Google, and thus the responsibility they have to use that power wisely.

Unfortunately, even if we wanted to try the regulation option, the current political climate makes that a non-starter; the neo-Victorian sexual panic is firmly entrenched in Congress (see, eg, SESTA/FOSTA). We're screwed.
You are free to your opinion. I am of the opinion that there are enough IT professionals out there who are undercompensated and/or treated poorly that unionization isn’t only feasible, but a superior option for those workers.

Do you work more than 40 hours a week consistently as a salaried employee and not compensated for that time? Wage theft. Are you on call and not compensated for being on call or when you have to respond outside of business hours? Wage theft.

Software engineers are not the only category of IT worker. You believing you’re highly compensated does not mean others are, and does not negate their right to seek a more equitable labor arrangement. Feel free to stand aside while others fight for better working conditions for themselves and the majority of their peers.

> The fact is, relative to most of the world, all software engineers are outliers.

(Relative to most of the world, developed country workers are highly compensated; that is no excuse for allowing worker rights to be clawed backwards, unless you’re prepared to attempt to live in the first world on a third world income)
I like working in Scala quite a bit, but always wince at the "instead of using threading primitives consider this 10x more exotic immutable approach" lead-in. Does anyone here really work that way?
Disappointed that I wasn't logged out of Hacker News when visiting the site... Where is the love Annoying Site?
I deleted it in 2016.
Very refreshing to see people posting this plain simple reality. Not only is there plenty of cheap healthy food, if people wanted more of it—BAM—capitalism would be there in two shakes of a lamb’s tail to sell them whatever they want.
I mainly program in low-level imperative languages (mostly C/C++), and occasionally dabbled in some functional languages (like Ocaml and Elm). But I don’t really understand why you would need such a convoluted system to get/mutate some values in a data structure in Scala. Doesn’t Scala allow mutability throughout its language already (unlike Haskell)?
Has anyone read any good analysis about Title I of HR4174 requiring evidence when making public policy? Skimming the bill, I don't have a clue what the implications are other than requiring agencies to make some reports. It sounds like a good thing on the surface, but it has been a talking point of the Trump administration, and put into practice in a rather Orwellian fashion.

Basically, the implied subtext is that regulators should not put any restrictions on industry unless the evidence is completely unambiguously in favor of the regulation. However, science is never 100% certain even at its best. And you can always drag up some study that contradicts the strong consensus of the field, whether by fluke or intentional design of the study. In other words "evidence based policymaking" has been euphemism for "must give alternative facts equal weight".
Back before this was true we were receiving fax spam advertising by the ton.
Eventually I cellotaped several together, dialed their number and when the fax started sending, cellopated the end of the fax to the beginning of it, making a literal loop. I guessed (correctly) that it was an office, and faxed it in the early evening and it ran all night. I received an angry hand written fax from them the next day then nothing more.
It isn't a matter of investing it in something else. There was never actually any surplus to begin with. If the government had done anything other than lend it to itself, they wouldn't have had that money to fund the programs they voted for. Then they would either have had to pay the full amount from additional taxes or borrow the money and pay interest, which over that time period was a >6% rate and would have been even higher if that amount of debt had actually been issued into the bond market. I leave it as an exercise to the reader to calculate what percentage of the "trust fund" total would have had to be paid in interest at those rates over half a century if they had actually paid it. Spoiler alert, it's most of the total.

The net inter-generational transfer is actually substantially more than that, because the true measure of the inter-generational transfer is the debt itself, which exceeds even what's held by social security and medicare. That is what they spent without paying for and what their kids inherit.

If they hadn't spent more than they paid there wouldn't be trillions in US government bonds for the "trust fund" to hold. That's the only way to have actually paid for it -- have held a net surplus of that amount, so you pass on net assets rather than net debt. And that isn't what happened.
Thanks! This helps me understand a bit better. So away from binctr, which should just be considered a reference, a rootless system isn’t just about being able to run i.e. execute a container, but also go into and modify, like using the containers package manager and fiddling about. Without needing root access to do so (due to the way these tools like yum are built to work). But also be able to use systems like Docker that typically require sudo/root for nearly everything to not need it.

For us, one of Singularity’s primary advantages is the host filesystem integration capabilities.

Does a rootless container system have any potential drawbacks when dealing with host filesystem integrations and user permissions? Or should this be considered up to the implementer’s discretion and a separate issue?

This may be thinking too much (but probably due to lack of deeper understanding) but an event I see playing out is a user on the cluster installing a rootless container system, building their own containers, runtime mounting host directories they shouldn't be that typically require root access and then modifying them. Is this a possible situation?

I often end up getting caught up in tooling and missing the bigger picture/goal, so apologies for the long back and forth :)
I fail to see how the quoted portion of my comment assumes mathematical realism. I could see how other parts of my comment might suggest I'm assuming MR. Assuming you meant to reference the portions where I talk about how the results of mathematics tells us something about the world, modal structural realism[1] is an underappreciated interpretation of mathematics.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/#M...
Unionization doesn't work well in high tech because traditionally the industry has changed so fast that a union would torpedo any company that fully embraced them. I think the tech industry also has among the most relaxed, easy going environments with some of the best perks.
The mean LD50 of caffeine and nicotine in humans are 150-200 and 6.5-13 mg/kg, respectively.
It might still be SQLite in that case. The largest data management systems are proprietary (i.e. Google's ever-evolving data layer)
Oh great. Now we can make The Ring scene come alive. Merry Christmas.
It's probably this. When I worked in insurance, as things got backed up, people would begin refaxing the same claim because they didn't have their check yet. So we ended up with multiple copies of many claims in our electronic queue system.

It was about that point where the company would start asking people to work overtime to try to get the backlog under control. People would fax and refax, then call and we would get an internal message from the call center asking us to prioritize this claim, etc. The behinder we got, the behinder we got because now we were having to look through multiple copies of the same file only to determine they were all duplicates and so forth.

Even without paper copies of faxes, faxing someone a ton of stuff over and over creates problems on the receiving end.
Nope, I never had an account.
Just wait 21 years until you're born, then the fun starts!
It goes both ways, too. If you have people in your life who are more than surface relationships then they and you will both make the effort to maintain it—Facebook isn’t going to enhance that to any real degree. The moment it becomes more than just a tool is the moment I’m OUT.
The equator is a worthless arbitrary illusion of a "win". South Africa is going through some tough times, but has potential to regain its stature, don't limit yourself to random geographic phenomena, you can easily compete on the world stage.
In my experience the side effects of caffeine withdrawal are much much worse than for nicotine (cigarettes). Both last a week or two.
The River Shopping Center Backlash
The River Shopping Center at Rancho Mirage, California is full of rude people who will mock you for no reason. One time, a boy in a red shirt threatened a person for no reason and he is with a woman wearing a lavender shirt.
Postmodernists had it right. It’s all socially constructed. Where the modern left gets it wrong is that they’ve destroyed the foundations of the house that we lived in without building a new one. Truly, black and white (and yellow, ugh) don’t describe the world so much anymore. We’re already in a post-racial society, and so few people realize it. The new language to describe our 21st century America will be lords (the .01%) and peasants (not pejoratively either, peasants historically enjoyed nice things in life).

We’re for sure in a multi-ethnic society. There’s no question about this. But when a ‘black’ man is elected to the highest office, when ‘black’ people continue to hold institutional power, both in government and universities, the actual practice of racism becomes hard to prove. It becomes ethnocentrism.

The irony of this fact is how so many ‘whites’ (mostly uneducated) know it to be true, and so many ‘blacks’ refuse to believe it, instead calling on the European-American burgousie to feel guilt and dole out pity. There’s this belief that to be ‘black’ means to be cursed. Fuck that, African-Americans have reason to be proud of their accomplishments in this country.

If anything, white guilt is racism. You can’t look someone in the eye when you’re looking down on them.
No we lose fking everything. I just spent an evening to an electrician in his second year, excited the electrical union his giving him 8 whole days of vacation. His pay increases are on a fixed scale. And because senior members of the union are unemployed if he loses his job, those guys get hired first. And if you're unemployed and you take a non union sideproject you're moved to the back of the bus. Run far far away from unionization.
Thanks. Interesting to know...
Salaries have been stagnating because companies refuse to raise the salaries, along with ever increasing inflation. Your 100k job was worth less than a dollar back in 1980, due to inflation.

Programmers should be making closer to 200-300k per year; but then everyone else would be making 30 or 40 dollars an hour minimum wage.

Supply and demand aren’t well matched, considering the job posting out there. But there’s a lot going on influencing all of this
I apologize for not providing data to back this up, but I recall reading about how the space shuttle project was derailed by political meddling. Certainly before faulting NASA too quickly, we should probably have some insight into exactly what happened.
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I heard a story where ad company sued the adblocker app. So I thought it is very risky to run adblocking.

What are your thoughts on this?
"Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weaknesses. Avoid being one of the mob who indulges in such pastimes. Your life is too short and you have important things to do. Be discriminating about what images and ideas you permit into your mind. If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest. It is the easiest thing in the world to slide imperceptibly into vulgarity. But there's no need for that to happen if you determine not to waste your time and attention on mindless pap."

-Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
My old boss who had some spooky jobs in the past (NSA, CIA) gave me a copy of a public paper from a researcher at one of those places. I noticed a page was missing from the body of the text. We were supposed to read parts of this paper to understand how to implement something but it felt like my boss was surprised I had noticed, as if he didn’t expect us to read fully. When I asked about the missing page he gave me a knowing smile and said “it’s not available” and contorted his mouth into an exaggerated mouth-clamped-shut position, all the time holding my eye for several seconds and smiling this very final “that’s all folks” look. I think sometime pages just go missing. And we may never know why.
I've been aware of this kind of thing before, but never really looked into it. This is pretty interesting, and the Rust docs are pretty good at stepping through it. Rust specifically can have difficulty with cyclic data, and it seems this could help with that, though it's bypassing the lifetime analysis of the type system.

Two thoughts of the top of my head (I haven't yet read any of the literature):

1) how is/could rust's lifetime analysis be applied to these ideas productively.

2) I wonder if you could map some predefined _names_, or something inside the system to physical caches or hardware structures.
Python 3. After tinkering with a pretty important python script last year, I built a full blown web app using Bottle. Now it's a core tool that my team uses to do the core functions of the their job and I'm taking feature requests.

I've also been tinkering with C#/.net core and TypeScript at work as I try to align myself closer with the tech that the core engineering teams are using.

The other thing this year that I finally cracked was Swift. I don't know why, but until just recently I had really struggled with wrapping my head around it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I deleted mine in late 2017
:)
I started blogging
Learned about embedded systems
Built some cli tools and got better at python.
Taught a lot of people how to program and made a healthy impact
By the way
here’s my blog
www.muhammadraza.me
> I couldn't block them because they were coming from the same email that sends my bill.

If you hadn't fixed it already I would recommend seeing if there is anything in the subject or body that you can use to filter the emails with.
> No one is claiming that vaping causes cancer

"To evaluate possible long-term effects of vaping, the team assessed DNA damage in the cells of the volunteers' mouths."

"Dator and Balbo identified three DNA-damaging compounds, formaldehyde, acrolein and methylglyoxal, whose levels increased in the saliva after vaping."

"Compared with people who don't vape, four of the five e-cigarette users showed increased DNA damage related to acrolein exposure."

"E-cigarettes can damage DNA"
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-e-cigarettes-dna.html
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> I just couldn't make any inferences when the consequences are half an hour away,

If you play chess fast it does not take half an hour to see the results of a bad decision. In a few turns you would see things fall apart after a bad move.
It's incredible. The last company I worked for before going it alone (I was the front-end engineer and moved away from ML based business models) was trying to automate statistical analysis. I came from an academic background in economics and I tried to propose modelling to them in simple terms and they jumped to, "it sounds like you're talking about forecasting, let's go with that." And they started trying to implement python models from academic papers with highly limited training data and my reaction was generally, WTF?! You can't even start to forecast without a reliable base model. But they went ahead trying to sell stuff like churn prediction to companies with 0 understanding of how these models work at the basest levels.

And yeah, Google started to throw their hat in the game with Analytics 360 and an enormously larger training base. Amazon's another major player.

Weirdly enough though, people do still blindly pay my previous employers to figure stuff out because easy answers are always actionable, even if they're wrong. It's just crazy because the CEO explained to me that lying about the service to potential customers and investors was necessary because "Faking it til you make it" was a sound business principle in his mind like 1980's Michael J Fox was his primary sources of business info.

Long story short, don't waste your time with these little companies purporting ML holy grails. They're probably just lying to you, whether intentionally or not. ML is a game for the big boys with access to market level aggregates. The models that last company came up with were wildly inaccurate.
Huh, at that point it'd probably make more sense to formally verify it. For sel4 last time I checked the ratio was 25/1 proof code/verified code.
I spent a lot of time learning about stack unwinding, debug information, and profiling on common operating systems. I’m writing down some of it: http://nikhilism.com/post/2018/sampling-profiler-internals-i...