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> cheap to make, but provocative, YouTube documentaries

That's exactly what I liked from them, but I don't really see that anymore. Motherboard is okay. That's pretty much my contact with Vice.
Thanks for the input! I'll make note of these topics and look for some writers in these areas. I agree, I kind of hit a plateau in my technical skills, but these project based tutorials really helped push me forward again.
The second one doesn't make a lot of sense because you can't have more drug addicts enrolled in highschool than students enrolled in highschool because all drug addicts that are also enrolled in highschool would be students.

Unless them being enrolled, but not attending class because they are drug addicts makes them not students.
"Finally a piece of good news in global politics"

The Americans representing untold numbers of businesses attempts to fairly access Chinese markets without having their IP grabbed and given to a local competitors is much bigger 'good news' than this deal.

Businesses large and small around the world have had to put up with this and never say anything publicly about it.

The trade negotiations between US and China are long, long overdue, and countless respected individuals are backing it. Quite a number of times on FT podcasts I've heard 'I can't say that I'm a Trump supporter, but addressing these issues is welcome' kind of thing. Even the Democrats are essentially supporting Trump on this [1], which is why there's little political fuss about this in daily news.

It looks like some kind of deal will be made, and it will be 'very material' and probably beneficial for both the US and China, but also everyone else.

The EU-Japan deal is good, but they are advanced nations without tons of trade. A big deal between the US/EU and the rest of Asia and also South America would be a really nice thing if it had the right terms.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-elections-trade/democ...
just being a tech company.

thats it.

NYC had Silicon Alley. Utah has Silicon Slopes, London, Seattle etc all harbor "SV-style" companies which mostly are internet services with clients.

Its not a confusing or uncommon term especially because theres a lions share of these cheaply made internet services being created left and right in silicon valley and beyond.
Somewhat more sinister, I think, is that they added a TTL on the Amazon Smile opt-in. Now, you must re-opt-in every 90 (I think) days.

Fair bet that this small change substantially hurts the effectiveness of this charity and drives a whole bunch of money back to Amazon.
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We are looking for quick learners who enjoy working with modern software development tools in the food and manufacturing space.

Knowledge of specific frameworks or libraries is less important than a broad knowledge of software development practices and an ability to learn.

At Kettlebell Kitchen, we're building technology to empower and drive our food manufacturing business. We believe in tried and true business models, like buying raw materials and selling a value-added product. Explosive growth is nice, but not at any cost.

There are a ton of areas, including much of the ordering platform, that need re-thinking.

Must haves:

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Nice to haves:

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2. Bash and vi fu.

3. Mypy and static typing experience in Python.

4. React experience.

5. Django experience.

6. LoopBack experience.

7. Angular experience.

8. Static typing experience in other languages: Java, C++

9. API design

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>It is very, very difficult to combat pseudoscience draped with religious authority.

Luckily, that never happens in the Western world.
As it stands today, AWS' managed kafka is very limited. Single region and no TLS is a non-starter for a lot of places.
There are less high school students in SF, period. There are less children in general. This is due to a large number of variables I don't see being controlled, and a severe lack of source information.

I'm much more worried about the 10%+ dropout rates.
I think Metcheck is the UK equivalent of this. To pick a few random page of turbo-nerdery (if you need a UK postcode to try, the National Museum of Computing is at MK3 6EB):

https://www.metcheck.com/WEATHER/ghx_charts.asp

https://www.metcheck.com/WEATHER/discussion.asp?DiscussionID...

https://www.metcheck.com/WEATHER/laundry_drying_times.asp
The fact that this many in the community are willing to question the moderation, is indicative of a higher level of tolerance within the community for what it deems "civil". Please consider being a little more lenient while moderating.
Protecting Your React.js Source Code with Jscrambler
I met a plasterer that told me he'd had to change careers because Polish competition would work for so much less, so it's not as simple as that.
I think there are many topics that should be taught to loved ones even if it doesn't resonate with them naturally. The ones that come immediately to my mind are: financial literacy, how to prepare for and respond in emergency situations (e.g. natural disasters, medical emergencies, threats from assailants), critical thinking. Knowing these can potentially save them from many expensive or life threatening mistakes and I would force them on my loved ones even if they resist.
This is a selective quote and commonly misunderstood. Taken in context, the status in question is whether NI remains a part of the UK or becomes a part of a united Ireland.

The point of that provision was that across the entire island of Ireland there was a majority for a reunited Ireland, but within NI specifically there was not, so this was an explicit agreement that reuniting North and South would not happen without the consent of the people of Northern Ireland alone.
yes it does, there is also acoustic analysis of keyboard noise, quite a lot and this all happens at the time of account creation and early account use until the FB AI thinks it knows who you are, there is no need for constant listening or watching,
I wonder how the sound fidelity is like, how is the bass response on it?
Firefox is doing what is technically the correct thing in using system colors text color and background when not specified.

Web developers are just not terribly competent. It should be obvious that setting text color but not text background is erroneous. Since expecting basic competence from web developers seems to be a losing battle several things suggest themselves.

- provide a gui option to select the theme/style to use for firefox separate from the gui. This is already possible at the command line.

- Explicitly check for text that is to close to the background wherein only one attribute is set and adjust the smartest solution

- Just ignore the users colors like chrome does.

Personally I have a dark gtk theme but run firefox with a light one because otherwise the web is unusable.
What is a trusted/good VPN to use?
The contracts takes effect from today on. Months ago they just signed it, but it wasn't executed till now. Needs some time to prepare for such things.
The librem 5 can't come fast enough.
I don't really know what you mean. I took issue with the claim that Java demonstrated that GC was suitable for high performance code and pointed out that even though GC is more common today than it was when Java came out that it is still avoided in applications that prioritize performance. Maybe those are 'niche' but some of them are rather large niches and there are several of them.

I personally don't find GC very useful nor do I think it's a particularly good idea and it's great to see new languages like Rust taking new approaches to memory management but I recognize that it's now the default in the majority of applications that don't prioritize performance or deal with severe resource constraints and that many programmers find it valuable. There are actually several languages I like that rely on a GC, Java is just not one of them.
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$ cat Makefile
$(info FOO $(flavor FOO))
FOO ?= foo
$(info FOO $(flavor FOO))

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$(info BAR $(flavor BAR))
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$(info BAR $(flavor BAR))

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$ make
FOO undefined
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If undefined then becomes recursive, otherwise the flavour is preserved.
Is this meaningful for the average customer? I'd like to import two Switch games to the EU from Japan soon (eBay or PlayAsia). Will the agreement mean that there are no potential customs for me anymore?
More drug addicts enrolled than students enrolled
Show HN: A Fast Distributed Ledger with Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Does anyone know if Google uses GA data (in particular bounce rates, time-on-site, etc.) as signals in rankings? I've always wondered if the additional data gathered once a user clicks through from the SERP to the site was eventually factored in to the site's ranking. (For example, a faster site receiving better rankings.)
Well, I built a picture converter from scratch in 250 hours.

It has a fully functional conversion system converting images to 9 different formats, it has a payment system and monthly subscription system through Stripe, it has its own custom REST api build from scratch to give access to other developers to use in their apps, and it has conversion tracking and measures in place to prevent abuse, to the best of my ability.

The above is why I feel confident about this project as it is nothing I haven't seen before.

I do agree about the sensitive data and payment info. Would that still apply given that I immersed myself in security for this specific purpose and do not actually keep anything on server? Stripe handles everything and it's all carefully encrypted. Maybe I'm missing something.

And yes, this will be a flat fee. I'm trying to get to a flat fee based on an hourly estimate + rates. In that regard, would you have a recommendation?
Could a pill slow aging? Harvard Geneticist David Sinclair thinks so
I think the parent is implying students can be drug addicts, and the drug addict figure is a set that include high school students.
First off, I just wanna thank you for being so candid and sharing your experiences so far. I wish you'd blog more, but I understand this eats into time you'd prefer to spend on your projects :)

Apart from your rent and private health insurance what else about the cost of living in Manhattan (apart from rent, food) pushed your expenses to 7K a month. I'm assuming you moved to a lower cost of area without modifying your lifestyle too much, so it's crazy that you'd get such a dramatic decrease in cost just by moving.
We would drive image the old Barracuda mail appliances.
The HD's would fail or the fans would get obscenely loud. You could run them in a whitebox server or VMware instance.
As an added bonus they were much, much faster.
In the Hudson Valley, we have (a) local weather nerd(s): https://hudsonvalleyweather.com .

It's especially nice for upcoming storms because they break down the region logically based on the relevant features (the river valleys and mountains), for instance: https://hudsonvalleyweather.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1...
Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld
He did mention in the middle of the article, he's buying private insurance:

"My living expenses were rapidly eating away at my personal savings. Between my $3.3k/month Manhattan apartment, private health insurance, food, and utilities, it cost $6-7k per month just to sustain myself."

If my experience (in California) is anything close, it costs somewhere around $500/mo for a single person his age. (If you have a spouse it gets up to around $1000/mo, and with kid(s) it goes up to about $1500/mo) This was 2013-2016 numbers, and was also with Covered California, not sure if that makes it any cheaper.
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So most people. Got it.
ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers
Do you want a pop up every time you browse a page?
The EU membership predates the GFA too. The GFA was able to be out in place in part thanks to the existence of both the CTA and the EU.

Do you think that if it worked the way you thought it did, there would be such a furore over the situation? I'm not saying UK MPs are the smartest bunch of people but if Brexit would leave the GFA untouched then surely they would have worked that out by now.

Perhaps you are wrong.
France isn't a superpower and has never been. The french empire was once the strongest empire, but even then it wasn't a superpower, but we could be using different definitions of the word.

It's great that you maintain a python blog, but is it written in french or english? If it is in french, you are limiting your reach. And that's not just limited to french, it also applies to chinese, japanese, german, arabic, etc.

If you want to expand your reach, you have to use english as it is the lingua franca today.
Indeed. Even directly derived agreements surely won't be concluded overnight, because there will be numerical issues about quotes, rules of origin and the like that will need to be reinterpreted to still make sense. Related concerns arise about the UK operating independently under WTO rules but trying to "inherit" the previous EU tariff schedules.
Despite releasing the 2018 model some months ago, Apple is still selling the 2017 MacBook Air: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air/1.8ghz-dual-c...

I put together a table comparing it with Apple's other laptop offerings:
https://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/201811190015_last_decent_macbo...
Lowering tarifs in general are good but my bet is that this is not really going to mean that much.

This is only good for big corporations. For the rest it's bureaucrazy (pun intended) and frankly won't have that big of an impact no matter how big it is.

Neither the EU nor the Japan are able to drive the market in any significant way. So it's great for Siemens but won't really matter to the little startup.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. - Einstein

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion. - Feynmann
For honorable people, a perceived stain against their honor is a big deal.
Why make the goals for 2019 so small? This makes things asymmetric the wrong way.

The risk associated with doing this is too high considering a 6k per revenue goal annually. When the cost is your savings and, more importantly, your time.

You don’t need to change the world or anything but why not make the goal 100k?

This will help you focus on things that can make 100k.
In a society we have to consider a balance of various values, competition is a value, and having a rich ecosystem where small bookshops aren't completely obliterated by unequal competition on prices with big online stores is another one. For some reason we live in a world where increasingly the only value that has any worth is money, and any other value is belittled. And somehow, we're the ideologues.
I really wish blog posts like this would at least mention that they are going to use GNUMake extensions. There's some good stuff in here, but just calling it "make" and leaving it at that is misleading. It's not going to work on my minimal (non-GNU) Linux boxes that mostly run NetBSD make (bmake in many distros) or busybox style tools. I know a very small minority of people do something like that (or maybe not, what does Alpine run in containers?), but it seems worth at least a quick footnote to say that most things in here won't be portable.
> Would high-spenders appreciate the label "whales" if this reasoning were explained to them?

I guess it depends on the environment, but it's common for (adult) whales in mobile games to know the term and use it in reference to themselves (and minnow, dolphin, etc).
Vidir: edit directory as text in your editor
So who was forcing the many famous Victorian philanthropist industrialists to build their railway and model villages, with free schools, hospitals and more for workers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village
Sure but the Interpol acts in the name of the local authorities. They either treated this as a missing persons case or issued a warrant for her arrest. Either way the timeline in the article suggests something on the order of days. I expect the the incredibly quick reaction time on the part of the Saudi authorities. But the Interpol reacting so fast is truly a wonder. I happen to have it on good authority that it takes them longer than that just to get the car out of the parking lot (crippling bureaucracy sometimes).

So was this intervention prioritized for some reason or is the timeline in the article just misleading?
I really like the GNU Make documentation, as well.

Links to the docs in various form:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/
Cities will have to regulate to prevent extra congestion. Good to know ahead of time, so they can at least get a head start? Or better to wait and see?
Because of greed. For some people they can never have enough.
Free marketeers often argue that markets are a better reflection of merit than alternative systems. I am considerably more ambivalent towards markets than this, but still think the fact that Federer is (i) disproportionately better compensated than other tennis players and (ii) better compensated than the average person is congruent with his performances having significant merit relative to people who cannot do what Federer does. At the very least, it is impossible to not to agree that Federer has significant merit with respect to the average tennis player (unlike, say, a programmer who is good at salary negotiations, well networked and lives in SV with respect to a lower-earning programmer who is merely better at every relevant aspect of software development) which I think was the OP's point.

And my original point was that meritocracy wasn't even originally conceived as a "good thing", never mind a utopian distribution of wealth and power allocation according to some ideal standard of social utility. Other people have subsequently chosen to [re]define meritocracy as some sort of aspirational standard for allowing more talented people to succeed; people defining 'meritocracy' with respect to the propensity of that skill to generate revenue are making as valid a use of the term as anyone else.
Yes, I agree it is inane. I think he’s trying to set up a vibe wherein this whole thing is separate from the “Mac people” scene. Doesn’t that make sense? The author is trying to establish his or her audience. He does this snidely, but I think that’s the goal: to exclude a certain cohort and to cozy up with another. I mean MacBook Air people wouldn’t find this compelling, and the author clearly doesn’t find the MacBook Air compelling, so he or she just nukes the whole platform to establish a niche.
Adobe Reader – PDF Callback via XSLT Stylesheet in XFA
The last Itanium chip – Never used CPU that shapped CPU industry
there might be implementations that don't do this for instance Siri or Bixby but that doesn't mean Googles approach is wrong.

It can be unacceptable for your privacy and security threat model but for most it makes 0 difference wether the training continuously happens in the cloud or locally on the NPU inside your phone.

Saving all the clips as much as people love to fear monger it is literally the strategy that objectively leads to the highest quality implementation on the market. Googles Assistant by far understands language most naturally and we owe that to all the free vocal training data google diligently uses.
I'm sure for him it was his reputation that was more important.
So you're claiming that Facebook is using 0days to bypass browser controls on your mic to do acoustical analysis of keyboard noise when you sign up?
Taxes were never meant for the rich ... at least that's what I took away from "Debt: the first 5000 years".