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You could also say that it reflects well on our country that a private citizen was able to realize that something needed to be done differently, and then make the change themselves instead of hassling through a decades-long "change the bureaucracy" adventure while competing with seven other equally motivated individuals who also want to change the education system, but in completely different ways...
Or periodic renovation to code on important components of e.g. the home envelope or electrical system.
Atom is definitely NOT an improvement in that regard. Microsoft optimized the shit out of the parsing bits of VSCode, moving as much as they could into C++ Node extensions for speed and responsiveness. As Electron apps go, VSCode is tense nearly to the point of rupture. Atom has made great strides, but afaik is still not there yet.
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I really appreciate the clarity of this comment. While hacker news is certainly one of the better forums, the amount of armchair analysis and pseudointelectualism, especially on scientific non-IT posts, is pretty frustrating. It reminds of the "middlebrow dismissal" style https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072224
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Lambda is an incredibly interesting architecture, but its pretty rare to find a use-case that makes sense given its inherent limitations. There's always going to be a cold start; even if they manage to optimize the runtime cold start to near-zero, functions still have stuff they gotta do once they start.

Google's recent Cloud Run service feels like a much more generally useful Serverless platform. Even AWS Fargate, despite not having the whole "spin the containers down when its not serving requests" feature, is how I envision most customers adopting for Serverless on the medium term (especially with their recent huge price reduction, its actually competitive with EC2 instances now).

AWS needs to get Fargate support added to EKS. Stat. It was promised 18 months ago at Re:Invent and is still listed in their "In Development" board on Github. That'll change the game for Kubernetes on AWS, because right now its kind of rough.
Push your logic a little farther. Any sane parent would think twice about risking their life for their child's life. Now push another direction... if you'd sacrifice your own life for your child, what about for someone else's child? A few years ago, I ran into the street in front of a moving car to try to save a child I didn't even know. I wouldn't have made it on time; luckily the car saw the child and slammed the brakes in time. But it's interesting to find just how deep one's own altruism will go. (Also interestingly, I did this in front of my spouse and our own children)

There's nothing unusual for being willing to die for a THING. Hell, people have sacrificed themselves in the millions for mere ideas. People fight to the death over tiny scraps of symbolic land.

It may seem stupid to you. It's stupid to me, too. But that's what people do. That's what people are.
I think how it goes is you collect the money. The other diners include tips and tend to round up. You take their tips and use it to pay your own bill. The waiter/restaurant lose their tips, your friends lose face and are tricked out of they're generosity, you get food for no money.
>If you could 3d print things at the atomic level, then you could instantly advance the human race to a post scarcity society.

You still need energy, and you still need something to print with (not just the printer, but whatever substrate provides the atoms,) and the process is going to be somewhat inefficient due to thermodynamics. 3D printing a vegetable, likely, would still consume more resources than simply growing one in a garden. Plenty of room there for scarcity.
Nice little text, but doesn't live up to the clickbait title sadly. Would have been more interesting if the author had tried to follow the spread of the meme across some selected media, personally I first saw the claim made by CNN, but I don't know if they were the first.

Still, there is some value in the article if it manage to calm down the hype without giving the incels a win. Lets hope the work Mervosh put in accomplish just that pays off!
I don't think anyone is saying that it was malicious, but it was absolutely negligent. For people with decisional authority, organizational pressure is not an excuse.
For people with responsibility, lapsed vigilance is not acceptable. They weren't forced to make a split-second decision, and they weren't fatigued. While there were contributing systemic factors, this was still a mistake to dismiss the information so quickly. They're professionals, not amateurs.
Why doesn’t this violate the topological censorship result?
It is possible to do so, using third party applications. I've done it with the help of a friend, although it required using paid Windows apps that looked like there was no way they could possibly be legitimate and not a scam - they worked like a charm. the process involved an application downgrade, forcing the iPhone to make local backup instead of backing up to the cloud and a handful other things, all of which where automated.
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I read an article by Ramez Naam that suggested this would be solved by a nationwide grid rather than separate grids, since weather and usage fluctuations will average out
Dude has 11 industry-recognized certifications in the domains of IT, information security, security framework and secure enterprise architecture.

So I guess Wipro will have everything under control.
Topical, if a bit morbid I'd say.

It's also not in english for the most part despite being the english version of the page, but that's just france I suppose.
I recently shopped for a 5 door hatchback. There are VW TDI's all over Utah. My understanding, from sales people, is that VW bought many of them back, "fixed" them, and put them back on the used market.

Can anyone give me insight into the fixes they have applied?

If the cars were cheating to defeat IM tests, wouldn't making them not cheat make them fail (or nearly fail) IM tests? Are these cars likely to fail the tests as they age?

Did VW actually fix the IM problem instead of using the software to defeat the tests? If so, it seems like the fix wasn't all that hard and it might have been easier to fix them than to cheat in the first place.
There's a bit of a phenomenon in Sydney (possibly elsewhere, I wouldn't know) of companies doing this.

I call them VC-bait or grant-bait. There's a handful of grants you can get for startups here, so they'll get all of those, get some free hosting from Microsoft, put up a landing page etc. If they're lucky they'll get a few tens of thousands from private investors, then fall over a few months later.

I'm not sure if it's intentional or if people are just clueless, but in any case they make a bit of money, pad out the CV a bit and move on. I wouldn't got so far as to say they're defrauding investors
This was because of base::Unretained, which extracts raw C style pointers out of nice, safe C++ wrappers. Unfortunately, this is still a requirement in the advanced C++ software.

I wish there was a nice way to remove a need for such things, like a weak pointer that work with unique_ptr, but I do not think it is possible to do this while preserving zero overhead implementation.

The only practical solution I can think of is a shared_ptr-like object limited to have unique_ptr semantics. This will have overhead, but it could be worth it for the security gains.
Watergate is the obvious example. But there haven't been many investigations of presidents – or at least investigations of presidents personally, which seems to be the scope you're asking about. The AP won the 1999 Feature Photography award for its work covering the Lewinsky affair and impeachment hearings [0]. I don't know if I would count Maureen Dowd's award in commentary [1] as specifically challenging the administration. And I think it's arguable that the Clintons' Whitewater controversy had the same amount of "matter" as what President Trump is currently under investigation for, considering Ken Starr's Whitewater probe recommended impeachment for things not directly related to Whitewater (I would agree that Bill Clinton, however, did not get the scrutiny he deserved for Paula Jones and others).

If you expand the scope of "investigation against a president" to include the actions of his administration, then you'll find more examples:

1987 National Reporting Award for the Miami Herald's reporting on Iran-Contra (Bob Woodward of the WaPo was also a finalist on the same topic in this category) [2]

2011 Editorial Writing to the WSJ for its editorials challenging Obamacare [3]

2014 Public Service Award to The Guardian and the WaPo for the Snowden revelations [4]

[0] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/photo-staff-0

[1] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/maureen-dowd

[2] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-21

[3] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/joseph-rago

[4] https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/guardian-us
OTOH this is great that a private citizen can see an opportunity to give kids better education, and actually follow through that plan, making an example to replicate and build upon.

In many countries, this is not a given: either directly forbidden or infeasible due to red tape.
Definitely. This is a glass is quarter full type of situation.
Please no. Centralization is always abused (eventually). Email + mastodon + IRC = happy little hackers.
It's a moment of pride that this country has citizens like him. It reflects well on the values of some of the celebrities like him, and hopefully it is inspiring others, thanks also in part to good journalism. It also didn't happen without the efforts of the kids who had to believe it was possible, put in the hours, and demonstrated proficiency on the tests.
Maybe our own emotions aren't the subject of importance here?
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You are 100% sure that Seth Rich wasn't murdered in a conspiracy because Wikipedia said so?

I'm not saying that he was murdered by the DNC because I haven't seen enough evidence that supports that theory. But to act like the theory has been conclusively disproven because of a wikipedia article that cites the Washington Post, Snopes, and Politifact is rather naive.
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Everyone in this thread is focused on whether or not the firefighters think the risk is worth it to save artwork. You're overlooking the fact that the sort of person who signs up to fight fires gets a rush out of being in a burning building in the first place. Saving the art is just a bonus...
What are you talking about? Yugoslavia and Ukraine are not part of the EU and they are not that well off either. What ex-soviet republics were better off before they joined the EU? Most of them were still recovering from communism.

As soon as the EU falls apart you will see everyone feeling cheated or oppressed by its neighbour for all kind of reasons not to mention territorial reclaims. War will be inevitable. The big powers will profit most(Russia, China and the US).
That's mostly true but not absolutely so. Windows kernel space needs signed-code in 64-bits (except in a configuration only suitable for testing during dev), and MS very much makes use of internal undocumented and changing API to implement various high level features in a way that gives them a virtual exclusivity by the mere fact they are working at a level such that no competitor can even appear, or if a competitor do appear it will have the greatest pain to make a correct use of undocumented API and the competing implementation might not even continue to work after applying even security patches. Look for example at WSL: while it is very very cool and useful, no third-party can (at least in practice without MS collaboration) write a competing implementation. The same happened throughout the history of the dev of windows in various degrees and fields, and MS even has been found guilty of violating various anti-trust laws despite arguing in court that bundling disputed functionalities was a necessity of the design of their OS (they sometimes eventually managed to release extra stripped ISO extremely minimally modified compared to original ones to comply, making it clear that they are technically way better than what they argue in court...)

So it's a mere question of size and market share -- and it is not possible to reason from pure logic and as if it happened in a vacuum: the reason why they should not have an absolute unconditional right to design their exclusive features by implementing them using internal-only API is simply because they are a gigantic corporation shipping a behemoth OS used on a ton of computers and that would allow them to in practice and because of the clear advantage of maintaining the two sides of APIs extinguish any competition in the field they want on their platform.
This story resonates with me deeply. I grew up in a lower income, single parent household to a family environment plagued with drug addiction and feelings of economic hopelessness. I was on track to drop out by my senior year of high school. My father (who was always in and out of prison) committed suicide my freshman year of high school. I was distraught but blessed. My English teacher at the time noticed what I was going through and got me involved in a program for at-risk kids called AVID [1]. It is because of this organization that I was able to not only graduate from high school but also university and go on to have a successful career in software development.

Our society pays a lot of lip service to youth being the future but we don't actually do much to help them succeed. The person you might call a loser or criminal was once a child who had the opportunity to become a shining example of what our society can produce. These children are being lost at some point along the way. Once they become adults we shame them for their life decisions but what are we actually doing to solve the problem?

When you say, "hey, 90% of these students are outpacing peers in their district based on academic indicators", I say maybe LeBron is onto something. Let's adopt this approach, scale it and study the results.

[1] https://www.avid.org/
Unfortunately, the plot, such as it is, unravels into delirious chaos during the second half. Toby even breaks the fourth wall at one point to wonder aloud, 'There's a plot?'

I've asked the universe that question many times, but all I ever get is a chuckle.
So if I'm reading this right, the previous testing was done with a 3 cubic inch foam block at 200 ft/sec impact velocity... and the foam ramp was 1900 cubic inches and going 900 feet/sec at impact.

This is like saying "shooting someone in the head with a BB gun doesn't kill them, so we think shooting them in the head with a shotgun slug should be fine."

What on earth were these people thinking?
Scores are visible, on your own posts, and total karma next to your name. I could do without, tbh.
They actually have a robot called Octograbber or Roomba. I'm not sure why it wasn't deployed.
The bug is thinking we can sandbox and run arbitrary code safely. Java, Javascript, flash, and even intel have failed at this.

It would be nice if we could acknowledge this rather than rewrite everything again and still fail.
Tried that when he was very young (and have tried it again many times since), didn't work. He doesn't care about food. He will literally allow himself to starve to death before eating something he doesn't want to eat.
As a minority, I hope this isn't another "minority schools do well turned scam". Seems like we have these "amazing successes" turned to "scams" every couple of years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/us/tm-landry-college-prep...

If it is a success, why turn it into a national story? Doesn't that put more unnecessary pressure on these schools and kids to "succeed"? Wouldn't that put more pressure on these schools to cheat if expectations aren't met?

I don't understand why this is a national news story. Do the kids benefit from the extra national pressure? No. Do the schools benefit? No. Am I wrong in thinking only lebron and the nytimes benefits from this story? Why not let these kids and schools succeed quietly? These underprivileged kids have enough hurdles as is, do they really the added burden of national coverage?
That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.
You can feel it if you go to top fuel drag racing, too! In fact, it's more than just feeling, it's like someone is beating on your chest.
If the choice is a private citizen does or does not do this, then them doing it is better. But there is another possibility demonstrated in other countries: quality schools run by the government. In light of that possibility, I agree with the OP that it’s a shame this kind of thing is necessary. The US does pretty poorly on schooling compared to other countries AFAIK.
> It looks like a false positive for me, but still it leaves a very bad taste.

I agree, this definitely doesn't look good. If I were you I'd uninstall this obviously broken antivirus software.
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Here is what NASA emailed to the crew about the foam strike:

--- begin quote ---

You guys are doing a fantastic job staying on the timeline and accomplishing great science. Keep up the good work and let us know if there is anything that we can do better from an MCC/POCC standpoint.

There is one item that I would like to make you aware of for the upcoming PAO event on Blue FD 10 and for future PAO events later in the mission. This item is not even worth mentioning other than wanting to make sure that you are not surprised by it in a question from a reporter.

During ascent at approximately 80 seconds, photo analysis shows that some debris from the area of the -Y ET Bipod Attach Point came loose and subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing, in the area of transition from Chine to Main Wing, creating a shower of smaller particles. The impact appears to be totally on the lower surface and no particles are seen to traverse over the upper surface of the wing. Experts have reviewed the high speed photography and there is no concern for RCC or tile damage. We have seen this same phenomenon on several other flights and there is absolutely no concern for entry.

That is all for now. It's a pleasure working with you every day.

--- end quote ---

Now does it sound to you like the crew was fully informed, or like NASA was minimizing the issue?

https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/030630emails/
Where are the people that told me that front-running is only used to describe your actions in response to your own client's orders?

Just because you were taught not to use it in email doesn't mean that certain forms of arbitrage are not front running.
The "scientific community" does not get to define terms used by the financial industry and financial regulators.
Hey, it reads "in good faith". This only works when an officer in question could not know (s)he is breaking a law. Knowingly doing illicit things is not covered, afaict.
> That theme gets expanded quite a bit in the film culminating in a fantastic scene with Robert De Niro as a rogue heating engineer.

so good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRfoIyx8KfU&t=2m10s
I love how often the answer to “what was the first time someone did X?” turns out to be several times longer ago than one might have imagined (that Ancient Greek battery seems to have surfaced a couple Times this week too).
> Do you really want that?

no.

> Will China be a better global empire?

I reckon it is the concept, rather than the flavour, of empire that is wrong.

> Maybe the USA being a global empire is the least worst alternative.

maybe if we tried harder we could imagine alternatives to empire
Gina Haspel, the current CIA chief, joined the CIA in 1985 and was not proposed for a permanent leadership position during Obama's time. Obama made a compromise in 2009 to not rock the boat when he entered the office. You expect people to treat this kind of "pardon" as no different than appointing someone to CIA chief? As Dexter Filkins put it: [0]

> When Obama took office, in 2009, he declared that he would not prosecute anyone involved in the C.I.A.’s interrogation programs, not even senior officers, among whom Haspel was one. At the time, Obama said he wanted to look forward and not back. But the past, as Obama well knows, never goes away. With the prospect of American torture looming again, I wonder if Obama regrets his decision. After all, people like Haspel, quite plausibly, could have gone to prison.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-c-i-a-deput...
I wonder what the impact on resale value would be
Wow. I'm always astonished by the people who think economic espionage isn't a huge part of Western intelligence services. It is.

The Americans just hide it better and it's entirely within their mandate. China couldn't care less if the world finds out. France is absolutely running wild and has been for decades. Australia has been caught planting bugs in foreign leaders offices for the sole purpose of an oil companies business deal.
> Exist completely within a network

I bet this requirements implies working seemlessly between online and offline networks. In which case this project is not just building another XMPP/WhatApps/Signal/etc. They are building another Cabal (https://cabal-club.github.io/) :-)
Ah yes, America, the country where we take pride in the fact that a few school children will be bailed out of a broken system by some rich folks who want to see change. Let’s not get caught up in why this is needed or the millions of students who haven’t been so lucky. America is proof that rich people can make the lives of a few people better! /sarcasm
>It's a small experiment, but it's hard to spin the early results as anything but a good thing.

How much are they spending per student? That might put a damper on it if it turns out they’re spending an amount of money that wouldn’t scale.
There's a tradeoff in these (many? most? all?) diesel engines between better emissions performance and better mileage. The cheat was that the software would tune the engine for mileage normally, except when it detected that it was being tested it would tune the engine for lower emissions. The fix is to lock them into the low-emissions mode.
I wish we had found a way to integrate these review features in to git itself so this feature would work no matter where you hosted your git repo rather than having every text editor have to implement proprietary apis.