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i really wish spacemacs didn't have that pretty lame loading screen, as a spacevim devotee i found alot of things that spacemacs does that specifically address some issues i have with spacevim.

i know the correct path forward here is, of course, diving into the guts of spacevim and tinkering until it works for me, but i will post one quirk as it will probably be some time before i will be able to write my own comprehensive plugin:

the hugofy/markdown plugins seem to all do this awful thing in which they render the markdown on the fly. it's kinda neat for basic text formatting, but my god it is an utter nightmare if you have any sort of URL's or images, because the second you key in that second bracket, it suddenly dissapears and you're left having to basically guess your way through the process of typing the url and closing out the shortcode.

if someone knows of a markdown editor that plays nice, i'd love to see it. hope im not overlooking something painfully obvious here

anyways, i picked a hell of a time to dive into the commandline, a year ago i came across scoop/chocolatey and quickly discovered WSL, and thanks to a phenomenal amount of work by some great folks (even you, Person Reading This), my desktop is not much more than the lobby i pass through before going to where the magic happens: https://imgur.com/a/iCpWZAC
> AES256 or better

I'm not aware of any symmetric cipher that the industry in broad consensus would consider "better" than AES-256.
No, literally means literally, it's just picked up a figurative use, just like UFO actually means unidentified flying object, with a colloquial meaning of alien spaceship.
8chan is dead. Jim could barely keep the site going when it was up. Gonna miss it. /pol/ on 8ch was pretty gross, but /christianity/ and a few of the other smaller boards had great communities. I especially don't know where to find a Christian imageboard anymore. There are Christian threads on 4/pol/ every once in a while, but those guys are mostly looking for an alternative way to express their traditionalist sentiments rather than actually follow Christ.

Anyhow, I hope the losers that continually bitch about 4chan and 8chan understand what they're ruining. It's a lot more than just /pol/.
> You may attempt to influence behavior and ethics by redefining the meanings of words

I am not the one re-defining words here.

> When "theft" moves from the physical to the intangible, it becomes plagiarism or counterfeiting

I see. Please explain how counterfeiting is not stealing.
It really should be for offsetting the externalities from burning fossil fuels _and_ wear on the road, so if you burn it, you clean it up.
Ditto, if you compute long enough you are virtually guaranteed to live the frustration of artificial boundaries brought to you by DRM.
We really need to get over this topic as a species and head forward towards free, unassailable information access...
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I'm struggling with this right now. My 7 year old child is "profoundly gifted" which is an IQ above 145 (he is almost 160). He is mostly a wonderful child and he is very very smart. He is well above his peers and is mostly sweet but he has extreme behavioral issues many times throughout the day. He has friends that love to play with him but like a German Shepherd, will out of nowhere attack them verbally because he perceived a slight and will scream and say horrible things. We have sent him to psychologists and behaviorists and burned through our savings and spent close to $200k over the last two years and we have run out of money. I'm getting close to the point where I accept that school isn't for him.

I've been told that most schools do not cater for profoundly gifted children, especially the asynchrony of the emotional development. I don't blame the schools because children like my son are very extreme. I don't know what setting is right for him, but we have no choice but to look into home schooling, let him grow academically and in emotional peace, and maybe when his maturity increases we can reintegrate him with other children. Or maybe home schooling will be such a relief for him that his anxiety or whatever it is that is causing this will get naturally alleviated.
Indeed. Just as their systematic fraud is within the scope of the free market, so is piracy.
The use of the word subsidy is a sleight of hand to double count the environmental impact of fossil fuels.

Not penalizing harmful externalities is bad policy. Subsidizing them is lunacy.
> The dark web is believed to be heavily monitored by intelligence and law enforcement agencies who often subvertly operate exit nodes in an attempt to trace the traffic back to its origin.

Everyone says this, never quite realizing that hidden services (the .onion links on TOR) don't rely on exit nodes, and therefore wouldn't be subverted by such measures.

They also say that 8chan users are revealing their IP addresses. First, if 8chan is gone from the clearnet, this means they're posting to a .onion domain, right? The websites are a bit unclear on this, but Wikipedia seems to imply that 8chan is no longer available on clearnet since August. So how are they divulging their IP addresses?
Thanks for the advice!

I took your advice and communicated everything in a very transparent way to the customer.

Regarding Stripe after email/call/chat I got in touch on their IRC channel and the user (Stripe engineer?) karllekko got in touch with me. The issue is now resolved. karllekko if you are reading this once again: thank you.
Accounting isn't just lying with numbers. Those are real costs whether they're paid for in cash or otherwise. They may be hard to estimate, but they're real costs.

For example, if you build roads and don't charge users to use them, they are going to use those roads more than if you charged users the costs that they incur for construction and maintenance. Building roads but not charging for their use is a subsidy to vehicle use, which is also a subsidy to all of the inputs of vehicle use, including mining, manufacturing, and yes, fossil fuel consumption.

The same goes for environmental costs. You either pay for them with cash or you pay for them with a destroyed environment. And even with a destroyed environment, you're probably still paying in cash, just indirectly, deferred substantially, and with significant interest.
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Yes, if you look at extreme versions like the Soviet system it by and large did what it was supposed to do and produced for all it's other flaws a pretty solid amount of very well trained experts, and a very highly educated general populace. I'd include athletes from your list as well because they also tend to thrive in very rigid environments, artists and celebrities less so.

In my experience whenever I hear people talk about unschooling or free thought for their children it isn't about children at all but about the political beliefs of their parents. There's still this kind of 60s hippie or California 'free spirit' individualist attitude that also has a renaissance in 'hacker' circles. It seems to me more about the beliefs of a certain social class than generally about education.
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I don't think schooling has much to do with people's failure or success as much as other factors that are either inherited genetically, financially, or socially. If you want high performers make sure they have the best genetics, come from secure families, have lots of money, and have a wealthy and powerful social network. Outside of that we have lottery winners and for those theorizing about to reproduce them is stupid as they are in fact lottery winners that won because of chance not for any good reasonable reason.
A solid understanding of quantum physics, helped along by research with quantum computing, is part of the foundation for much modern high technology. Current quantum computing research is pioneering better techniques for noise isolation and error correction, which has excellent practical potential as well.

My point with the LHC isn't just that it has produced useful things, but that we didn't know exactly that it would do so when it all started. Planning & construction on projects that would eventually form part of the LHC began as early as the late 70's, early 80's, roughly 40 years ago. That too was based on research & engineering that started even earlier. So if we're comparing the LHC and quantum computing, the tech behind the LHC has had more time to be developed and refined. When quantum computing gets to the same level of maturity, it may have just as many positive effects. Even so, arguing about time lines is probably besides the point: different research can take longer or shorter to have a beneficial impact.

Maybe there are other things that would benefit more from the same resources, but it's also not something we can know in advance. Plenty of early promising research is chased for years with no result. Some research takes decades for its significance and practical impacts to be felt. We have to pursue a lot of things or we'll never get much of anywhere.

I'm also curious though: The argument that quantum computing isn't doing enough, fast enough, has some merit. It's not quite zero sum, but there is a limited amount of money to go around, and maybe it could be better spent. What would be your pet project to advance in place of quantum computing? Personally, I'd want greater focus on energy research. I'm not looking to criticize your choice, I'm genuinely curious.
It's the one thing I miss having upgraded from a D5300 to a D500. I loved the GPS and not having to rely on SnapBridge.
Nearly 100% of new FDA approved drugs are developed by for profit companies. I don't know of a single case where a drug came directly from academia without another entity spending tens of millions on high risk r&d [0]

It is misleading to say that the pharma industry is hugely profitable because 5 companies have high profit margins. There are thousands of pharma companies. Most will never make a profit -- they just do research. Most of these fail, the ones that succeed sell their drugs to those big pharma companies bc they can't commercialize them on their own.

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Their product is not their stock, it's their code.
Could it be that someone in your household or a neighbor is connected to your network and using an app (there are loads) turn your TV on/off?

I used to joke with my brother and turn his TV on/off, he went crazy thinking the TV is broke.
They don’t need to seed, they just need to join the swarms to gobble up IP addresses. They don’t have to send a single byte of actual content.

But there’s the occasional content owner who would go so far as to poison a swarm by sending bad chunks.
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900 reduced to 400 after I mailed them. I only paid because I was in a foreign country and didn't want to take any risk. Apparently they'd take any amount because going further in the process end up costing more to them (and potentially much more for you too).
Adam Back, is this your HN account?
As stated in the article, Overdub forces you to read random sentences so you can’t just feed in hours of audio. That being said, this technology is quickly becoming commoditized and I suspect others won’t be as scrupulous.
The problem is that the number of attack vectors are legion. If they don't get you by DNS they'll get you by one of the thousands of other attack vectors.
Blindly sending email to managers who might hire you works better than sending an application off blindly to HR. Of course, the former is often seen as SPAM though can work if you have the right qualifications and they have the right needs.
This is a tricky one to eliminate because of the problem of "fuel poverty": people, especially the elderly, who are unable to heat their houses to acceptable levels in winter. There's even a separate "winter fuel payment" for OAPs, but that's not tied to any actual consumption.

Really there should be a plan to transition away from those tax breaks for everything except green electricity. Oil first, natural gas last. The few remaining people dependent on heating oil are having trouble affording it anyway - but they tend to be rural.
I nodded along expect the last one. What do you mean by thinking protocol over data?
> However, the salary Microsoft pays does not match the full value he created. The difference is Microsoft's profits.

Will I be liable for a company's losses under your system?
Of course, if you plan to use one $language alone, you can do anything in that $language.

This question is specific to pipes.
What does adequately treated mean?

It may come as a surprise, but most pharmaceutical advances come as incremental changes. I can't find it, but there was an interesting chart showing life expectancy of colon cancer over time.

Each of the new advances only added 2-3 months of life. However, after a decade, life expectancy had grown by almost 5 years.

So my comment for you is that they wouldn't be putting R&D money into something unless there was enough demand for it.
au contraire, i bet wordpress users make a lot more revenue than SV combined (not a high bar - most SV startups lose money)
Then this review might be more up your alley :D
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/iphone-1...
I think the whole "data-driven" ideology is getting worn out.

It's especially bad on a lot of data science teams because there can be a lack of serious management experience and know-how if the team has a background mostly in academia. Academia is full of extremely dysfunctional behavior, even moreso than corporations, which is shockingly hard to pull off!

Everything described in this article is old hat for experienced, knowledgeable executives, people in the know have been talking about these ideas for at least half a century (dating back to Drucker, Deming and others).

While I agree with the authors' recommendations, I disagree about their diagnosis. I think Wells Fargo's main problem was a lack of internal controls, which is a boring, but necessary part of any large business.
The -p gives you a tab for every file opened. If you don't provide it, it still opens them and you get a buffer for each one, but it doesn't open any tabs. If you still get tabs even if you don't provide it, maybe you have a vim plugin that's doing that.
School is supposed to be a place of learning. Instead, it became a daycare for kids to spend their days in autopilot mode
The US has Microsoft.
But that's not how an electricity spot market works. The market price is instantaneous as the energy is delivered.
Good point with the car fixation. We're very close to easy personalized air travel (eg: the English Channel hoverboard crossing of earlier this summer). License plates are made for objects with a clear front and back, traveling mostly forwards and backwards. How will we identify personal carrier drones? Maybe the answer to this question will move us out of the box and provide a more robust solution to this general license plate issue, and then we can apply that to cars.
As I understood it (obviously with some exceptions), music videos were an expense for the band/label that fell under the general purpose of promotional material (like posters, magazine ads, etc.)

Of course they were a chance to be creative and have fun as well, but that can be the case for any promo material. The thing with MTV was that it was such a low cost concept for a network. Instead of paying for programming like most TV, music videos were essentially free (if not sold to the network in a reversal of the typical TV transaction).

It was like a paid infomercial for bands and albums, except actually entertaining in its own right.
Looks like Boeing is headed for another PR disaster with their NASA lobbying efforts.
This is helpful. Core takeaway at the end: "That suggests that to get the best of both worlds – to minimize the Work Premium as well as the work of running a full fundraise – founders should use pre-emptive offers to run an accelerated, abbreviated process with a handful of select investors. The way to do this is for founders to make sure they are cultivating relationships with a subset of investors they think would be good partners for their company far in advance of their actual raise."
I've gotten at least a phone interview from almost every place I've applied over the last half decade, even when I was an entry level programmer. I'm not sure what the deal is. I guess I've just been extraordinarily lucky.
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I taught a couple of home school co-ops during school. I found that for this particular group, these kids basically didn't learn math, but were good writers, well read and eloquent speakers.

My wife says that they were all incredible awkward to be around, so there may be something to the social thing.
ImageNet is basically made by doing Google image searches on words from the WordNet database (a structured collection of words and their definitions), and then doing quality control by crowdsourcing.

So from Googling "assenter" and asking a bunch of people "here is the definition of an assenter, does this image contain one?", they have 126 confirmed pictures of assenters that can be used to see what a typical assenter looks like.

Then the data is used to train a neural network to recognise these classes.

Some of these steps may introduce biases.
I generally presume you're no fool Matt, hence it was just a wondering, no offense intended of course. :)
There's a movie relevant to this topic called Captain Fantastic. It's about a father who raises his kids in the forests of the Pacific NW.

I do think it's true that school is oppressive. I guess it's oppressive for the same reason modern mass societies are oppressive: strict conformity is tacitly enforced. The nail that stands out (for whatever reason) is usually hammered in. Of course we also gain a lot from the way we've arranged our societies (and our schools). We're optimizing for the best outcomes on average -- and we may be doing that fairly well -- but that doesn't mean we're anywhere close to optimal for a given individual.

Unfortunately, "optimal for each individual" may not be a realizable goal. But if you have the resources, alternative means of educating your children seem tempting.

It's also well-documented that girls seem to tolerate school better than boys (and get better grades), which is interesting.
> Could Latin perhaps fit the bill? It's already popular with lawyers

Lawyer here — very few of us know more Latin than the odd artifact such as ejusdem generis or contra proferentem, which occasionally are relevant to contract interpretation. And those of us of a certain age who grew up Catholic will remember bits and pieces of the old Latin Mass. Otherwise, Latin is probably as dead to lawyers as to anyone else.

English is now the global lingua franca; while I used to be a grammar vigilante, not long ago it occurred to me that in the linguistic "marketplace," if we native speakers want English to outcompete, e.g., Mandarin or Spanish, we need to be willing to let the language evolve so that it's easier for non-native speakers to learn and use confidently.
No, because you don't have line-of-sight to 80 different towers in such cases.
"Steal" in English means much more than just taking physical property without legal right and without intention of returning it. Here are several examples of common, correct, usage:

• Someone says they do not like cats and have no interest in having one as a pet. A cute stray kitten shows up on their doorstep, they take pity and feed it. They fall in love with it and keep it. They might say that the kitten "stole" their heart.

• An actor playing a minor role in a play gives a performance that outshines the performance of the stars. Many would say that the actor "stole" the show.

• An employee of a rival company poses as a janitor to gain access to your lab and takes a photo of a whiteboard containing the formula for a chemical that is a trade secret in your manufacturing process. It would be common to say that the rival company "stole" your secret formula.

• When crackers gain access to a company's list of customer email addresses, passwords, or credit card numbers, it is commonly said that the data was "stolen".

• Alice is Bob's fiancé. Mallory woos Alice without Bob's knowledge. Alice elopes with Mallory. Most would find it acceptable if Bob said that Mallory "stole" his fiancé.

• A team that has been behind since the start of the game but wins on a last second improbable play is often said to have "stolen" the game.

Outside of court documents, statutes, law review articles, and your final exam in an IP law class, using the word "steal" for willful copyright infringement is common and correct usage.
Internet radio has figured this out, mechanical licensing. What is stopping netflix from lobbying and campaigning for something similar?
This could be really useful in VR.
They don't make that revenue on behalf of the folks who make Wordpress, necessarily
You will know, because we announced it. :) It's 100% primary. There's been a lot of additional interest so probably more secondary in the future.
I don’t know if you remember school, but the social environment that exists in K-12 is deeply dysfunctional and I’m not convinced it prepares you well for socializing in real life. Children are antisocial and schools are an instance of the inmates running the asylum.

Ben Sasse’s book “the Vanishing American Adult” points out that the modern child-centric school system is an extremely recent invention. Back in the day, children were socialized by hanging out around adults who could teach them how to be humans.

If my wife and I cared more about our kids we’d home school them.
WordPress is ace if you stick to what WordPress does well. As soon as you start trying to push it to be something else (ecommerce, surveys, complex custom data stuff) things get hard to manage quickly.
I wholly agree with your start - let's do it. The best example we have so far is the Orkneys. Tiny, but a nett power exporter built on renewables, and managing easily. A proper example is sorely needed.

Kit out a nation with wholly solar, wind, hydro etc. Add whatever pumped storage and battery the grid might require. Start moving to modern standards of insulation and community heat and power schemes. Stable, secure, and cheaper heat and power.

If, as you claim, there is a gap in the capability of renewables (which I don't believe for a moment), we need to learn how large it is, as soon as possible.

I suspect it's only vested interests stopping us.
Are you surprised that the biggest (i.e. most successful drug companies) have the highest profit margins?

What about all the companies that no longer exist because their drug failed and they went bankrupt?

It's disingenuous to limit your analysis of profit to the most successful companies.
This one hit home for me recently as my partner and I were streaming Good Omens off of Prime. It was a laptop on wifi (10mbps connection), hooked up by HDMI to the TV, and the quality kept dropping down to 480p or worse.

Every time it did it, I was like, man I should have just pre-downloaded this, and then it would be issue-free.
> only methods based on Discrete Log are at risk, which includes RSA and ECC

RSA's security is based on the presumption that factorization is hard, which is a different problem than finding the discrete log. To attack RSA you would use Shor's algorithm, and to attack ECC you would use Grover's.

See page 2 of this paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.00200.pdf