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The US support of Syrian "moderate" rebels was stupid, shortsighted, and pretended that the world was a different place.

And I will infinitely fault the Obama administration for providing technology which immediately fell into jihadist hands, which any reasonable analyst would have told them would happen.

But it's not accurate to say the US 'supplied' equipment to ISIS. ISIS stole it.
The way you phrased that kind of makes it sound like just another commitment to be avoided. Wouldn't you need to do something more like "give your friend $1000 in escrow and tell her she should only give it back to you if you run the marathon"?
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Yeah, their enterprise offerings are subscription based (per user). I only use it privately.
I think you've missed some of my points, but I appreciate your passion.
Schools. Interurban schools are normally a microcosms and exaggeration of our societal problems, and as such not rated well academically.

My personal experience is moving to an old suburb that abuts the city while also having one of the best school districts in the Commonwealth and all the amenities of medium to high density (e.g. public transit and being able to walk to nearly everything I need.) I would like to know how they define "city" because I moved out of the political entirely, but well within the social and "infrastructural" city.
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What rhetoric? And of course, by the time they are adults it will be far too late to act.
If the site is providing toy examples that are not useful in production, then it should state that.

If "idioms" mean code that adheres to best practices, given that C# code is frequently threaded, their examples should mitigate common threading issues.
Interesting- why is that?
That's great! Your coworker's family member is breaking the law! You can't sublet for more than the rent controlled rent.
“Use a real VPN” is actually pretty hard for a random user: there are constant ads for VON services that turn out to not protect their users’ traffic, and/or harvest and sell their users traffic, and yet are harder to use and more expensive.

Just like how “but they can see your email” isn’t enough of a deterrent to convince the majority of people to switch from free gmail (hotmail, yahoo, etc.) to a paid service with actual privacy, “Cloudflare can see your traffic” is unlikely to convince people who are more worried about nebulous sniffers and scammers at their local coffee shops than giant internet infrastructure companies.
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in addition to GP/sibling's reasons:

(d) I enjoy the activity of walking or biking or the relaxation of reading or sleeping over driving a car most of the time

(e) cars are expensive (average TCO is $8k per year). That's multiple vacations per year, for me.

(f) riding in cars isolate me from others around me in a weird way. Society has partially adapted to this by talking about cars as if they were animate objects

(g) parking lots are bundles of frustration for me with multiple people and vehicles constantly in conflict

very much echo GP/sibling in wanting day-to-day trips to be car free. Maybe <10 trips per month via car.
I've found that different soles on running shoes wear out way faster than others. The soft, white squishy-style rubber wears out super fast, so I always make sure my running shoes have the harder, black rubber soles instead.
WARNING:

If you buy one of the S7/S9 preloaded models, the camera quality is likely to be quite poor, especially under low light. This is the state of affairs under microG (/lineage), as Samsung ROMs use a proprietary camera library that doesn't carry over. Source: My main phone is an herolte (S7), as the Exynos variants are one of the few phones with separate baseband and application processors.

This should be prominently mentioned on the product page, as it's just going to cause disappointment, regret, and ultimately backlash. Really they should choose an additional model with good camera support to refurbish, and offer the choice as an explicit tradeoff (better quality photos vs better baseband security).

(And if I am completely wrong here because they've somehow fixed or sidestepped this, please correct me. It just doesn't seem likely)
In my experience the stereotype is well deserved. I have in the past reported impropriety during a company conference, and specified I was doing it to make sure people were advised to knock it off and avoid getting ourselves a Uber style scandal, I was put on probation right away (the CTO was involved) and I had to leave the company right after that. It wasn't worth to sue them and frankly the job sucked, but that taught me the valuable lesson that even if you're looking out for the business, HR is still not your ally. HR serves executives and nobody else.
And how are you going to bomb them without using oil?
I assume you have to "slow down" ~107,000 kmph to fall into the sun, how much do you have to "speed up" to escape?
It doesn't look like 'night' anymore.
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Agreed, would love to see some cites.

I work with insurance claims and post-marketing adverse event reporting data for pharma drugs, and I don't recall seeing anything resembling what OP described when looking at offlabel usage, but it's been awhile. (note: this is not EHR data, but it relates)

Anecdotally I've had a few off label RX's that weren't attached to any DX code in my EHR, same with my wife.

* edit: said 'you' vs. OP
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This is gonna be funny. Chinese are way worse at censorship of data that isn't supposed to be true than NASA... Though anyone who can't see through NASA at this point is an idiot.
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It’s not a “mystical field of study”, it’s called cybersecurity and you learn it the way you learn anything else, take books or take a course. Learn about networking, learn about malware, learn about social engineering, do you even know what a reverse shell is? Just learn.
> The other thing I suppose is where literally every employee gets their own office. But is that really a thing? Because I've never heard of something like that.

Maybe not an office each, but 2-5 people to a room, with real walls and a door? Absolutely.
The problem is that the only thing you can do is limit free speech, and that has far worse implications than just dealing with the trolls. Silencing people based on their opinions, however much you may disagree with those opinions, will lead always result in dystopia.
> Why do you want to go without a car so badly?

Car ownership (if you mostly just commute/shuttle kids) is not all flowers and roses. There's insurance, accidents, maintenance, parking, fueling, cleaning - not to mention the whole purchase + resell process that can take months.

That's assuming you like driving. I'd rather do better stuff on my commute or simply not commute at all (WFH).
Agree. It seems plausible that this just varies by personality: some people are motivated by announcing, some are demotivated (and probably some are indifferent).
My first ask would be just some help cutting through the jargon. I can guess from the wikipedia article, and general political context, that the "L/" and "R/" stands for "Left" and "Right", not "Liberal", "Reform", "Restrained", or similar.

But then what is "U/"? Utopian? Utilitarian? Unrestrained? Similar with "NRX", which I cannot even begin to guess at.
From TFA:

> When SIP was enabled—as it is by default—SIP worked as designed and prevented the change. When the protection was disabled, however, the file system was modified in a way that prevented Macs from rebooting.
How about we let people who want to work from home to work from home and people who need others arpund to work in the office ?

Win - Win situation. Unfortunately it seems too hard to understand for the majority of managers.. (most likely because they represent the later)
Because they’re money pits.
So what were the errors? All I caught was the index thing at the end, but I would think it would be more about going out of bounds since the topic is iterating over objects and arrays.

I also thought that looping over object keys using for in, although it does work you should also be checking to see if it object has it as its own property that you declared, or is that overkill in checking keys?
I call them "Secret Plans". You gotta save up the emotional energy and reward. On so many projects, you get the same neuro-chemical reward by talking about your project plans and how cool the result will be, as you do by making progress. By holding out, and only allowing progress itself to be a reward, and not just the talking, I usually get much further. The project may still die, but then I have something in my hands usually, and that's more rewarding than a bunch of people who think I only talk about things and never start/do any of them. . .
Good question! We're definitely leaning stronger on the hands on right now, but are looking to build out more on the math side. Our Dean actually has a PhD in Applied Math rather than CS, so it's in our wheelhouse. It's probably still going to feel closer to Olin than MIT.

You're right that it's impossible to do both at sufficient depth. Ideally we offer students flexibility to push in the direction they want to go. Eventually we'll be working with students who want to go deeper in AI/ML, or potentially other computational STEM fields - they may need stronger math. While others may want to stay closer to product development.

Either way, it's most important to equip students with the mindset and resources to keep learning. Learning should not stop in college, there's no concrete reason why either the math or bench skills can't be picked up later in life - apart from societal bias that tells us to stop learning.
The best presentation I've seen on BLE throughput is a 2017 WWDC session on CoreBluetooth [0][1].

Upping the MTU is "easy" on Android (you can do it, but I've had mixed results), but requires HID on iOS. In fact, you cannot trigger an MTU negotiation through CoreBluetooth, so that a single peripheral cannot take over the entire radio. If you control the peripheral firmware, you can obviously request an increase from that end.

The best checklist I've seen is in that presentation:

1. Use Write Without Response

2. Chunk your data based on the connection interval, so you maximize # of packets sent per interval

3. Negotiate a larger MTU

4. Use BLE 4.2 Extended Data Length extensions

[0] - https://asciiwwdc.com/2017/sessions/712?q=core%20bluetooth
[1] - https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2017/712jqzhs...
Before the above-mentioned buyout, OkCupid's blog used to have at least one article documenting this exact phenomenon. If you are not an 8/10 or better rated by women, you are fighting for the bottom 20% attractiveness of women, and EVEN THEN still have a low response rate.
There's a difference between open team rooms and the kind of office where there's a whole floor of a building with nothing but structural obstructions from window to window. The former can be very nice, the latter is awful.
So iOS?
Fluent Python is an amazing book focused on teaching idiomatic Python to experienced programmers.
sounds more like they had to put anti-piracy tech in their cheating tech
No it wouldn't, but I'm thinking it would be able to transfer some kinetic energy to the earth which would be a very very bad thing.
Ya, here's my story:

When I moved to a rapidly expanding city from my small town, some 15 years ago, rent was pretty decent. Real-estate was on the rise, then took a hit in 2008, but has been rising ever since.

Rent alone has gone up like 3 times (my first rented apartment, which cost $500 / month, now goes for $1500 / month). We used to joke that who in their right minds would pay $1500 bucks a month, unless the apartment was a complete penthouse...these days you get a 300 sq.ft for that kind of money.

After college I landed a pretty nice job - but I could not shake off the feeling that I was throwing away money on increasing rents.

Doing some quick calculations, I found out that I would save roughly $20000 a year on moving somewhere smaller. My job involved travel, so it didn't really make much sense anyway.

So that's what I did. Moved away, and have saved soon close to $100k, which I use to invest.

I visit friends in the old city every two months or so - a long-weekend tour.

My younger brother is in a similar position, and it's next to impossible for his peers to get a foot inside the housing market, unless you come from resourceful families that can bankroll your first apartment. So from what I've heard, it's indeed become a "life-hack" to simply move somewhere cheaper, save like crazy, and then move back - cash rich.
I think Max Tegmark, Elon Musk, and Sam Harris talking about AI risk and simulation theory is a case that brings that point home for me. I was reading Nick Bostrom's book at the time when those guys started making public comments about it. I thought the book was really interesting and thought provoking, but I wasn't fully behind it. Once prominent figures state a belief in something, it becomes a lot easier to take it seriously.
It'll be interesting to see how long this lasts without Apple kicking up a hissy fit over it.
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Lost in the announcement is the fact that they're opening this for global research because... they don't really have anything queued up yet. High-aperture radio astronomy doesn't really have a hook right now.

Arecibo was built half a century ago now, and ever since has remained (by far) the most sensitive radio telescope available. Yet... it hasn't found much that we didn't already know about. FAST seems likely to sit in the same realm: it'll be able to see known phenomenon farther away, but that's about it.

We have plenty of radio sensitivity right now, what we need is broader coverage to pick up transient things like FRB's, and (as always) longer baselines for VLBI work (e.g. the Event Horizon "Telescope"), both of which which mean more dishes, not one giant dish.
Open offices are a productivity booster for some people (myself being one).

Of course, WeWork being a company with one product, they try to sell it to everyone, even the people who it doesn't work for. That's a valid criticism of WeWork, but not really a valid criticism of open offices.
You could make multiple passes, if needed, gaining a + delta V each time by designing the orbit such that the spacecraft is on a transfer orbit back to PBH to make another pass. (If, as guelo mentioned, you did not at some point reach escape velocity of the solar system at that orbit.) It would be a very long wait between passes though...

Seems like a Jupiter gravity assist would always be much more practical.
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How can I reach you ?

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And the market for PHP developers is huge -- thanks to WordPress and legacy systems -- but the pay is much lower in most markets. Why hire someone who knows the fundamentals when you can hire someone who knows the fundamentals and your tech stack?
Looking forward to pixel 4 then :)
Along the same lines, they include pasta as an unprocessed food. Isn't that the very epitome of a highly processed food?
So.. containers.
While I share your same streak of curiosity, unfortunately this is an area of life that opening up details of your own operations is probably most likely always a net negative.

Get a TS/SCI and go work for CyberCommand if you want to be in the know.
If I am reading this right, we added 100k students got 3k new college ready ones? So 3%? Seems like we are grasping at straws here.

Or is college readiness trending down for other reasons?
>Honestly, I’m hesitant to go to HR about it in case it’s a religious/cultural thing

Oy vey.. do you know how absurd that sounds?
Thanks. I wonder if doing it under the control of a team like CERT could make it less illegal. Or, if there was a way for a company to publicly pre-authorize a non-prosecution agreement for 0day patch defense. Surprised I haven't seen more discussion about the idea.
One example is the Laffer curve economics theory with proponents claiming repeteadly over decades no matter how many times it fails that tax cuts will increase government revenue.
And yet, places like the New York Times write articles like this one saying that stopping having kids is some sort of solution. It's not.
> outside of the city driving is not bad at all.

Driving is getting awful anywhere near major metro areas, even the midsized ones. Every year seems to add another minute or two onto my commute due to the increase in traffic. I'm even commuting in the against traffic, meaning from near the city core to the suburbs, and it's borderline miserable. I can tell that things are much worse in the other lanes.

I don't blame people at all for wanting to forego driving. Population growth is clearly outpacing infrastructure capacity.
If it was what "any reasonable analyst would have told them would happen," why isn't it reasonable to assume that was the intention? Governments aren't single level actors - they are occasionally capable of subtlety - saying one thing even when intending another.
Ask HN: How do web dev bootcamps differ on prestige?
This question is directed towards folks who hire software engineers.

A friend is applying to bootcamps. (Literally asking for a friend!) I'm trying to help my friend out, so I'm trying to get a sense of what the difference in prestige between different bootcamps is.

If you were hiring for a junior web developer position and you were reviewing a recent grad from either A) The Flatiron School or B) Lambda School, which would you prefer? How strong of a preference?

(And is there any C) other bootcamp which would produce a strong preference?)
There's a balance that needs to be struck. Team spaces probably make the most sense.
Such efforts are contra-indicated by privacy concerns. You'd need to have everybody agree what we're happy to just let everyone see, then that goes in the cache, and anybody who wishes we didn't know that they've just looked at, say, the Wikipedia page for HIV regrets everybody else's decision at their leisure.

Anything you decide needs to be private doesn't benefit from this cache. So, maybe we can cache the little Y-combinator logo, but not anything anybody wrote? The Youtube help pages, but not any videos? It just doesn't seem like there's any plausible way this isn't either horribly invasive or largely useless or both.
I thought debt falls off your report after so long?

A perfect or at least more ideal solution would be a response asking for age verification and not ignoring the parents because it's not their name.
Something to think about (Flash coding a crowd simulation)
This is how the NHS functions and it has far better rates.
I meant I thought debt falls off your report after so many years.
Running shoes are typically only designed to last for at most 500 miles. It's just hard to make a foam material that can provide cushion but also not break down over time (and still not cost a fortune).

I think the best practice is to only use your running shoes when you run. Wearing them around town as you do errands just adds the amount of time you are compressing the foam in the soles. That said, the old running shoes still work fine for walking around after the 500 mile mark. They just don't provide much cushion to absorb impact.
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>This is something that is important with today's political climate in the west (UK and USA) as the right have as their leader someone who almost everyone on all sides agree doesn't command respect or behave as a statesman should. (and the left have lost touch with the lower classes, choosing instead to identify with the middle classes and their identities.)

I don't know where to go with this. Both Trump and Boris have the uncomfortable task of burning off the dead wood in society. The UK and the US find this the most difficult, the UK wanting to keep every scrap of wood they have, playing social musical chairs instead of getting on with business. The US gets all steamy and hot about China/Russia and tax returns but at the end of the day it's about money. This is our ww1 moment except without the destructive european alliance setup and proclivity for war.

Frankly they are both behaving as statesmen do. The younger Bush was a war president and lost the ability to speak in full sentences - whilst at war. He regained his ability to speak after he left the presidency. Nixon nearly refused to give up the chair. Clinton went out on "what the definition of is - is".

Trump's legacy is going to be that he made China pay him some cash and he didn't get into a nuclear war. Other than his explosive entrance and flushing out many things (right or wrongly) he has been much like other US presidents.

I get a display of quality in leadership is valuable. That'll come back in 2028.
It doesn't have to be that close.
Nice overview!

There is a draft [1] that would support Alt-Svc in DNS. Lots to consider there but it is being presented to IETF.

[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-nygren-dnsop-svcb-httpssvc...
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I'm not so sure - reporting things to the police without thought seems to end up with getting people killed in parts of the US.
> If done by car it requires a drivers' license, putting it several steps above zero-training

Outside of a few major cities with comprehensive public transit, having a driver's license is practically a necessity for survival in the United States. Driving is not a skill that elevates anyone beyond the most basic level of employability.
"PS. Did you know it is illegal in many places to ask for employees past and current salary?"

California is one such place.
Thanks for teaching me how tiny it would be. I had no idea!

With the gravity of a whole planet it would still attract a lot of stray matter. I don't know how many collisions that would generate though. Mostly just deflected orbits and captured satellites, I assume.

But surely a lot more than a "regular matter" 9mm pellet.
Thanks, I went looking for a previous submission, but couldn't find one. I figured if I posted it myself someone would provide the pointer.

I'll leave this here to capture other submissions of this source.

Cheers.

EDIT: Also, interesting to read the discussions there.
> I think I'd have a less negative reaction to open offices if it weren't for the attempt to sell it as a productivity booster.

But isn't that how you sell anything politically? Take some real or alleged positive aspect, blow it up out of all proportion, be loud and keep the pressure up, ram the agenda down all throats as deeply as it goes.
rsync - https://linux.die.net/man/1/rsync

I am having trouble finding the original "Show HN" for Dropbox but I recall people just calling it, more or less, "rsync with a web GUI."

Taking it one step further, you could use rclone (https://rclone.org/) which is like rsync but adds the functionality of syncing files with different cloud storage providers.

It has been on my TODO list to setup rclone with Nuage as the front end (https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage) so I can have a Dropbox-like interface with org-mode text file rendering on the go.
He's got 8 years to go until 18; doesn't unpaid debt fall off your credit report by then?
Improvements that happen on the margin are better than no improvements at all. You seem to agree that the new app-driven delivery jobs are better than before.

"Lack of good jobs" has always been true, but has also been improving over time.