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The Movie You Should See Instead of “Interstellar”
On LinkedIn, a Reference List You Didn’t Write
They even seem to have a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkEnlightenment/

The whole "ideology" is basically just fascism and institutional racism dressed up as something else. Despicable. I would never use any software from some Hitler-reboot type of person. Don't empower and feed such people. They are usually narcissistic megalomaniacs who think they are fit to rule and tyrannize others.
It actually has toned down some, if you can believe it (at least in the Marine Corps).
This is one I fail to understand.

With radio triangulation that should be able to pinpoint the controller. I know most of the newer control equipment is using spread spectrum and frequency hopping, but I imagine that is a solvable issue.
Seconded. The whole HavenCo story is genuinely fascinating.
Well you don't want to lose either obviously. You don't go in there thinking you might lose the vehicle. We're not the 1950s anymore.
Material UI – A CSS Framework and a Set of React Components
The benefit I get from running OS X is "a unix-y system that is beautiful and maintenance-free." No worrying about drivers, sound systems, display managers, fonts and hinting systems. People who write software for this system tend to care deeply about adhering to the HIG. All of the ugly problems I run into with linux distributions are taken care of in OS X.

If I had money, I'd buy a real mac. But I don't, and this option is as easy as (and way more appealing than) running something like Ubuntu.
I'd second this. In general, Apple hardware is not terribly expensive for what you get (assuming that you don't value things like software, industrial design, power efficiency, noise, compactness at zero because you personally are not interested in them).

A Hackintosh lets you get combinations of hardware that Apple doesn't sell. It also lets you add or remove features that Apple doesn't offer on any model such as replaceable components and large/loud/inefficient machines. In many cases this does end up being cheaper because you are purposely choosing to use fewer or lower quality components.
> Everything else we did wrong

lol, implying completing "the illusion that everything was done in-house at the agency" wasn't wrong in the first place.

Anyway, I still can't imagine why people found agencies.

If I want to do consulting, I'd become a freelancer, this pays much better and there is plenty of work.

If I don't, I would work at a real software company that builds and sells software products...
> They are possibly vulnerable to being discovered when inserting data if the attacker knows what they are inserting.

If we go by the theory that compromising a single Tor user is not feasible, then connecting to the Freenet network through a fresh Tor connection every time you want to insert new data should make it a lot more difficult to find the identity of the person who is inserting this data.

I'm thinking here in the context of operating a black market, where new items are signed with the operator's key, and uploaded to Freenet, along with a list of all items on the market in question, also signed by the operator (with an increasing nonce).
In what universe is stand-up comedy relaxing??? My god I would be nervous.
Belgium chocolate maker ISIS changes its name after drop in sales
Quadcopters seem to be the platform that drove the highly advanced flight computers that allow anyone to fly the things. When I take my FCs out of acro mode even my 4 year old can fly them and not crash. They are being used on more platforms now, but the quads seems to be in the news as the front runners.
What a surprise, an army guy turns out to be a despicable asshole.
Yes, I get the feeling they'd rather spend their time building robots and not web pages. But hey, since they're really good at building robots, I think we probably shouldn't complain. In fact, maybe we can help them build the project as open source?
Bitbucket's UI is a bit clunkier than GitHub's, but being able to juggle free private repos and dual wield VCS is certainly good.

Another thing I like about Bitbucket is it far less gamified than GitHub. The latter pretty much has gamification and phony social interaction built into its core, whereas Bitbucket has less bullshit (while still retaining useful things like private messages).

In addition, another more cynical reason to use Bitbucket is as a middle finger to GitHub monoculture. Linus Torvalds once snarked about how Linux being written in C "keeps the idiots out". Using BB is also very effective at keeping the peanut gallery out and having less distraction in general.
Emacs Outshine
Von Neumann was a brilliant guy, and we owe him much about our profession... but I can't say I like him as a person. Or anyone who advocates preemptive nuclear bombing of a country "just in case", or because we don't like its government.

Come to think of it, I'd dislike anyone who advocates preemptive nuclear bombing of even the worst, most aggressive dictatorship in the world. There are people living in there, too.

I don't think survival at all costs, no matter what, is a worthy cause.
This article does a terrible job of supporting its headline. The conclusion was that native is better than web but web might catch up. The arguments that show web > app:

- mobile apps are bigger than web apps, incorrectly citing an article that claims an average of 23mb per app including games with retina assets

- there's a cost for publishing apps but no mention of hosting, domains, SSL, payment gateways etc

- apps need to be downloaded and may not run offline

- users don't like apps as they're bigger to download and have updates
Complementary Tools for ReactJS
Datacoup sells your anonymous data for real, cold hard cash
The page linked could use work on mobile (on Chrome on the iPhone 6)
This site lets you track your technology history
As a German born in 1985 I find the US far scarier in retrospect than the Soviet Union. For the Soviets, as for Europeans, it was very obvious that a nuclear war would in any case result in massive numbers of deaths locally. Even if they magically weren't hit, attacking Europe would have lethal consequences.

A lot of the historical "near misses" involved carelessness by the US or the US-led NATO. Plus the general attitude towards atomic technologies was far more unquestioningly positive in the US than in Europe.
Here for Android beta
How much damage could you do by loading a drone with aluminium foil stripes and dropping this onto the electrical equipment? Would it just evaporate before causing much harm? Are the distances you have to short to large for bringing the needed material with drones? Of course this is neither limited to nuclear plants nor to drones.
I think there is an 'uncanny valley' aspect to the science. The movie seems serious in its attempts to portrait the science (the cgi is very well rendered) but also has so many things wrong that it is upsetting (what is rendered makes no sense). I want to suspend my disbelief so I could enjoy it but it is so hard to accept anything about it except that it looks nice.
This file dated to 08-09-2004 is one of my favorites: http://www.cultdeadcow.com/cDc_files/cDc-0395.html

It's a long read, but worth it. A rather deep psychological and technical profile on how one boy grew up at the height of the BBS warez and hacking scene.
The 'seven dirty words', but instead of not being able to say them on television we're now not even able to text them.

You can text them. Just not auto-complete them.
I agree Dr. Strangelove is a great character, but I don't know if my takeaway from this is that the 60s were "an amazing time to be in a STEM field". My takeaway would be "STEM in the 60s had some brilliant but also cruel, paranoid and just plain deranged individuals that nearly destroyed the world"...
The inconsistency introduced by the magic shuttle craft ruined the movie for me. Using retouched Saturn V footage for the first take off is such a huge bait and switch.

Worse, the technology implied by the shuttle craft damages the entire premise of the movie. If they have that kind of power source and propulsion, they could build a huge orbital infrastructure, not just the one ship. A significant portion of Earths population could emigrate. They could build huge arcologies on the Earth.

And that was just the first problematic thing with the movie. The level of life support, the magic solar panel plane, and so on.
I've read about Windows SUA (and it's predecessors) but have never been sure what problem it solves for me.

Got a use case or two?
It doesn't even need a real firearm or explosive to threaten a power plant.

A 32 mm² copper wire with ~3m length is enough to cause a short in the high-voltage section. Two or three RC aircraft at the same time and you can potentially cause something like Fukushima by totally separating the plant from the grid and hoping that its UPS is broken...

edit: every HV installation and even most middle-level (5-50 kV) installation can also be targeted by this. Left-wing radicals are already burning cable trenches of the train service in order to protest against nuclear power (I'm serious, this happened yesterday in East Germany), it's only a matter of time unless one of these fools tries a cable-equipped UAV against a HV distribution station...
It might not be. But I am happy to ignore the question and leave it to the compiler or runtime to take advantage of easy parallelism. Maps allow that, loops (or any other sequential treatment of data) doesn't.

My personal brand of bigotry is relational databases, so I am accustomed to thinking of sorted / ordered behaviour as the special case. Thinking in sets is very powerful.

It doesn't have to be either/or. Sometimes you need a loop. But it would be nice to have mapping too.
This is very interesting. Are you suggesting that Facebook over Tor could be a step in the wrong direction? Official NSA Facebook partnerships are for now very unlikely, but I am interested to know how Facebook over Tor could in principle solve the user identification problem listed by grand parent.
History tends to spend less effort condemning the actions of those who don't start off with dramatic televised speeches about the people they want to eliminate and sign off with a World War involving almost every country worldwide.

Still, at the time, the actions of Leopold's men in the Congo were considered so evil that Leopold was forced to relinquish control of the Congo by his own government, and you won't find anyone willing to argue with a straight face[1] that the Congo Free State represented anything other than the worst excesses of colonialism.... even at the time[2]. If you'd released an info graphic depicting black people with their hands severed and white people counting cash 100 years ago, educated viewers would have got the reference. And probably written to complain that the administration of the Congo Free State was a far more complex and nuanced issue than simply "good guys" and "bad guys".

[1]Mark Twain did so with heavy irony.
[2]Leopold was even condemned by the British, whose monarch was a close relative and whose government was a Belgian ally with imperial possessions of their own covering half the globe, and an army fresh from conducting policies of mass-internment of civilians in the Boer War
Gitlab [0] has unlimited private repositories and unlimited collaborators. It might prove to be a good alternative.

[0] https://gitlab.com
9 Ways Social Media Has Shaped Our Lives for the Better
The author makes the case that the 2007 film Sunshine is a better alternative to the recent release Interstellar. Personally, I couldn't get past the implausible premise of humans attempting to reignite the sun with a giant bomb that's also a ship.
Wouldn't it be better just to use ConEmu and mintty? I looked at urxvt but the ConEmu+mintty combo had all the features I wanted and was more up-to-date than urxvt.
> You got the "hello" completely wrong.

Agreed.

We knew it too. But that wasn't the reason for our failure. Our sales pipeline was already quite full and so our focus wasn't on changing the pitch even though it was sub-optimal.

Instead we were trying to optimise the slow sales and onboarding processes as those were what held us back at that point.

It's the usual thing: We had limited resources, and so we prioritised based on what would achieve the most at the time. Even though our pitch was bad we didn't have a problem with populating our pipeline, we had a problem converting due to slow committee-based decision making and then onboarding an existing customised/bespoke forum.
One main reason I am considering BitBucket is that their issue tracking is more elaborate. There are issue priorities and components, which are essential for large projects. These could be shoe-horned into Gitlab using tags, but it requires third-party plugins.
This is what we had before IEEE-754. Instead of having a closed arithmetic system, exceptional conditions caused a trap (the "language-level exception" of its day). It was a terrible situation, and the direct cause of several "software-caused disasters" that you may have learned about in an engineering class.
But licenses grant (limited) rights, not take rights way.
AngularJS: CSS in JS
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You can walk into an Apple Store on most cities.
The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 specifies a blanket five mile radius around airports as requiring prior approval from ATC for model aircraft.

http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/HR658_020112.pdf
The risk is not completely negligible, no one actually claims that. However, it has to be weighed against concerns such as climate change and fuel security. Moreover, my impression was that in this case it wasn't so much that these drones present a safety risk, but that they are worried that they are being used to gather intelligence.
Now that's how it should be! Good for you.

We weren't blessed with such weaponry in the UK. About all we got was 12 gauge shotgun cartridges and anything we made ourselves. The latter included ANFO so we made up for it through chemistry. This was 25 years ago; doing this now would get you chucked in prison in 2 seconds flat.
Can't the UID mapping be cached.
Was it http://www.monasteryofstjohn.org/? I grew up there (the town not the monastery).
So how much $ did you make from this?
I am not a fan of those either, but they don't bring the audience quite so deep and prolonged into the case.
I will name your business for just $5
Why are code tutorials so terrible
Do the people who write the tutorials actually consult with the people who want to use the code? It is like every time I want to code something simple, the guides always have tons of superfluous stuff. Most end users have simple needs, so have tutorials for those. Consult end users and ask them what they want.
More importantly, investigative journalism is a call to action for justice, not a call to snuff voyeurism.
Can you share what things it gets wrong? I have been trying to look that up even since I watched the movie, but can't find anything useful.
One of my friends spent his teen years building those shelters. His mom was in the cult. Makes for a great story, in any case!
Perl 6 claims saner defaults. For the strict pragma, it's off by default for one liners and on by default for everything else.

A much bigger relevant change is Perl 6's support for hygienic lexically scoped "slangs". These can be used to relatively cleanly package composable dialects, DSLs, language tweaks etc. Slangs make it practical for a group to establish a default local policy (policies include anything from switching some language tweak on or off to switching to another language entirely) and for an individual programmer to extend or alter that policy in a cooperative manner.

Slangs aren't yet nearly as easy as they supposed to be, but they're getting there. A couple examples are v5 (which switches to another lang entirely) and Tuxic (a tiny idiosyncratic tweak to standard Perl 6):

https://github.com/rakudo-p5/v5/blob/master/README.md

https://github.com/FROGGS/p6-Slang-Tuxic/blob/master/README....
I think it depends on the tutorial. Michael Hart's Ruby on Rails tutorial is pretty awesome.
Exactly. A survival at all costs mentality can create exactly those costs. A self-fulfilling curse.
Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous
Religious reasons are just insanity reasons proxies through family and friends.
Google Maps / Street View and Formula 1 Tracks
I'm watching F1 from Sao Palo Brazil - so I thought, "why don't I go to street view and drive the track a few times". Well Google Maps doesn't have the track except for a bit of the Pit lane approach. The neighborhood around the track however is an embarrassment. I'd been having issues watching lately. I think I know a bit more why.
I really don't get the appeal. We already had styles inline in HTML, everybody thought that was a terrible idea (though it worked just fine, it was a bit harder to make changes but since you could generate HTML with code this only cost some bandwidth). Enter the style sheet and CSS. So now we come full circle and we're generating the CSS through code?
I struggled with the basic conflict: terraforming some marginally hospitable world? Ok. Rehabilitating this one? Impossible. (Alternatively, building an arcology in space? Easy once you can just get stuff up there. Building a few biodomes on earth? Not worth the effort.)

I can imagine situations where that might be the case, (unavoidable massive impacts maybe), but blight and lack of crop diversity don't seem solved by moving all the crops through space. (Or if they are, they could be solved by moving them into a biodome on Earth with far less effort / risk.)

And it's not like there had to be a choice between science and story. A discussion of super-habitability might have bought some science cred while waving off some of the above.
Detailed Cross-section of the Kowloon Walled City
Only because of inadequate language support (or, in the case of that Ariane 5, deliberately overriding the language support)
Tech writing is a specialty. It's a different skill set than coding. Unfortunately, it's the devs who write the docs these days and they're not usually good at it.
I belong to such a subreddit. It is forbidden to include any reddit username inposts to try and stop brigading (invading another subreddit en-masse and upsetting people).

We are regularly brigaded ourselves and have waves of mass downvoting. We just collectively find it amusing, karma is really not important and a lot of people use alts anyway.

We are often threatened with being doxxed although I'm not aware of any actual cases.

Our own users are fairly well behaved, as far as we can tell and the sub is the one i feel the greatest sense of actual community.
I'm not sure what you're trying to show with this photograph (it's of a deployed SWAT-style police team, with armoured vehicle) though? That there are incidents in the US that require armed response teams? The fact that you had to obtain a picture from a national news source, taken during an on-going crowd-control/rioting incident means this is an unusual situation, not indicitave of 'Police State America', and is just compunding the insulting comparision.

Try looking at photographs of city streets taken during a normal working day, and note the absence of APCs and riot police. A police state is a very different thing to the situation in the USA or the UK.
Jessie frozen, can Debian release before FOSDEM?
Wouldn't that only make it easier to confirm that this network/ip is associated with given hidden service?

This made me thinking btw about the latest hetzner hiccups which never happened before.
Love the effects, I would appreciate if the library was a bit easier to use however.
Seems like a lot of logic in script.js should be generalized in confetti.js

Great job
To get a flavour of Stoic philosophy you can listen to some short readings of Seneca's letters, they are only a couple of minutes for each one.

http://www.lettersfromastoic.net/
If you're using Facebook over Tor, you probably shouldn't be using an account that you created on an non-Tor connection or an account tied to your real-world identity.

If you are, and you're concerned about being identified... :/
Before accusing someone of being a "Hitler-reboot type of person", perhaps you should, you know, actually read what they have to say about Hitler. For example:

Since most people are neither historians nor philosophers, the fact that Hitler was on the extreme Right, and this Reaction is also on the extreme Right, raises some natural concerns. Again: the only way to face these concerns is to (a) provide a complete engineering explanation of Hitler, and (b) include an effective anti-Hitler device in our design.

—Mencius Moldbug, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/09/gentle-...

In other words, an explicit design goal is to avoid Hitler-like outcomes (because, duh). Thus, the accusation that he's a "Hitler-reboot type of person" reflects either simple ignorance—which you can fix by doing a little reading—or outright mendacity—for which, I'm afraid, there may be no cure.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone is logged in to Facebook while browsing over Tor, aren't you just one CSRF from getting all personal details for the user?
Read the wiki you cited. Before MS, eBay owned Skype and that's the transaction he's referring to.
I don't know how you survived Web 1.0 with all this struggle.
> There are still plenty of SoundCloud downloaders, and as long as the data is transferred it can still be downloaded.

A while back I was fooling around with their API. The "stream" you get is just an mp3, so downloading any song is incredibly easy. It's a shitty thing to do though. The artist will only get a single play out of it... and maybe they were trying to sell you a download. You (not you in particular, anyone reading this) might not sympathize with SoundCloud, but please act in good faith toward its users. SC users are changing the music landscape.

Trivia: the stream mp3 isn't the same thing you get when you click the download link. SC streams are at a particular bitrate, but the proper downloads are of the original file which could be an aiff or higher bitrate mp3.
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If you really dig Meditations, I recommend reading a couple translations side by side. They're all subtly different, and I find it helps me get a better grasp on the ideas Marcus was expressing to see how different people translated.

Here are some discussions on the different translations:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/137knd/survey_best...

http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/jaqm1/whats_the_best_...
Oh this isn't an organizational webpage.

This is the web page of an individual (a researcher).

As another commenter said, he is focused a lot more on research than building websites ;-)

If anyone would like to help put together a nice looking version of this I could help coordinate with you.

Looks like he's almost headed in the direction of a Kickstarter, which hasn't really happened in the scientific world on a large scale yet. If some designers could volunteer, we get rolling on building a real Baymax sooner!