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Elon Musk/SpaceX Plans to Launch 4000 Satellites Providing Internet Around World
Paris tells Google to extend 'right to be forgotten' globally
The "and stop using so much" part is misplaced if you're really looking to the agricultural industry, of all things, to do that stopping. We need food and drinking water. We don't need green lawns and golf courses.

Not to say that water efficiency improvements in the agricultural space wouldn't be welcome, but rather that landscaping is arguably less important than even the relatively-unimportant foods, let alone the important ones.
One interesting factoid--women are easier on these trucks better than man. At least that's what the tour guide told me when I toured some of the oil sands a couple years ago.

But even thought women are better than men by being easier on the trucks, robots can be as gentle as possible. That is something that isn't discussed as much--robotic control can be as fuel efficient as possible and as easy on equipment as possible. Driverless trucks will not only save labor costs but they will be better on the equipment.
Reading the code, it seems the file is served on port 443 (HTTPS).
I don't think that streaming to YouTube is as easy as direct streaming to Twitch, maybe that's one of the areas they are focusing on.

Streamers will make sacrifices for their audience. If the technology isn't available to stream VR well then they won't do it.

What would be really cool is a game that supports streaming to YouTube 360, where it records a view similar to what the Jump camera rig does in real life.
LLVM can and will do it. It will assume it knows what a function named "memcpy" (for example) does and optimizes accordingly. (Look at TargetLibraryInfo.cpp and grep for LibFunc::memset in, for example, SimplifyLibCalls.cpp.)

(That said, I think TheLoneWolfling is being too strong with his/her claims. You can get modern compilers to avoid dangerous optimizations; it's just not for the faint of heart.)
You actually just need a reliable way to get information from them once plus a good cheat sheet (see above comment) on GPG. So, you both use cut and paste to (a) generate keys, (b) add keys, (c) send messages and (d) receive messages. Exchanging the key file is the only step that requires slight thought and there's a dozen ways to do that.

I still don't use or fully understand the web of trust model as I haven't studied it in ages. I do use GPG every night with the right person on the other end, though. Still don't know anything else about it. Don't want to, either.
This, I think, is single most damning piece of evidence regarding NSA culture. From the horse's mouth: they collect as much data as they can, not because they need to, but because it's interesting.
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Get to Know Your Aquifer: It might not be around much longer
> CA is one of 5 Mediterranean climates in the world, and that makes it suitable to grow all kinds of stuff that doesn't grow anywhere else. 2% GDP is irrelevant because you die without food.

You can live perfectly fine without Mediterranean food and if California stopped growing water-intensive crops it would cause a shortage of those crops, not a shortage of food.
this class was very informative http://startupclass.samaltman.com/
Your parent likely knows what it means; the message is no longer clear but the post it was in reply to originally said "random note". Your parent was simply a suggested correction, which didn't hold up after the correction was made.
Yeah it's covered halfway through. VCS that does merges wrt code structure rather than lines of text.
Would it, though? Wouldn't a distribution just become a specific configuration of source, binaries, and other data?
DHS is responsible for securing dot-gov, including their databases. It's considered a "federal civilian network".

USCYBERCOM is responsible for dot-mil, with the help of the NSA.
The methodology gives you the tools to have control over the cascade. You cannot avoid it entirely.

Edit: Also the point I was getting at was that cascade is a useful and powerful tool, just as the methodologies for controlling it are. We will also soon have a property that will eliminate the cascade entirely... all:unset;

I just think the problems and solutions listed in the talk are either non-problems or are things that could be solved in superior ways. And that it introduces more problems and limitations than it solves.
Consider automating your customer support with an SMS robot
This github issue explains why they won't deliver EV certs : https://github.com/letsencrypt/lets-encrypt-preview/issues/3...
> If you care about feeding the poor, give them money to buy their food.

Yep. Let's make the poor people dependent on the rich people for basic sustenance instead of allowing food to actually be affordable. Let's also marginalize the people who are just barely not poor enough to qualify for such a thing, because "well, sorry that you're barely keeping your family above the poverty line, but you know, gotta blame the farmers for being inconvenient to the cityfolk, and you're not quite as poor as this family over here so why should we care about your problems?".

Any system that depends on the arbitrarily-defined concept of "poverty" v. "not-poverty" is a non-answer to many lower and lower-middle class households.
At the first sight, I though it was a new version of https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ but it seems completely different.
This one:

http://www.mcuic.com/bookpic/200811516244620817.pdf

(Look at page 9. This IC is found in a lot of generic mouses.)
The money isn't in the ads or the subscriptions it is in the tips. I wonder if they have a system for that.
Some wag on Twitter pointed out that it should have been called Francisco Sans.
And if I push code with a bug in it that winds up costing my company 5 million bucks, it's extremely unlikely they'd try and take it out of my salary. What's your point?
A diff button appearing for modified comments would be such a great feature ... :)
I wish you luck, gogs is a very nice project. I hope the gogs + drone will become a faster alternative to GitLab + GitLab CI
> If this is your honest opinion, you'd be pushing for emergency triage of water allocation for agriculture. Specifically, reducing luxury crops like almonds, beef, and chicken.

I'd be fine with agricultural triaging, personally.

However, pinning the blame on almonds and livestock is misplaced (and, in the latter case, characterizing them as "luxury" crops seems misplaced unless you consider basic nutrients like protein a "luxury"). Instead, it would be wiser to focus on things like rice, which consumes absurd amounts of water relative to the amount of resulting food. I don't have any statistics on hand, but I reckon California's rice production alone dwarfs livestock (and possibly even almonds) in terms of water usage, and (I'd argue) would count much more easily as wasted water than livestock or nuts (since, compared livestock and nuts, rice isn't particularly nutritious).
I currently use Arch, but would like to switch to Nix.

A main practical issue is that Nix packages are often built with all possible options vs Arch minimal packaging philosophy. In practice you install something as innocent as mutt, and python comes as a dependency!
The logo they've picked is way toooo similar to Ludei's logo (HTML5 Games firm)...

http://is.gd/lUCdMN

Rip-off?
Wonder Woman used to fly a P-80:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fo_miq__gnc/Tt_1zSHQ8gI/AAAAAAAACv...

http://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Wonder-Woman-J...
Then HOAs need to die off already, simple as that.
> letting the price of water reflect its supply and demand.

Which would force a significant reduction in agricultural water use.
The $2 million doesn't have to sit around for 20 years in a non-interest bearing checking account. Put $1.5million in a 5 year CD and get another ~$50k/year. Give them other maintenance work to do while they are at the school turning on and off the heat, and it becomes more viable.
Props for making it a RESTful API instead of some custom wire format!
Why the wink?

I'm trying to figure out if your devoid of the nuance of open source politics, or if you're a huge risk taker.
They either exploited the system, or bribed some attorneys/h1b officers, it can be the case that India took nearly half of the H1Bs for so long consistently.
Is there a good library that does the same inside a textarea?
Though you need to manually visit all those pages. And it wouldn't be easy to traverse DOM with those server side logic/condition.

IMHO, do it offline and out of browser would be easier. But I also think doing it directly with the codes can be hard too since there are so many way that those css will be added to templates.
Other developer here. I've been running nixos as my main OS since about November after running Funtoo for a year or so before that. My tolerance for hacking on my distro is maybe slightly above average. ;)

On the cool side: Nix is the first linux distro I've contributed to, because it's the standard "hack, fork, pull request" process that most github-hosted open source projects use these days.

The biggest thing is that you absolutely have to drink the nix koolaid if you're going to run nixos. You can't really do the normal ./configure && make && make install, because paths to libraries are all non-standard. But once it all really clicks, it's pretty great.

As far as desktop goes, the rest of this thread rings true for me too: most of the important things are there, like desktop environments, window managers, browsers, etc. There are occasionally niche/older packages that are not available. If you're willing to learn a little bit of nix language, it's relatively straightforward to add most packages.
Who is talking a about companies? GP post is about consumers.
Damn, this font is glorious.

I often wonder if what appears to me to be a very clear cut in aesthetic standards between the 1980s and the 2010s is the result of my own bias (I was born in the late 1990s) or actually a thing. In fact, I do not find the difference between common fonts used in the 1960s -> 1990s as shocking.

What's your take on this? Do you think there has been a bigger and more drastic change in what people consider "aesthetically pleasant" between now and the 1980s compared to other time-periods.
Hopefully the Let's Encrypt client will be part of most server operating systems in the future, too!
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It's not a bigger slice of the pie than agriculture, true, but it's a slice that's much easier to fix.

This isn't to say that we shouldn't try to fix agricultural water consumption. Just that the calls to cut off agricultural water because "oh no they use 80% of the water" seem to reflect misplaced priorities.
You could be right. It used to be 20 for free, but I lowered it so that more people would actually hit the limit and get the "Go Premium" message. It's hard to know what the optimal number should be. For a while I had a split test running where some users had 5, some 10, and some 20 per day. But there weren't enough users to see a significant difference in conversions.
Well, "no less" is not always true. How many controllers exposing vulnerable interfaces are out there because encryption added too much overhead?
How to modify java classes in memory without restart
I hope you like this tool that allows to do nice troubleshooting and hacks with running JVMs
> You simply can't solve the problem by reducing urban water usage.

You simply can't solve the problem by reducing rural water usage, either.

The most feasible solution would be to build desalinization plants. California is a coastal state, and the majority of its population lives in cities located along said coast; pushing those urban centers to oceanic water will immediately free up that 20% of inland water usage, even more of which could be freed up by farms using oceanic water as well.
Ed25519 and Curve25519 are not encumbered by any patents, see http://cr.yp.to/ecdh/patents.html and http://ed25519.cr.yp.to/software.html.

You should prefer state-of-the-art elliptic curve systems to RSA and finite field DH.
How do you think VR will change streaming? The developer versions of oculus are already just an oddly rendered 1080p video stream; You can play back a recorded oculus video stream to the glasses, and it's a little weird because you're not moving your head as the perspective changes, but not actually that bad.

If you're looking for something more interactive, replay videos already exist for a wide variety of games, with the ability to change perspectives. Simply mapping the full system state to a local engine for rendering will allow you to view any perspective of the VR game character. You move your head, the perspective changes, but the 'body' of your character is still in the streamer's control.
Here is a really good documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpgmEvlRpM

Does anyone know any other documentaries about this topic? It's a fascinating event to study.
I interviewed with your company not long ago. The interviewer was extremely rude and rushed through the interview as fast as possible not allowing any technical questions from my end. Even the programming quiz was rushed and just a horrible experience. You have a really interesting product but really nothing else positive I can say about this place. I hope the interviewer just had a bad day and isn't like that to everyone that applies.
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Youtube already has that. It's called "Fan funding":

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6052077?hl=en
I really like the approach of cloning the repository and writing to the tests!
In that case, sounds like you probably want a wildcard. Also, if this is just your home system and you are the only person who needs access to these machines, why not use a VPN instead? Makes more logical sense, easier to configure, and you can do more than just webapps.
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My friend just started it and I've been using it nonstop
Could it be that they were damaged by the postal equipment? Envelopes with keys often undergo this fate too, unless you pad the key with something of similar thickness.
I find it mildly amusing how the linked page appears to be set in Myriad, not San Francisco.

Also, how in the world do you actually get to that page from the root of the Apple Developer site? It's not linked from the Resources page [1] (its parent in its URL), and it's also not to be found on the UI design resources page [2]. I'm wondering because I saw this font download (the new version of San Fransisco, not the Watch variant, which has been up for a while) referenced a couple times earlier this week, but never could find it myself until just now when it was linked.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/resources/
[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/
While technically correct on gov vs mil, the NSA isn't in the business of protecting us from cyber or terror attacks. They scoop up everything to protect themselves from US. The data they collect is for social, political and economic control and NOTHING else. Sure they release some of hacking signatures they collect from all their hubs to the private sector but the real purpose of capturing all the data is CONTROL.
> NSA has a patent on ECC ...

Wow, I was not aware that it was even possible for government agencies to hold patents.

Is there any reasonable justification for that?
I don't think seeing someones _eyes_ matters that much. Reactions are much more than that. One of the most popular streamers (Lirik) does not use a camera at all, so all you get is his voice and the gameplay.

VR itself is a bit different though, as not everyone will have Rift/etc, so either you are streaming to a very limited audience, or there has to be a way of capturing the footage before it's transformed, and even then, it's just one eye, so the viewers are missing stuff.
>Rationally speaking, the only people who should prefer interviewing to other things are the people that benefit from hiring talented people, which primarily is equity holders of the company.

I've actually been burned by this one a couple of times. Some people on the interview team recommended against hiring me. That wasn't because they thought I was a bad programmer. Actually, they were concerned that I was too good of a programmer, and they didn't want the competition.

Feedback from hiring manager: "I thought you were great, but some people on my team had doubts. Therefore, no hire."

If the interviews are conducted one-on-one in private, nothing prevents the interviewer from falsely saying that you bombed the interview.

That's one reason "Only hire if everyone on the interview team says yes." is a bad idea. Some people will say no to good candidates, precisely because they don't want competition. Only someone with meaningful equity in the business wouldn't have that incentive.
Maybe to prevent some private company from patenting it?

It depends on what one does with a patent. I would think making it free for anyone use, if that were indeed the case, would be appropriate though.
Riot already streams LCS on youtube.
California (specifically, the Central Valley, where most of California's agriculture is centered) is hardly a desert compared to pretty much everywhere surrounding it save for maybe Oregon.
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It doesn't feel, to me at least, as much that aesthetic standards have changed in general as much as that they've changed on computers. I'm not certain why, but I'd guess it has to do with various things ranging from screen resolution to font availability to marketing.

On the other hand, the "fun" of fonts like San Francisco ('84) might have partially worn off as computers became more integrated into our lives.

Many currently popular web typefaces have been around for decades. Helvetica, Avenir, Franklin Gothic, Futura, etc.
Is there a negativity bias here, do you think, where a bad week at work gets reported more frequently than a good week?
The other replies are missing barney54's point: that streamers wearing VR goggles will have their faces obscured.

Personally, I'm not sure this will be a big deal, since the VR content itself should be more interesting. And if you care, the lower half of the face will still be visible anyway.
It's almost scary to see how productive, focused and well versed Salvatore Sanfilippo is.

Most of the developers on my team struggle to build simple CRUD web apps, wasting long hours complaining about how wrong the Domain models is or how why this things is not in that place.
I'm much more interested in guix since it has all the same upsides but uses scheme instead of a weird NIH language, and it also has some standards when it comes to the licenses of the packages. (Nix disappointingly gives you the Adobe Flash plugin when you ask it to install Firefox, etc.) Still grateful for the solid foundation Nix provides.
A testament to how the early days of Apple was more playful like Google's current culture.
There was a brief era when the Mac came out in 1984 when bitmap fonts were the thing. I had a lovely ImageWriter printer that could print them all out.

Emigre was one of the early people to push design in that area. They still have a section on their "low res" fonts:

http://www.emigre.com/EFfeature.php?di=101

Through their fonts, and in Emigre magazine, the did spend a lot of time discussing what was aesthetically pleasing.

Then the LaserWriter took over, and postscript fonts became more of the norm.
Thanks, trsohmers. In theory, no major issues. Inferno comes with both a hosting mode (called 'emu') and bare metal implementations for numerous architectures. I've spent a good deal of my time porting the cross-platform hosted version to libuv. With a little careful hacking of the premake files to create a bare metal cross compile environment it would work. It's a decent amount of work. If you're really interested in that wait until the libuv premake version stabilizes for x86 and BSD/Linux and give it a shot.
Hey there, I'm really sorry you had this experience.

We're currently in the middle of overhauling our recruiting process -- the process you were probably exposed to involved an early technical phone screen with an engineer and was the first point of contact with our engineering team. This phone screen was poorly conceived, in that it seemed to give us bad information but more importantly it was too confrontational and unpleasant for candidates, not leaving any time for a real conversation. As a small startup growing quickly we're bound to make mistakes and this is one of the ones that we've recognized and are trying to correct.

Our new recruiting process no longer has this technical screen/call. Before any technical assessment we have a no-pressure conversation first, and also have one of the members of our demo team give you a live demo and tour of AltspaceVR (ideally with a DK2.)

We then ask candidates to perform a work sample exercise. We've spent a lot of time creating these work sample exercises to be realistic, fair, and hopefully fun. (And of course we are continually trying to improve.)

I'm again sorry you had this experience and I'd encourage you to re-apply if you still have any interest in working on the types of problems we are.
I think the argument is different today. It's not just one or two industries being replaced, and it's not just super skilled labour either. When computers replace our drivers, in australia, that's ~ 5% of people out of a job. That's just transport jobs, not including rental etc.

The Australian government predicts a 10% growth in that industry in the next 5 years. http://lmip.gov.au/default.aspx?LMIP/EmploymentProjections

Australia's unemployment rate is 6% - so that's basically a doubling of workers looking for jobs, from computerisation of one industry.

Obviously 5 years is too short term for automation of transport, but projecting further than that is a fool's game.

The fear is that automation will affect more and more industries at the same time, leading to structural unemployment. That's where a person's worth is less than minimum wage relative to the price of automation - people simply can't be trained fast enough because the industries are changing too fast and computer power is cheap.
What you're saying doesn't hold up empirically. And like they say, if it doesn't hold up in practice, how should we accept it as theory
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"Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the group—a young, decorated soldier. He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security."

Sums up the article in one paragraph.
Wow. That is incredibly half-assed considering how important it should be.

The contrast with twitch's system or with patreon or kickstarter could not be larger.
This is inspiring and encouraging, thank you :)
Why work if there's a guaranteed income? What happens when payouts exceed available money from taxpayers?