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Gold is not inherently valuable. It's useless. That's why it was used to mint coins in the past, plus the fact that it's hard to get means counterfeiting is hard. Then people started attaching some mystical value quality to gold itself.

Debt, however, is valuable. It's a direct expression of things owed and I very much like being owed stuff. Especially when I can choose what that stuff is later at my convenience.
An optimistic view on the future ;-)

'As technology becomes more dominant in the workplace, here are the three job skills that you need to thrive.'

'Adapted from Humans Are Underrated by Geoff Colvin, to be published on Aug. 4, 2015'
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WTH is "truf"?
> You sign a contract promising to pay some Realtor's brokerage company 6 percent of whatever your house goes for

For comparison: NL is roughly at 1,85 (negotiable).
I attended a talk given by Michael Hayden that touched on this concept a bit, with regards to the difference in RoE in "meatspace" vs cyberspace.

An example he gave was seeing a cop drive by your house. Ostensibly that'll put you at ease, the concept that a law enforcement agency is patrolling your neighborhood. Maybe the officer gives a wave, or even chats with you for a bit if you're out washing your car or mowing the lawn. You feel safe.

How would this possibly translate to "cyberspace"? What if the local PD did a regular port scan of your router, or attempted to crack wifis while on their patrol? We allow searches of our belongings when we get on planes, but when our packets go overseas, we very much dislike the idea that someone from the government might be taking a look.

The rules, he went on to say, are simply different, because expectations are different.
Note that the 'improved' version does not cons a new tree.
Which makes Debian's return to FFmpeg all the more noteworthy.
Could you explain the last part? Are we talking about the inception of braces in programming?
This makes me think a direction worth pursuing would be to save the whole-program-analysis from the last compile pass for the new compile pass, so you can avoid re-analysing things. So you'd spend maybe 20 minutes on the first compile, then edit one .cpp file and the next compile takes 10 seconds.
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Unfortunality for FT, this article is sub-FOX NEWS quality.

It's based on Greek sources who are bullshitting FT with propaganda meant for internal consumption, but who isn't even believable in Greece.

It's a "Obama doesn't have a birth certificate" level thing...
> I don't believe the population will stop growing, ever.

'Peak child' has already been reached so I struggle to understand what you don't think peak population will follow.
Is this a co-working space? I think this was the previous home of Twitter, yes?

https://www.google.ca/maps/@37.782368,-122.400772,3a,75y,136...
The R9 Fury is for me and anyone else who's main machine is a virtual one. nVidia has locked out its consumer graphics cards from being passed-through to a virtual machine unless you buy their multi-thousand-dollar workstation graphics cards, while AMD lets you pass your graphics cards through to your VMs, no problem.

Edit: For clarification, if you want to use a virtual machine directly (i.e. not in a window or a virtual terminal on another machine running a virtual machine browser), keyboard and mousing directly into the VM and having the VM direct its output directly to a video card/monitor, you must "pass through" the video card so the VM "owns" it exclusively and the host machine does not. Regardless of whether you want gaming-level graphics or just basic VGA output, you need to give it an actual, real graphics card (there are exceptions with new cards by nVidia that understand VMs and let you "create" a graphics card out of a subsection of a more powerful card, but at prohibitive prices). AMD's entire graphics card lineup, from their $20 to their $700 GPUs will let you do this. nVidia's cards detect they're being passed-through to a VM and won't install the drivers, unless you perform a (risky) hardware hack or use their professional graphics cards that a) aren't designed nor optimized for consumer graphics card use, and b) cost at least an order of magnitude more than their regular graphics cards.
My heart wants to agree with Thomas, but I think we should remember this is a single data point and not generalize too hastily.
Accidentally upvoted. Boy, I wish I could take that back.
Don't get me started on that one, yes, it's probably even worse than automotive because these are 100's of thousands of legacy systems quite often without any security at all connected to the net. Obscurity is the only thing that keeps these systems working.
Use small flying nats or flynks.[0]

[0] Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c2239856-f56d-11e4-bc6d-00144feab7...]
Without a formal time for review, how will they build a formal time for pay evaluation and bonuses?

I can't help but think this is like the latest cell phone craze... yes, your bill drops down slightly, but you are going to have to pay for your next phone and when you do your bill will actually increase. Suckers.

Stack Ranking was and is fucking horrible. And getting rid of that for honest 360 reviews should be the goal. Reviews from your peers with project completion, reviews from your manager with year completion... those are both important and can help you grow.

Not to mention get a raise.
Typo, meant to be turf, as in "React tried and abandoned..." or to toss aside without explaination. Title was getting long so turf had the edge to express the tweet.
If only there would be a way to write a high level description of a web server which shomehow gets translated into assembly.. :)

Just kidding, nice effort!
No. 3000 words is unnecessary for his argument and 10-15 min. of discretionary time is material. Partially to blame, and as another poster pointed out, the article was lifted from a text and maybe not packaged for a blog chunk.

With that, the author spends 2800 words to offer guidance on topics among which <when to look up words in the dictionary> (really! that's a section in his post!) and then tops it off with two awful disclaimers that his advice to skim critically gets trumped if 1. you're taking a class requiring full apprehension and/or 2. your prof. has exacting standards.

I don't think a Swarthmore-caliber™ student needs a reminder on any of the above, let alone to hear this mess in 3000+ words. It's as simple as prioritizing your time across grades, interests, learning, etc. Priorities differ and depending on your goals, you can be expected to read/study/analyze 25+ hours a week for any given subject -- not just the "non-social sciences."
It would be cool to see a JSCity of JSCity itself on that page.
Kotlin interfaces are essentially the same as Java interfaces. But Traits in Scala are more like (slightly) restricted multiple inheritance. They can have fields, they can be stacked (http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/stackable_trait_pat...), you can restrict the types where a trait can be mixed in.

Value types are useful to enforce certain types which helps to avoid million dollar mistakes like the NASA made when mixing inch and meter as simple floating point numbers.

All in all I think, that Kotlin is a good example of the 80:20 rule. You get the most useful concepts and convenience with a low investment. Maybe Kotlin hits a sweet spot in the JVM landscape.
The libav fork of ffmpeg was primarily for technical reasons. Luckily those technical reasons have improved since the fork.
If you had already internalized the advice in this article, you would have spent 2 minutes glancing through the post to decide it wasn’t relevant to your needs, and you wouldn’t have wasted 15 minutes reading it or another 30 minutes arguing about whether it was too wordy on a forum for computer programmers.

On the other hand, since you seem not to have previously learned the lessons this post is trying to teach, spending 15 minutes thinking about the argument and then applying what you learn whenever you need to skim in the future could save you many thousands of hours. Perhaps you should be writing to the author to thank him!

Cheers.
Other languages also compiles to JS (even better than Dart) and don't require JS interop and they also highly usable languages.

What exactly is great in Dart in comparison with these languages?
If their "number one priority" is to be safe, they should pick a different line of work.

"I was in fear for my life" has become a justification for just about anything they want to do but it usually factors out to "I got scared so I just started shooting". Its hard to find that heroic.
I should have clarified I'm assuming worst case scenario where a cop shoots a civilian and kills them. The camera malfunctioned so the cop couldn't prove that for X reasons the civilian was a deadly threat then the cop is charged with murder and automatically convicted due to the video evidence not being there to support their claim and due to the civilian automatically winning due to the previous poster's proposition.
The Nexx 3020H is a great OpenWRT device.

* 400MHz RAMIPS CPU

* 64MB RAM

* 8 MB SPI flash

* USB A port

* dual 100Mbit ethernet

* 2.4GHz 802.11n 2T2R (300Mbit claimed)

There's even a Chinese build of u-boot that has a web interface for directly flashing the mtd partition that OpenWRT is on, so it essentially becomes unbrickable from bad OpenWRT builds.

You can buy them from AliExpress for around $14.50 USD in single quantity with free shipping. They don't have any GPIO to speak of (except internal UART pads) but for that price, just buy a cheap Arduino/STM/PIC board and hook it up through USB to the 3020H for all the I/O you need.
The fork happened for human reasons (management-related) rather than technical. See http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html and http://lwn.net/Articles/423703/
I agree but that wasn't what the previous post asserted so I was replying to their hypothetical situation.
Life in the Fast Lane:My Experiment with Intermittent Fasting for Health and Fitness
Amen. I would go as far to say Police should serve and protect lives, period, including, if not most importantly, those they arrest. Unfortunately being a gun society is likely what makes this impossible. There is a kill or be killed mentality. If the worst weapon we had was kunf-fu we'd hire Jet Li and be done (though he does appear to dodge bullets).
Can't operate in vacuum. Can't operate underwater for more than 3 minutes. Can only operate in a very narrow temperature range. Needs to shut down 8 hours a day.
I feel like I've read a pamphlet.

With enough enthusiasm most structural changes can be interpreted as politically driven to spin opposition.

Look at the stretch he made just to suggest Thiel might be sexist. Or that he somehow connects general libertarianism with the ignorance of copyright restrictions. (Which is just polemic and wrong. It's controversial and even Rand was a big fan.)

He believes it becomes harder to differentiate between Kim Dotcom and warlords? How out of touch is that?
This excuse ("bad apples") is getting pretty old. One anecdote can be discounted. Tens and hundreds of them in the past several years are a bit hard to ignore. US cops are bad. Face it.
Show HN: Make you own pack of cards SplendidSnap – Teaching Aid
Splendid Snap is a group card game. It consists of a pack of cards, with a selection of symbols on each card. On two cards, there is one identical symbol in common on each card. There will always be one and only one match of symbols.

I have built a website, (django & python) to allow anyone to make their own pack by supplying the raw ingredients of a word list or images or both.

The maths behind how many symbols on each card is fun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano_plane Code in github.com
Damn i didnt even think of that. Radar would return differently id imagine, but then you would have people trying to match an eagles radar cross section haha.
Even the wiki is a git repo, though there's no built in search like there is for repositories and issues.
Thanks, ill look into that!
The performance difference are a few percent right? About 10-15 FPS? I guess nvidia are still considered the best but that means AMD have to reduce prices, which is better for me.

Reminds me that the nvidia graphics card in my MacBook is going wrong. Hmmm.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of deliberate tampering. The tech is not flawless and this kind of outcome is really not fair to either side. The camera only shows 1 point of view and if for X reasons it is used to judge the officer or the civilian as the overwhelming evidence then it can have severe consequences for either or both sides if it does work or does not work.

Example: civilian makes grandiose claim that is untrue and that cannot be refuted due to the camera malfunctioning. Officer is punished.

Example: civilian makes legit claim that cannot be proven due to camera malfunctioning. Officer successfully convinced court that camera failed to work and it's nonfunctionality was not preventable due to outside circumstances. Officer is not punished and civilian does not receive justice.

Etc.
Hm, really? When I click on those links they all show me that they didn't find anything. Ok I see that google did find what I was looking for, I wasn't expecting that. But none of the other search engine did for me. I only got: "No more results.", "По вашему запросу ничего не нашлось", "No results found for site:http://nikolay.rocks How I Blog Now." and "We did not find results for: site:http://nikolay.rocks How I Blog Now."

When I remove "sites:" from the query then they all find this page on GitHub: https://github.com/MadRabbit/nikolay.rocks/commit/58a90810f1...

But that doesn't seem like a nice thing to read, I mean it is better than nothing, but to do that you wouldn't need your own domain and all the JavaScript.
Apart from the go binding, would you mind elaborating on what you mean by "neural* net surgery" and how you use it. Sounds interesting

* typo, I presume?
Changing the scenario slightly makes this seem far less absurd: you took a photo of the art piece while it was on display at a public gallery, then used your own photo commercially.

But that would be copyright infringement, not trespass. The CFAA charge is still unfounded.
Likewise how many cases were there where civilians filed complaints against officers which ultimately led to demotions, terminations, otherwise good cops not being able to get promoted, etc.

I'm completely 100% for the body cameras and for transparency but I also understand that they shouldn't be the only evidence used to decide guilt or innocence and should not hold more weight over other pieces of evidence.
Well I don't know exactly how we're defining who is and who isn't a third world American, but the reasons for poverty are a lot more complicated than being "ignorant".

Mental illness, trauma, stress, physical disability / injury, side effects of living in a bad neighbourhood / neighbourhood targeted by law enforcement, trends in the local economy, etc. are some of the multifaceted reasons that people and families end up in poverty.
Wouldn't you say Public Safety should triumph Officer Safety?
You can't usually convince anyone that they're wrong just by rephrasing some situation in a way that's more favorable to you.

"Right for using information freely provided by Google to help people find homes?" See? Now we have both found a way to describe the same situation in ways that makes it sound like two entirely different situations.
The Sandra Bland case is a study in dumb escalation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_While_Black

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/24/is_this_your_car_like_sandra...
I'm unable to figure out what point you are trying to make with the link to the Brown shooting, unless you last read that page several months ago and are unaware of the new information that has been added since then.
Can heal, can feed in many areas, can adapt and fork. Not designed for productivity.
I think a better approach is to give the same salary to an entire team.
The market for exploits is far cheaper than the cost of defense against them. It seems like firms would be better off hiring real black hats to make real exploits than mess with white hat firms.
Network effects: it's difficult to dislodge an entrenched competitor once they've accumulated a large enough dependent userbase.

However, a number of other services are chipping away at Craigslist, developing their own userbases in niches that Craigslist used to occupy. (e.g. Tinder)
Ask HN: What are the challenges to be faced by a bicycle sharing startup?
I have started working on my first idea, dont know exactly where to start I think. Getting to know about the challenges to my idea might be a good start. Need insights on bicycle sharing/rental idea for a startup in country like India. Where population is high and so is the demand
Alchemist v1.3.1 Is OUT Elixir Tooling Emacs Integration
It is very much application-dependent. For games they might be similar, but that's about it.

AMD cards tend to have much better integer performance, which is good for cryptography-related tasks.

NVidia has way more RAM + better float performance. Plus the fact that many libs only implement things with cuda as backend and not opencl, you are pretty much stuck with only one viable option.
Thanks, but no thanks! They've ruined an amazing product since the acquisition. I've been paying all the time for storage, then I was forced to stop paying, and now I'm not going back to chaos and lack of attention!
Right, and CL's lawyers would still be OK with the outcome because now they have established precedent for a million-dollar settlement of a lawsuit for scraping data. If anybody is dumb enough to use that open source code to provide a service that uses scraped CL data, CL's lawyers will be able to open with a settlement offer well in excess of a million dollars.
Why should it be Craiglist's data? The users wrote it, not them.
I agree, debian hasn't ran in 64MB for a very long time now. Just try launching 'aptitude' and /that/ will just explode in your face.

You can always swap on the SD card.?. >:->
That's true, in his example he makes a point of stressing that the foreign value is consumed rather than invested. But it's not clear that that's what happens in real life. For example, if China sends an excess of resources to "the US", and in return "the US" gives China shares or bonds issued by US companies, then the extra resources are presumably used by these companies in a productive way. (When a company acquires capital on the market, it is usually to invest it.)

BTW, it seems to me that foreign investment is always caused by a trade deficit, not the other way around. If the Rest of the World (RoW) wants to invest in the US, it has to acquire dollars. The only way RoW can acquire dollars is to sell more stuff to the US than it buys from the US. In other words, it has to be in trade surplus with the US. So the US has to be in trade deficit.
Good advice. I recently took the GRE exam (required for Grad School admissions in the US) and this article mirrors the advice almost all books (including the official guide) prescribe. When reading dense academic literature, you want to read actively and have an eye for detail, but at the same time, you don't want to get stuck on a particularly complicated sentence. You want to quickly gather up a few important things:

1. Context

2. Main Idea

3. Tone

4. Assumptions

5. Implications

6. Conclusion

7. Intent of Author
Well, no one will switch to ffmpeg – because the people who actually write most of the code you see in ffmpeg think the ffmpeg managers (admins? project leaders?) are assholes.

The whole contributor base – everyone contributing to ffmpeg – tried to get the project leader out of the project, but he refused. So these people forked ffmpeg – or rather, they took all the repos (which they owned), took all the CI servers (which they owned) and would have also taken the name ffmpeg, but the project leader owned that name.

It’s more of "one asshole vs. all the people writing the code he gives away" than anything else.
All I have done till now is tune to local FM stations. I would like to tune to AM SW stations all over the world. I think buying a 50 USD RF up converter is the only option ?
About the first, pentesting that gives access to secret board meetings through company laptops must raise some eyebrows. I am not sure that is legitimate pentesting, though.

About the lack of xss vulnerabilities that probably doesn't generalize to e.g. WordPress or bbforum software which are installed client side.
Nice try, poor logic.

What you call "people [not believing] in killing each other" is a phenomenon that calls for an explanation. I believe that explanation is simply that there's nothing to be gained from killing a desperately poor person. Appalachia (and other poor rural areas) have no gangs because there's no way to make a profit on organized violence. Gangs and the associated violence happen in cities because that's where some of the people, at least, have money that they can spend on drugs or prostitution or simply be robbed of.
Nothing of note for the analysis has changed.
From what I've gathered throughout discussions[1], React has seen some experiments with RxJS Observables (or something inspired by Observables), but they want to avoid the learning curve associated with reactive programming, keeping React beginner-friendly.

MVI architecture[2] in Cycle.js is derived from thinking about UIs holistically, and realizing how the user is connected to the application. The user gives events to the application, flowing through a thick layer of abstraction: from hardware (mouse) to operating system, to browser, to DOM, then finally to your application. Intent in MVI is another layer of abstraction between those user events and the program's state. The key here is to realize what is the source/owner of events: the actual human user. I think it makes no sense to think about events as owned by view components, it doesn't match reality. PS: MVI arch can be done with React as well, you can e.g. use document.querySelector().addEventListener() globally and remove events from components. This is how Cycle.js just leverages DOM events (and custom DOM events too).

React has tougher challenges though, since they want to contain both DOM and Native and whatnot event systems in the same abstraction.

[1] https://twitter.com/sebmarkbage/status/589966228938063873

[2] http://cycle.js.org/model-view-intent.html
This American Life: The DevOps Episode
Why did you pick that title then? You could have just went with something like Senior/Lead Engineer/Architect that implies you're still in a developer-like role. I'm pretty sure everyone would feel odd about being a VP of anything at a smallish startup :-D
This is the kind of 'shoot first' training American police get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfi3Ndh3n-g&t=01m30s
It is a little mean, but funny nontheless. One wonders, though, what they would have had to say on MS-DOS...
There ARE tons of boards between arduidiot and raspberry pi, just the range of STM32 based 'discovery' board is awesome, and in fact makes you wonder why people don't use them more.

There are also a lot of 'intermediate' boards like the Olinuxino boards (the ones with the freescale imx233) that are almost on spec with this, but /completely/ open hardware + software.

I'm personally very fond of this one, that can slot happily on a breadboard.

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLin...

Oh and I made a full Qemu port for the imx233, on my github:
https://github.com/buserror/qemu-buserror
"We may enjoy the Pepper robot, but we didn’t evolve to interact with it."

But the robots evolve to interact with us. Like dogs, but a million times better.