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You haven't met enough people who are alternatively schooled and/or home-schooled. Plenty of outstanding, high-performers who probably aren't wearing their Homeschooled! arm bands that day.

Most everyone, given enough time away from homogenizing environments like public schools, becomes increasingly differentiated from the norm. They find their tribe and grow into that niche instead. Then, when tribe members cross paths outside their tribe, people sense something "off" about the other.

This is very good work in this space. Rebirth 338 was the bees knees tipping point for virtual analog on a PC. We have been seeing numerous things that hint at the direction of where things can end up and this is a good way to establish cred for browser-based audio generation.

Generally good piano roll implementation, controls. It'd be nice to have a master fader and possibly a compressor amongst the effects implmemented.

I'd also love a swing parameter.

Something I've noticed is that knobs with a touch screen can be rough since your digit is covering the visual feedback. Maybe a single vertical line indicator next to the knob could mean you would know where you are and how far you can go when tweaking one?

Ahhh... the days... I remember fumbling through something very similar to this and the time I spent in MainWndProc once the application became significantly complex could be awfully frightening for a noob like me.

First, I'm all for AI-based transportation solutions, but why does it seem like there aren't nearly enough redundancies being considered? There are just going to be competing proprietary solutions?

In the US, the NHSTA should get ahead of things and push for open standards and potentially for some level of development of standard safety features like being able to set some form of material or device on objects to mark them in ways that can transmit specific information about objects like other cars, fixed structures, etc.

I could make 10's of millions selling stickers or paint additives that would mark a human-driven car's edges to help "protect" it from automated vehicles' AI.

Two things. "Brave" = risk and cost/benefited to death decisions that a bunch of people don't understand

Generally speaking... Apple sells iPhones, Microsoft sells software

The overlap of their profit centers is minimal. Comparing perceived corporate personalities is your click-bait for the day.

If you can garner the votes in the legislature. If a majority of the house files charges, 2/3 of the senate has to vote in favor. The house seems likely, but it will be the drama of the century to get through the senate going ahead with it, etc.

In the current climate, unless a big group of Democrats in the house side with the Republicans on the charges, it can sloughed off as partisan BS.

We'd also probably need some pretty crazy info in those emails to warrant the sharpness of public invective necessary to have a clear political mandate to go through impeachment. It would have to include some of: large scale impact to national interests, beyond-the-pale vile political conspiracy, dick pics of Bill Clinton, or a clear statement of explicit, willfully avoiding public disclosure of the topic of discussion (of particular national interest).

I see the narrative being around "sour grapes losers" and "can't win, can't govern Republicans."

Well, that's his side of the story. Burning bridges publicly while signalling that you are difficult to work with is a twofer. Classy. Subtle. There are 8 people who have any second thoughts answered, and likely two others who might not abstain if given a second chance.

Life goes on. Pick up your pieces and build a new dream. Don't stand on the bridge you are burning.

If PV wanted their stuff taken seriously at this point, they would always offer full videos for actual journalists to review and edit. They could license the content and amplify the impact of their work. Instead, they do a hack job to fit their purpose.

I'm not going to get into parsing the video you watched, but the source raises monumental red flags when it comes to any sort of journalistic integrity. Project Veritas is the same folks who did the widely discredited hack-editing to swat at Planned Parenthood and ACORN. They are partisan hacks well-understood to be either the pot or the kettle.

To your point on American, entrenched parties controlling and applying many of the levers of power, that is mostly a forgone conclusion. The only way out is for one party to splinter cleanly and then the other could as well. The parties seed, raise, and harvest grist for the mills to feed the party itself.

I would suggest massive voter fraud is not feasible. There are many quality checks that limit the potential. There are disconnects in how many Americans think about the registration and voting process which, when played out, inspire suspicions or contempt. Busing voters, encouraging political engagement from the religious pulpit, etc. We have or can get the data. Between census, voter roles, etc. Fraud can be detected and surfaced - but it rarely is.

Also, all sober reviews of voting has supported the argument that the ID issue follows the narrative that one tribe is trying to apply ID laws to disenfranchise to their benefit and the other is trying to enfranchise to their benefit. Nobody stakes a purer claim to virtue on the matter. But, in a democracy enfranchisement > disenfranchisement, so in this case, Democrats are in closer alignment with the spirit of democracy.

In terms of how and why voter ID is being used in recent US cycles, review North Carolina where they collected and applied data on voter access to certain types of valid ID (there are multiple) and then applied that data for max political effect. It's a turf war. You won't find Republicans arguing to hand out voter ID's or making it trivial to get them. Just picking certain forms of ID to make it more cumbersome for certain people to vote.

The author says "hundreds of thousands of letters issued each year"

Anyone have a reference for how NSL's are estimated for the "hundreds of thousands" reference in this article?

It seems more like ~20-30k/yr at this point from my cursory search.

I interpret "hundreds of thousands" to imply 200k+ which made me think... dayum - that's a lot of fear.

This was a warning shot to other muni's in NC capable of adding another angle of attack against the entrenched monopolies of internet access there.

If Time Warner didn't win this one, they know the cities of, and suburbs around, Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham could start tearing away customers.

Removing the context makes it seem small. The game was far larger.

The potential impact of a hacking crime is massive. Millions to billions of dollars and a real impact on people's lives for well over 2-3?! years. If someone suffers identity theft, invasions of privacy, etc. the direct impact could easily go beyond a few years and secondary impacts almost surely would.

The sentencing guidelines make available remedies for those cases - and I can imagine large scale attacks which should be punishable by life in prison.

Do the merits of this case warrant max staycations in prison? I dunno, but the government should have the flexibility for the lulz.

Can someone school me in why we don't just throttle login attempts (each fail extends time to next attempt exponentially) and put an attempt cap that requires password reset?

I'd rather they actually mod it so the switch is removed and the circuit hardwired. I imagine someone beating up the "stuck" switch and breaking the circuit/mic altogether.

I have owned multiple pairs, and still use one for my main work. The bass and treble roll-off isn't great for mixing and mastering, but it's a truly great value for the money for most monitoring uses in performance. It's better on the production vs. consumption end - where people like all their colored sound.

It's like the NS-10's of the headphone world. Well-understood and consistent, while offering a great average, flat experience that translates well over the air.

Flip the question. Am I being a good developer if I'm not Googling it?

You are a creative problem solver. You have to understand your problem and put together a solution. Within defined constraints of time, budget, and quality, you must solve your problem.

Solid understanding of good developer practices and general algorithm or application design principles marries WELL with talent in processing information from the web. Bringing them together, you get past "solved" challenges in completing your current task or project done.

I'd argue that being adequate at both is better. Relying too much on either facet is worse than being good at both with a talent for bringing the two together.

Ack. A jittery gif amongst the content. Had to cut out at that point. NPR stations could adapt to the digital shift in content distrubution without a painful disengagement from existing contracts. It just needs the incentive to go through the process.

This wreaks of elitism. Media is not consumed, nor as influential, as you are suggesting. Never denigrate the intelligence or incentives of others. To dismiss others' intelligence, experience, and/or process for developing their preferences, you miss out on understanding their motivations and needs. You may miss out on opportunities to develop friends, family, ... or customers.

Despite not having a deep warm-fuzzy for Trump or Hillary (thus increasing their favorability ratings), they represent something to their acolytes. It makes sense and defies scapegoats like "they are media sheeple!"

The vendor knows that if someone WANTS a non-windows PC, they are going to be willing to pay more, so the price goes up. They also are implementing a whole new process for a small set of customers which increases their costs. They pass those directly on to the consumers with the need/want. It's the special flower luxury tax.

They won't fly off the shelves with all that added, unnecessary weight or cost. Oi vey.

That doesn't sound like the relationship Miguel and Nat have cultivated with .net or MS, and they could have continued on saying "No." Xamarin didn't NEED MS beyond what it already provides openly, everywhere (.net market support both technically + marketing)

I'd almost be surprised if there were previous formal offers as I'm pretty sure the discussions between Miguel and various MS folks, especially Scott Gu, were frank, open, and mostly trusting. You don't throw out formal offers if you have Xamarin openly talking through why they don't feel the time is right.

My take is Miguel and Nat have always been "do right by the technology first." They danced the line with mono and old MS. They then made a compelling step towards where MS would head a few years prior to MS being able to start showing progress in that direction.

Don't bring facts to the piss on Skype party... This is 100% true. I worked at a state university. If someone was running Skype, because of the algorithm for determining such things, our users all became supernodes on the Skype P2P network which pummeled the network.

They eventually banned Skype on any machine connected to the network with prejudice. This impacted international research projects as Skype had been saving a ton of international comm. money to that point.

And, as usual, those who have a gripe are loud. I use Skype every day and I am never able to feign like I don't get messages from people. It never drops and it hits three devices at once. My digital leash serves its masters just fine...

If one event happens 1B years ago 1B light years away and another event happens at .5B years ago .5B light years away... how would we know there are two events?

I'm a clinical research ex-data-minion.

In that research context, it can take teams of 10's to 100's years to establish a usable dataset which can win grant money to both serve patient populations and reinforce the long-term sustainability of a clinical/academic institution.

You bet your ass that data isn't going to be given out. It's not about covering your ass. It's about stewardship of data which has been culled via consent from participants, often of a very sensitive nature, with specific and explicit limits to how it will be used, managed, and shared.

It's a gold mine that was built from years of getting at the forefront of a niche and then racing year after year to stay there.

The gold from the mine isn't used just to line someone's pockets or add lines to a CV. That gold often is used to provide in the treatment of people who would otherwise be left to the whims of state legislatures that play political football with Medicaid and funding for health services for underserved populations.

Also, from my experience, investigators sitting on good datasets often WANT to share them for use since it establishes increased value and bodes well for future grant competitiveness. Here again... bring your credentials since you are being privy to something bordering on sacred. When I see a term like "research parasites," I know who they are talking about, and no, they are not going to be accepted as a collaborator. It might be a lack of any facet necessary to carry that data stewardship at or beyond what the originator has done - and that is not something you easily demonstrate outside of the existing systems.

Relatively old and unhelpful news which begs the question...

Why was the article produced and disseminated? Why now? Why with the noted quality issues?

Fishy

"It's different this time."

Said every time.

Of course the details of the crashing waves are different, but the tide is the same every time.

The big transaction networks are so heavily invested in their own system and the effort to integrate is such that the likelihood seems quite low. Had the foundations of bitcoin had as a primary goal industry transition to using it, it would have become a stronger disruptive force. Upfront integration costs are on the scale of concretely-estimable billions with the any long-term rewards ambiguously-estimable. The certainty is that is divests control and related control of the transaction network. Where's the value to the existing network that reaps the transaction fees?

It made some inroads, but a future alt-currency alliance would need to find very forward thinking technical leadership from within the entrenched industry willing to put their names into efforts of such an alt-currency alliance. Those players would need buy-in from the business and political wings of their organization. Where are the CEOs at banks and transaction network players who feel moving to a non-sovereign currency makes bottom-line sense?

Finding such value and leaders seems unlikely due to political relationships that the entrenched financial industry has. Put your name on an effort to remove oversight and control of the nations whose central banks you presently need at your own risk.

Unless the banking industry gets burned like the tech industry has in terms of the Snowden revelations and popular movement around privacy, there isn't an obvious self-interested basis for taking on this sort of risk.

This was written as if it were an intro to Humanities applications of CS to a math/CS academic. Not the other way round... was that intended?

If the target audience for this is someone from the humanities field with little to no experience in programming languages and environments, the ramp in this tutorial is very steep.

What a horrible way to determine if people are being forced out... compare the rate against a worse situation.

We noticed that people with HIV died less frequently over the time period than people with HIV and stage IV cancer. Therefore, there is no HIV problem.

I guess they are getting the eyeballs the wished for to read through this flame-bait.