I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I took Latin and Greek in High School and got A's and I guess it helps my vocabulary but I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. I keep hoping to get time to study one of these - probably French because it is the easiest. I did Duolingo for awhile but didn't keep it up. Mark Zuckerberg amazingly learned Mandarin and did a Q&A with Chinese students - incredible.
JEFF GOLDBLUM.
VIA PHONE.
Richter-scale charm.
EDIT: Also, Antonio Banderas told me a few times that I sounded "tall and beautiful" which I thought was hilarious.
We know how Republicans feel about protecting Internet Freedom. Is Internet Freedom an issue you'd push to add to the Democratic Party's 2012 platform?
I know it’s been ages since /u/le-click began this campaign, but I finally have an answer for you. Hopefully it will be worth the wait: https://www.ageofempires.com/news/announcing-age-empires-definitive-edition/
The Bible [to learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself]; The System of the World (Newton) [to learn that the universe is a knowable place]; On the Origin of Species (Darwin) [to learn of our kinship with all other life on Earth]; Gulliver's Travels (Swift) [to learn, among other satirical lessons, that most of the time humans are Yahoos]; The Age of Reason (Paine) [to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world]; The Wealth of Nations (Smith) [to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself]; The Art of War (Sun Tsu) [to learn that the act of killing fellow humans can be raised to an art]; The Prince (Machiavelli) [to learn that people not in power will do all they can to acquire it, and people in power will do all they can to keep it]. If you read all of the above works you will glean profound insight into most of what has driven the history of the western world.
To me, this story is not just the story of a ten year revenge plot, it's really the story of all conspiracies. You know we live in this world of conspiracy theories (I happen to live in Austin, the hometown of Alex Jones) but few actual conspiracies. But any student of history knows that the world often pivots on something a few people cooked up in secret. So to me, this book was a chance to tell that larger story. The fact that Thiel was willing to go on the record and explain his process was, in my view as an author, an unprecedented chance to lay out how power really works in a way that few have been able to before. It's ironic, Gawker's informal motto was that they showed "How Things Work"--the story behind the story. But in this case, they missed what was actually happening. So did everyone in the media. What I tried to do here was step back, take judgment out of the picture, and show what went down and why. I think the book captures that, but ultimately that will be for the readers to decide.
My favorite book at the moment is a book called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by professor Kahneman, which is a book on how the brain reacts in instinctive and often illogical ways to stimuli. And it explains things like why we would vote for a presidential candidate who could destroy our country.
The election of Modi is a very interesting development in Indian democracy. We have released many interesting documents on Modi's ascension to power, you can see them here: (just search for 'Modi') https://wikileaks.org/plusd and https://search.wikileaks.org. From these materials it's clear Modi can be most accurately described as a "business authoritarian". Whether Indian needs a stronger centre to compete with China is an open question. Inevitably strong leaders make mistakes and eventually lose their faculties. Other than his extensive big business alliances, I think it is an open question as to whether Modi will bring more good than bad to India.
If he really did that, that's fucking brilliant. These links might explain:
Here’s couple of things everybody should do:
Use a password manager. This will solve tons of other problems for you, as you will automatically have a unique strong password on every site. I prefer password managers that do not store your passwords in the cloud, but keep them locally encrypted on your own devices and just use an encrypted sync to keep them updated on them.
Sign up for data leak notifications on Have I been pwned. This free service will email you right away if your email address is part of some data breach - such as the recent Yahoo breaches (or, say, Ashley Madison). The service is run by Troy Hunt and it’s trustworthy.
Use a good VPN to secure yourself while using wi-fi networks. Without a VPN, it’s trivial for anyone else using the same wi-fi to see big parts of your traffic. Use a VPN on your laptop, on your phone and your tablet. I like VPNs that enhance your privacy by also removing tracking cookies and other potential breaches of privacy. The added benefit of this is that browsing becomes much faster - it’s often faster with a VPN than without!
Lastly, make a backup. Then make a backup of your backup. Backup your laptop, backup your phone, backup your tablet. And back them up so that you can recover your data even if your house burns down. Because sometimes your house really does burn down, and sometimes you are hit by encrypting ransom trojans. Our lives and memories are on our devices and they deserve to be backup up.
In case OP doesn't reply:
Hitler did, in fact, fix these problems to a large degree. The KDF and DAF ensured that everyone who wanted work, had work. A lot of people were drafted into the army, and sections of the army was used in road building and public works projects. Hitler also started rearmament in full force, which meant a lot of industrial output and more jobs in the industrial sector.
There was, however, a fair amount of shady accounting going on. Undesirables, such as handicapped and disabled people, gypsies, Jews, were not considered to be official German Citizens, and were often not considered in the context of the surveys for employment. This led to far lower perceived rates of unemployment than was probably true.
The Tim Mason argument also goes to show that the German Economy was close to imploding due to a number of economical and political factors. While I don't think that's why Hitler went to war (which is what Mason suggests), it does give insight into how far he went towards fixing the issues that Germany had.
Source: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Functionalism_versus_intentionalism
This is a good question. Essentially, unless you are located on a ship 100 km offshore, you will have to fall under the jurisdiction of some country and must follow the laws of that country. Almost all countries require companies to assist in some manner in criminal investigations, and Switzerland is no exception.
This is the reason why the choice of Switzerland matters. In Switzerland, we have intentionally picked a jurisdiction where we believe there is a strong cultural and institutional respect for privacy, which extends both to the laws and the behavior of the courts and law enforcement. This means that in the example that you bring up with a journalists or activist, it is rather difficult to get a Swiss court to consider such a person to be a criminal.
In all cases, our legal team also reviews all requests and will also fight certain requests that we believe may be improper. In the event that a court order does get approved, we are also quite limited in what we can provide given our policy of collecting as little user information as possible, and using zero access encryption for all emails stored on our servers. Full details about what we can provide can be found in our privacy policy: https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy
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Well, prior to that, when I would bring up reddit AMAs, people were sort of still at the point of "Hmm, can you explain that some more?"
When I pitched Gerry and his team on doing an AMA, he was like, yeah let's go for it! So we set one up and I will never forget the energy of that AMA. It was like being in a concert. You literally felt the energy of all those millions of people asking questions all at the same time. It was electric. He was really, really inspired by it, and so was I. And so he taped that thank you message. And the rest is history. People started to "get" reddit and why I loved it so much.
He switched parties after he was elected governor of Louisiana. The people voted for a democrat, then he became a republican. Buddy Roemer campaigned on making education a priority, then he spent most of his time bringing in video poker to the state instead. Louisiana had the only gambling deal in the nation at the time with no specific money earmarked to stuff like education. Roemer was so bad he ended up losing to one of the most corrupt politicians in modern history, Edwin Edwards (who just recently got out of prison) and David Duke, ex-KKK neo-nazi white supremecist. Yes that's right, Buddy Roemer couldn't even get in a runoff against a KKK imperial grand wizard as an incumbant seeking re-election!
In all likelihood, his anti-PAC, tiny-contributor stance is merely circumstantial. He has sold out so many times he has no real allies on either side and nobody wants to give him money, so he's repackaged that as some kind of idealistic stance.
Here in Louisiana, whenever I see some old lady pouring her money into those annoying video poker machines, I think of Roemer. That's his legacy. And we still have one of the shittiest educational systems in the nation. I worked on his campaign because I respected his desire to want to make education a priority. That turned out to be a sham.
Edit: Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Roemer
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TjQdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ViwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5904,3378123
Ok Friends, thats 2 hours and 12 minutes. I'll come back later and answer more but now I have to go wash myself. Please check out "Wish I Was Here" this weekend. http://www.fandango.com/wishiwashere_171788/movieoverview
If you've liked my other stuff I promise you will like it. If you haven't, maybe give it a try... this might be the one that converts you. I'd like to end this AMA like I end all things in my life; with a brief message from Hooch:
Totally depends on each person - some folks like to share the computer screen with me (Elijah Wood, for instance), others like to read the questions themselves and dictate their answers to said questions (i.e. "I like this question from SeniorPoopedMyPants - can you find that one? It was something about my favorite video game!"), and still others like me to help them navigate it because they can't look at the screen (For example, Ron Perlman was driving around Los Angeles during his AMA and talking to me on the phone so I was reading him questions).
That's one where I spend a lot of time. Google's backend matrix here is a bit more complex but will get you even better results: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Once you find a cheap fare on google there are a number of other places to look to make sure its genuinely the best deal. Momondo.co.uk picks up fares from the cheapest agents.
Another option for those that are VERY flexible with the amount of stop-overs is lesser-known kiwi.com. They search a lot more options for each route than even Google and Skyscanner does. The deals I send out tend to be a max of 1-stop unless it's a vastly discounted fare on a 2-stop long-haul.
Also highly recommend the fare alerts on skyscanner.com. I have about 1000 of those set up so far :)
EDIT: One more - if you're booking with a foreign airline, always log into their local sites to see if you can get a cheaper price that way. They often will offer lower prices for locals, but it is perfectly legal to book using that method. A VPN connection is a good idea when looking at local sites. You can try tunnelbear, which has a chrome extension.
Haha!
Aw! Well when Elijah Wood did his most recent AMA he was actually really sick, poor kid, so I gave him advil and orange juice and tried to help him through it. He was a trooper.
ALSO: he recognized me from his first AMA. which was really sweet. You have to consider the fact that celebrities meet thousands of people every year.
Read 'On Writing' by Stephen King and 'On Film-Making' by Alexander Mackendrick.
Just try to power through the first draft. it'll be shit, you can rewrite it later (you WILL rewrite it later)
Try Scrivener
ONCE YOU KNOW WHAT THE STORYLINE IS, write the first draft standing up. You waste less time because it's slightly uncomfortable.
Probably loads of other advice but that's off the top of me head.
10% of all Reddit users are Indian, the second highest number after Americans, the third highest contributors to Reddit are the Canadians who contribute only 5% of total page hits.
There are a lot of us online mate.
Check out Prism Break
basically has free and open source alternatives to the NSA-compromised software most of us use on a daily basis.
Also support the EFF, they're fighting for the same cause Snowden is.
Edit: Thank you so much for the reddit gold, anonymous Redditor!
Mindfulness can help. I just interviewed a survivor last week: https://www.sexwithdrjess.com/2019/07/sex-pleasure-after-sexual-assault/ She has written a practical, non-clinical handbook based on her experience: Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault https://www.amazon.ca/Want-Recovering-Passion-Pleasure-Assault/dp/1633539644/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Want%3A+8+Steps+to+Recovering+Desire%2C+Passion%2C+and+Pleasure+After+Sexual+Assault&qid=1563397887&s=gateway&sr=8-1
We had a team karaoke event and some of us convinced one of our dev managers to sing "Barbie Girl" with us. A few months later, he went on an extended vacation, and we took the opportunity to upgrade his office to a Barbie Princess theme:
https://imgur.com/2xcvdeF https://imgur.com/9EG8YDI
-Nell
I recommend reading a book called "Clean Code", it helped me a lot. It's impossible to work with people that have different coding practices, and this book introduces you to everything you need to know.
J.K. Rowling has boxes of notes of backstory for her characters. On the other hand, Stephen King pretty much sits down and lets 'er rip, and sees where things go. Two phenomenally successful writers and are polar opposites in how they approach things. Each has their advantages and disadvantages.
The answer is that what works for one author doesn't necessarily work for another author. Successful writers do what works for them. If you don't know, experiment until you do. (And read Stephen King's On Writing, which is fantastic.)
I'm blanking on that- but I am remembering the most awkward response to have to ask about spelling. I remember saying "How do you spell Superjew? for Danny Trejo...
/u/everythingisforants, PM me if you're in the US and would like me to mail you, from Amazon, a copy of my favorite book about meditation. (Free, no strings attached.) :)
Edit: Wow, I didn't predict this enthusiastic of a response! I didn't list the name of the book because I wanted to offer a gift to someone, not be salesy. :)
The book is "The Mind Illuminated" by Dr. John Yates (Culadasa). There's a whole Reddit dedicated to the book at /r/TheMindIlluminated. Many of his students answer questions in the Reddit and offer assistance. Also check out /r/StreamEntry and /r/Meditation. If you're interesting in learning about the nature of suffering, the causes of suffering, and the way to end suffering, check out /r/Buddhism.
I don't think you need a book to learn how to meditate but getting good instruction is critical. Meditation is like any other skill—playing the piano?—without good instruction you have no guarantee of success. It can be the difference between sitting on the cushion for twenty years and not getting anywhere versus a decent chance of becoming enlightened withinin several years. A good teacher in person is best, but failing that a good book can be of great use... whether this one or several others. "The Progress of Insight" is also worth a read.
Edit part deux: Holy Inbox Batman!
I also just remembered that two of his students are teaching a 6-week video intro course online:
PM me if you want more details.
Also one of Asimov's favorite pieces. This one is called the Last Question. If I recall correctly, he put this as either 1st or 2nd place as one of his personal favorites; The Last Answer being the other.
UPDATE: Indeed this is his personal favorite: http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/isaac-asimovs-favorite-story-the-last-question-read-by-isaac-asimov.html
yes this also goes for other sequels they mostly work as META TINGLERS so you can jump in wherever and get extra details and refrences but will have a complete story of your own this goes for most tinglers in the tingleverse there are many crossover books (actually all tinglers HAHAHAHAHA better read to find out buddy) but i think you will be fine
It sounds like a great job to have while doing college. I've been working 30 hours a week at walmart while getting my computer science degree the last 2 years making half that.
CS might be a good out for you. You can learn it easily in your off time, mostly online. And if you have parental support, you make more than enough to go to community college.
Why don't you try one of these free online courses, see if it's a good route for you?
PM me if you have any questions, I'd be willing to help you out.
I'm the creator of the ad-free and open source Slide for Reddit, which has become one of the most popular 3rd party clients on Android over the last year, and is coming to iOS soon!
In high school, I started Slide with little development experience as a learning exercise, but my project ended up gaining a lot of popularity in the Android and FOSS community pretty quickly, and I ended up teaching myself everything I currently know about software development, UI design, customer service, and marketing. I am now studying software engineering (and have a part time marketing and photography position) in college, and creating other free and open source apps. You can AMA here if you'd like or I can do a more official AMA later this week if you're interested :)
Good question - back at the time that Excel was introduced 30 years ago, there was a huge opportunity to help people and organizations be more productive as PCs were becoming more common.
There's a cool interview with some of the original team members who worked on v1.0 you can check out here:
-Dave
I think that's a pretty good way to handle it. For some odd reason some parents think its smart to approach the person in a wheelchair and have a conversation with their child and the disabled person. Personally I hate that. People with disabilities are just as unpredictable as anyone else. You have no idea what could happen when talking to a stranger, especially one that may already feel marginalized. Also its not anyone else's responsibility to educate someone else's kid, unless they are a teacher ectra. You might want to look into some good educational materials about diversity that includes depictions of people in wheelchairs. This is a good start: https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Call-Me-Special-Disability/dp/0764121189/
Bringing Matt Damon home is really expensive!
It may require a budget more than a "penny for NASA" to do it :)
Let's go point by point: 1) Russia has a lot more than one, I uncovered one massive operation myself (1, 2 ), run by the Moscow city hall. It includes both traditional social media campaigns where hundreds of "volunteers" post pro-mayor messages on Twitter and Vkontakte, Russia's domestic social network, and a whole galaxy of identical, centrally managed news websites whose goal is to game the algorithms of the national news aggregator, Yandex. Many regional governments have smaller but similar operations.
2) The goal is to promote the government's causes, creating the illusion of widespread support, and to drown out the critics.
3) They are pervasive, but not terribly effective, just annoying. Most people are aware of them and have learned to ignore or ridicule the very obviously pro-government messages they are seeing on social media.
Thanks for playing! During development we did not do anything, that is why our kickstarter tanked. We did launch the game as early access on itch.io pretty much one year ago to get some feedback (really great to have a small tester audience first, don't just throw it on Steam!). But it became obvious that just platform traffic is not enough. At first I would try to understand how the "game is played" from the perspective of press, bloggers and more. You need to do the fundamentals right. On top of that try to tell your story and that of the game and get people involved in the Beta/EA of the game.
Last part was the most successful for us but wouldn't have worked without the preparation.
Best of luck with your game! If you want, send us something on discord if you want us to give you more feedback :)
Not sure if you know this, but there's a recording of this show, including the trivia here: https://archive.org/details/tsp2000-02-16.flac16
It doesn't go quite as you described, but it's pretty close. But Billy pretty brightly acknowledges that James offered up the pedal.
Edit: Jeeze, a bit late now, but I also just found that somebody has transcribed the trivia portion of the show here: http://www.spfc.org/tours/date.html?tour_id=737&txt_disp=1
Or maybe this is more or less what he meant.
edit: If for whatever reason you don't get it.
Must run! Friend with a new baby is here!! Thank you for being a fan, I love you guys SO much. Thank you SO much for coming and asking and playing! My friends at Funporium put this together so PLEASE DONATE A DOLLAR SO WE CAN MAKE MORE!!!! I have so much fun with puppets and Riz it's seriously crazy hilarious guys!
Let's share another one that i haven't shared yet - LeVar Burton. I GREW UP on Reading Rainbow. I'm a total PBS kid. So I did geek out a bit at the beginning, but then he started talking and we really got started answering questions, and it was moving along at a prodigious pace - and then he literally started crying at this question. He was so incredibly moved by the showing of support from everyone online. I was choking up on my end as well. That emotion really came across in the AMA, I think. It was beautiful, and touching, and precious.
If you want to purchase this app, the best alternatives are (according to this thread):
ToolWiz Photos: Purchaseable and ad-supported versions available. No spyware.
Snapseed: Free to use, but may contain spyware (Google).
Chances are they are with me in person - if it says I'm assisting them, that probably means I'm helping out with their AMA via phone. It depends re: me going to them, or them coming to me - as you can see in some of the pics I shared above, we have had some really fun people come by the reddit office (and DARN I just realized I forgot to include Tim Gunn's photo - our entire NY office LOVED HIM. TIM GUNN IS SUPER SUPER NICE!), and in others, I've gone to them (like Nas, who was also really cool).
Read Leah Remini's book "Troublemaker." She explains how her family was suckered into Scientology. It's a really good book.
No. It's usually because they're shy or holding back or reserved. They usually warm up by the end. Like Mark Ruffalo who was awesome but he started off a bit reserved - by the end we were having a blast.
At Irrational, I guess my role is similar to a film Director. Outside of the writing where I'm actually sitting behind the word processor and then directing the actors, my role as creative director is to say "That looks great" and "That could be better/different, and here's my stupid idea of how that could be done!"
As you can imagine, that job can endear me to people on the team :) The truth is there is no "right" or "wrong" to making aesthetic decisions, at the end of the day, it's pretty arbitrary. So I do the best I can with the skill set I have.
I think i answered the second question elsewhere, but I'd add that you should read great books, and watch great movies, and play great games. That's really the best thing you can do. Also, read On Writing by Stephen King, Screenplay by Syd Field and Adventures in the SCreen trade by William Goldman. None of them are about video games per se, but they were hugely helpful to me.
In terms of great examples, I'd say Valve is a great company for the merger of action and storytelling. And Chet and Erik's Old Man Murray's time to crate article made me think about every fucking crate I ever put in a game, so they can go fuck themselves and see if THEY can write a good video game.
Oh, yeah. They did.
I wrote a vocabulary tutoring engine that can easily wrap languages that can be drilled during spare moments waiting for buses, etc. I created one for the Hawaiian language among others. Anyone can contact me if they want to create one for a dying language.
Your AMA announcement in the sidebar linked to this article. Do you agree with the title and general sentiment that the article tries to portray?
i am not prepared fo this way but it is DANG GOOD HOT TAKE best i can do is this hope this gets you hard as rocks bud
Hi Elon, on behalf of /r/SelfDrivingCars
Thanks so much for everything you do!
This? It doesn't seem like what he was describing.
https://www.amazon.com/Sephora-Brand-Double-Ended-Blemish-Extractor/dp/B00021E6AW
Found some /u/LacquerCritic described!
https://www.amazon.com/Medipoint-MEDI-POINT-Stainless-Steel-Lancet/dp/B00OZWKHPW
This tutorial will help you set up an OpenVPN instance on an Ubuntu Linux machine (it's written for 14.04 but still works in 16.04 for me). It'll walk you through all of the steps to set up the vpn instance although it assumes you already have some knowledge with a headless Linux server and the command line. Hopefully that helps!
Edit: For people worried about DigitalOcean's imo okay privacy policy, this will work on any Ubuntu Machine/VM regardless of where you get it.
There's no question that that comment, made in a deposition in late 2013, turned out to be catastrophic to Gawker three years later when the case was put in front of a juror. The chapter that I tell that story in in the book is about why you need to both know yourself and your enemy (borrowing from the concept by Sun Tzu). Gawker both had no idea the enemy they'd made in Thiel, had no real understand of how committed Hogan would be and worse, they did not understand how they might come off in court. The result was that they did and said things that came back to haunt them when their fate rested in the hands of some ordinary people in Florida.
What's my best shot at getting my husband's hard rock band a spot on your tour?
^bracing ^myself ^for ^downvotes, ^will ^do ^whatever ^it ^takes ^to ^help ^my ^man
Hi Andy! Thanks for doing this. Eventually, using a VPN comes down to “how much do you trust the VPN provider”. And a lot of this trust is directly tied to the people running the company today. But people will inevitably change or find a new job and leave the company and after a while the core ideas behind the company might get lost or could become compromised. So - first question - how are you planning to ensure that your line of thought will be consistent and coherent throughout the years as well as with future boards of directors and management and when should we become alarmed in case things go wrong? Second question - looking at what happened to /r/CopperheadOS how can we be sure that there won’t be any hostile takeovers from third parties? I realise that from a legal point of view Switzerland is not the US so someone taking over the company is rather unlikely, but it’s also worth remembering that ProtonVPN is, in fact, a separate company but nonetheless we have to trust a separate entity that is legally not the same as “ProtonMail” and the software ProtonVPN is running is not directly verifiable like for Open Source software, hence my question.
I would hazard a guess that RFID in credit cards and passports are of interest to them.
Context for those who are confused.
Greetings RZA, what do you think about the Kickstarter project established to raise money to bid on the new Wu album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, and release it for all the world to hear?
I've been using a color temperature program F.lux that changes the tone of my screen(s) over the course of the day which purports to help with sleep by modeling appropriately colored light.
Is this hogwash? It does seem to work for me, but I've been thinking placebo effect. How does light affect sleep?
Just so you know, dogfooding isn't just a microsoft term. It is also used in other companies, like facebook. (where they decided to be funny with it by calling it droidfooding, but the picture makes clear that it is referring to dogfood)
Thanks! Tails is actually an official Tor project, and we are working with the developers to ensure that all traffic is safely routed through Tor and no trace is left on the system. I, personally, think Tails is a great distro and have used it a few times while traveling.
Sure! I think my photo with a link on the paper would not prove a lot ... so I just made this page https://www.photopea.com/reddit.html with a link to this AMA :)
Thanks for the shoutout! Here's the series and here's my book
>You say I need help. I’d normally agree with you but, after too many times I’ve had said help and yet fallen back into the same behaviors again, I don’t think I want it any more.
She is aware of her behaviors and yet can't stop. That's some real mental illness, and the fact that she's probably going to be let go, that's the scariest part. Melissa could be in real danger, the longer she does this, the more destructive she can become. I'm truly disgusted with the system today.
Edit: After reading more, she's straight up one scary stalker. Jesus christ.
>Melissa, I didn’t realise it was him. I’m sorry for that but not yet sorry for hurting you. Talk or suffer more from me.
Edit 2: I don't get it, she admitted she is stalking Melissa, why is nothing being done to her? ELI5 please
Edit 3: Melissa posted that she's reported it to tumblr and no action has been done so I thought maybe if we could report it too, bring some more attention to tumblr, they'll do something about it.
https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/community - scroll down, click the link 'directly' in 'You can report violations of these guidelines to us directly.' (I'd paste the e-mail here but apparently they want your browser information for some reason)
Edit 4: We did it, Reddit! The account has been deleted. :)
We have a nice blog post on this where we benchmarked our stack against both of them ( https://mycroft.ai/blog/the-mycroft-benchmark/ ) the answer was - we were tested and found wanting. This was great! This was our first benchmark and gives us a baseline to compare against. The team is now working to improve our performance and bring it up to par.
Our first production version will be released in February 2019. At that time I expect you'll see similar performance across the top 10 skills. We're certainly working hard to make that happen.
Colonel -
Alabama voter here. You mentioned that you would support the Republican tax plan in your November 30th NPR interview with David Greene:
> I would support the Republican plan when they finish with it. I think it's a practical matter, David. It's probably a non-issue. The inauguration for this seat is February 8, and I expect it'll be done by the end, but philosophically, I would support whatever the Republicans come out with at the end.
Do you still stand by this?
What portions of this tax bill do you see helping low and middle earning Alabamians?
If they're just simply deleting photos then it would be a very easy task to "undelete" those photos later (provided they are not using more sophisticated methods of deletion). There's plenty of software available for the job. I'd recommend Photorec. Did you ever give something like that a go?
Gmail used to have a "labs" feature where after a certain time of night you had to solve a math problem to send an email. I'm not sure if it still exists.
Edit: "Mail Goggles" is gone, but here's an app for your phone, DrunkLocker. If you know you're going out drinking you can block yourself from specific apps and contacts. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vn.ibit.DrunkLocker
You shouldn’t be reading any books before venturing out. Get out there now and then read them as you’re working. Still the best business book I’ve ever read is “How To Win Friends and Influence People”. Nothing better.
I assume he was doing this as a tribute to when Elvis Costello was on SNL. Here's more info about that moment in history: http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-stunt-that-got-elvis-costello-banned-from-saturday-night-live.html
I really love "The Lady with the Goose", which is a whimsical shot I made in China with a single reflex camera many years ago. It has become the cover of my new book, Amaze. You can see that photo here: https://www.amazon.com/Amaze-Cristina-Mittermeier/dp/3961711240 CGM
I would say any time you have personal information belonging to somebody else, you are now acting as a steward of someone's data and you should consider setting up a warrant canary.
One of the subprojects that we want to do with Canarywatch is help define a legal standard for warrant canaries. We have applied for funding for this project in the past but not been successful at finding someone to subsidize getting a technical writer and lawyer to work through this for a few months. If anyone can help us find funding for this please let me know.
There is no such open standard at this point, which makes it difficult for organizations to deploy canaries since they have to essentially reinvent the wheel, and it also makes it difficult for us to main the Canarywatch site since for each canary we add, we need to write custom code to try to scrape the canary and identify changes while minimizing false positives.
In the mean time, The Intercept wrote a piece of free software to automate setting up your own canary that you might want to have a look at.
Engadget did an article on the helmet and his stage setup.
> The other half of the luminous pair takes the form of the artist's trademark logo: his head. There are actually two different versions -- one completely covered with LEDs, and another simpler one with neon-lined edges. We got to check out the neon one, which weighs in at over eleven pounds. Though both are essentially the same, the LED model weighs almost three times as much. On both, there's a camera up front that shows a view of what's going on outside, since the entire helmet is completely solid and there aren't any eye holes. There's a set of color video goggles on the inside that displays whatever the camera sees, so all interaction with knobs and sliders has to be dealt with in a different perspective. Essentially, he appears to be looking straight outward, but sees what's going on below him. There are also eight fans around back to keep cool while spinning tracks. (The LED one has six on the rear and two in the neck area to stimulate air-circulation.) We were also told the LED helmet sports over 1,000 individual diodes alone
So happy you asked!
Because classic Reading Rainbow is available to the consumer on iTunes, and some on Amazon.
Here are the links - thank you Victoria!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/reading-rainbow-vol.-1/id563629079
Best of luck with your recovery and with becoming a non smoker. Can I offer two suggestions?
I started smoking at 14. I smoked 10-15 cigarettes a day. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
About 5 years ago I get this weird pain. Started in my jaw and moved to my chest. I thought it was a heart attack... but it passed after about 3 minutes. I look it up online, and it said that the pain was most probably 'stress induced', but tobacco was definitely a factor. 6 months later it happens again. Then again. I had heard about Allen Carr. I downloaded the book. It stayed there, unread, until that weird pain happened for the fourth time. I started reading the next day.
I was 'relieved' that the first instruction in the book is keep smoking until you're done. I took a while to read this small book, ironically because I only read it while smoking. Halfway through the book, smoking started to be a chore. Something that I HAD to do, not something that I enjoyed doing. I made it a point to only read while smoking to make that lesson stick.
The last day I smoked I smoked 4 cigarettes. They all tasted like shit. It felt so satisfying to read that last page, smoke that last cigarette (only half of it) and throw it away with my lighter.
I got cravings, sure. But the book teaches you how to deal with them, how to play the mental game of quitting.
BTW, I quit 1,251 days ago. I have not had that weird pain since I quit smoking.
If I'm not mistaken, it was a reference to a stunt by Elvis Costello on Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Great question. Laura James's book Odd Girl Out is good. Sara Gibbs' book Drama Queen just came out and it's a delight. I'd also recommend Steve Silberman's Neurotribes and reading the website the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism.
The licensing is actually rather confused. The LICENSE file says MIT, but the code is actually a binary blob (compiled Java class files), not open source. That's... not incorrect, but strange. MIT does not forbid decompilation/reverse engineering, so not providing source is rather pointless.
Then he's providing an API to make and get the actual triggers that the SDK uses... but triggers are really just lists of positive and negative FFT bins (I decompiled the code) to trigger on. So there's nothing stopping anyone from making their own trigger audio and using the principle behind the code without the API and without paying for usage, unless the technology is patented.
This is confusing. If the intent is to provide a demo of the technology and charge for usage, why is it released under a license that allows decompilation and allows anyone to use it for free, and furthermore, why bill it as open source software licensed under the MIT license? If the intent is actually to release the technology for free for anyone to use, why is it a binary blob which requires an API and has concepts like trial quota built into it?
Edit: incidentally, the FFT implementation is this public-domain one, and the code that uses it has at least two random variable names in Spanish (but Google has no hits for them), which makes me wonder if OP really wrote it all or had someone else help.
Kevin has a history of suicide attempts, but, in addition, each episode of psychosis damages the brain. Yes, it is a struggle to get adequate and appropriate treatment with each hospitalization, as well as clinical treatment. The system, overall, is broken.
You really can't keep yourself safe from unjust persecution precisely because it's unjust (and unpredictable), but we've had to evacuate a few colleagues out of Russia because of police harassment. Standing your ground and not yielding to pressure sometimes helps too, especially if there is a major public campaign in your support. In June 2019, one of my colleagues had drugs planted on him by corrupt cops, but after a national outcry he was released and the cops are now behind bars. But unfortunately, it was more of a unique exception.
I'd recommend reading Duhigg's, "The Power of Habit". Part of this overcoming failure is starting with little wins that build confidence.. .and another part is to find what habits, KEYSTONE habits will allow all of your ambitions to fall in line.
It's a lot of areas of law within the context of games, with trademarks certainly being my main component. As for how I got into this industry, I got caught up a bit in the Candy Crush debacle and just kind of stayed. I've been a gamer forever, and am lucky to be doing something I love. Can read about the Candy Crush stuff here: http://www.gamefront.com/king-candys-attempt-at-crushing-the-saga-trademark/
Well, you’re not alone here. Talking about sex with their kids is one of the most terrifying things for parents! And…had you rather her learn from porn or from friends telling dirty jokes? The average age of first hard core porn exposure is 8 years old so it is never too early to start talking to your little ones about healthy sex and sexuality. The key is to bring it up in a casual way, like you’d talk about anything else. There are loads of books that can help you as well.
Well, you’re not alone here. Talking about sex with their kids is one of the most terrifying things for parents! And…had you rather her learn from porn or from friends telling dirty jokes? The average age of first hard core porn exposure is 8 years old so it is never too early to start talking to your little ones about healthy sex and sexuality. The key is to bring it up in a casual way, like you’d talk about anything else. There are loads of books that can help you as well. This one may be help This one may be helpful for your older daughter: https://www.amazon.com/Celebrate-Your-Body-Its-Changes/dp/164152166X/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+talk+about+sex+with+kids&qid=1624893108&sr=8-5 Lean into embarrassment and talk to her about sex in the same way you wish your Dad had chatted about it with you when you were 12! If you open the door to the discussion, she’ll be coming back to you when she has questions…which is far preferable than her searching for answers online.
No reason to have your wife do the heavy lifting here. ;-)
I started out with very strong opinions (I'd written about Gawker in my first book, Trust Me I'm Lying and also in my Observer column). I'd also been attacked by Gawker several times and the subject of some preposterously inaccurate stories. So I actually went into the book with a bit of a bias, but I found myself considerably softened talking to Nick, talking to A.J, reading what many of the writers wrote in their eulogies of the site. What I tried to do in the book ultimately was remove judgement as much as possible and just show what happened. I think that's a more important lesson.
Whether Gawker deserved what happened to it doesn't change what actually happened and to me that's where there is something to learn. How did Thiel do this? What were his motivations? How did no one suspect it as it was happening? Why was Gawker unable to fend him off? How did Gawker actually work as a company? What were its motivations for publishing the story? Why has the coverage since been so slanted in their favor since losing? Those were the questions I tried to answer.
The Khan Academy is helping me change my life! I'm going to shift gears from the social sciences to STEM over the next year, and it's helping me tackle the biggest hurdle for me: mathematics.
Yes - you've already done the first step: recognizing your weakness.
Now, if you truly want it to not be a weakness, attack it.
Take math classes and don't quit. Work with your professors/teachers every day after class if you have to. Get tutors. Use Khan Academy. Try to get into MIT, Caltech or Harvey Mudd. Even if you don't make it, you'll be miles ahead of where you are now.
If you aim for the stars and miss, you'll still hit the moon. How's that for a cheesy apropos?
Also, since you are already good at science, keep working on that. You'll soon find how math and science start intermixing and complementing the other. You may just find your talent with science is a bonus in math!
EDIT: PM me with any specifics you think you want to talk about!
reddit is sadly not as gender-balanced (yet) as I'd like, but I hold up a big {Citation needed} sign whenever I see 'data' like that -- where did they get it?
That said, the conclusion still jibes with anecdotal evidence. But great subreddits like [/r/twoxchromosomes] give me hope that the platform is gender agnostic, but we've certainly got work to do.
Also! I've always thought pinterest was delicious done right. The behavior seems more like 'let me save this for later' (delicious) than 'let me share this with people now' (reddit) but maybe that's just how I use pinterest.
I like how we have a button for advertising
Play store link: Relay for reddit
i wanted to downvote you, because gluten intolerance is severely overhyped (only 3 percent of the population are actually gluten intolerant - discounting another 3 percent with celiac's disease). However, i did some research and found a credible scientific study supporting the hypothesis that gluten intolerance may influence schizophrenia.
Warning: Newcomers from YouTube, post your comments wisely! "Lol that ws and awesome comment" or even "lol" or "haha" Will Get Down-Voted.
This is a good place to get acquainted
I'm the creator of Universe Sandbox. Sorry for missing your earlier attempts at communication. I just sent you a Steam key so you can check it out for yourself.
And thanks to lovenerdcubed for the suggestion.
And we're working on a major free update that's going to be far superior to the current version.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I started Flash in high school. My friend was animating a kid floating in nasty looking beach water and I wanted to try animation out. After a couple years of that I was REALLY into animation, I wanted to be a 2D animator so bad. Here's my first Flash animation from 2002: http://jmtb02.com/flash/penguin.swf
From there I started to learn to do simple programming. I started making games by 2004, and by college I started publishing content to Newgrounds.com. Here is the first game I published: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/154436
I had friends who can give me tips on how to use Flash and was lucky enough to have a teacher who could give me some basic help when I stumbled. In 2006 I made the decision to go full-blown game development.
KIA = Killed in Action
Casualty = Someone who can't fight any more
Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_casualty_and_a_death
Edit: Votesareno is right; casualties include wounded and killed. I gave the informal definition.
The ones I've already listed out, probably - plus Jeremy Wade from River Monsters. My 3rd dream job (started out wanting to me an entomologist as a kid, then paleontologist, then finally marine biologist with a focus on fish not mammals- and then realized I was horrible at math and had to go into communications) was focused on fish and I LOVED talking with him about his show!
You've probably seen this already but these white boards would be much cheaper to ship than conventional ones.
What is special about the surge protectors you offer?
i thought i might, especially from black republicans on-site, but the opposite was the case. they don't live in a total denial bubble and understand that the two percent black makeup of the GOP is terribly low. they were amused at the count, which made me feel good because it was a reminder that they're actual PEOPLE and not just distant ideas i dislike
best example of this was my interview with super black republican (super republican, not that he's more black than other black folk!) Paris Dennard
he ran african american outreach for George W Bush
Thanks for the kind words, gambari. I can help here. First, you wrote "When you say you're going to do something, you do it. Your strength of conviction and desire to get it done get's you there."
Not true! I often have terrible conviction and willpower. I need systems and habits to prevent my lesser self from winning. It's a daily fight.
A few things that help me dramatically:
Grab "The 5-Minute Journal" and spend a few minutes on this each morning, BEFORE checking your phone, laptop, etc.
Do the "fear-setting" exercise from The 4-Hour Workweek about big choices or projects you're considering. This is often the inflection point for people, and I still do this every 4-6 weeks. Here are the basics: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-ferriss-on-exercise-to-overcome-fears-2015-4
Schedule and defend 20-40 minutes of exercise to "bookend" your day and get you off of computers around 6pm or 7pm. This will provide some structure to organize everything else around.
Hope that helps!
Tim
No problem! I'm a fan of your question. A load of things.
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I've just written a book about the Shed, and the bizarre philosophy I've taken away from it: It's the most successful thing I've ever done, yet I didn't really care about the outcome when I was doing it, I was just wholly enjoying the process. Seeing how far it could go. It's out on February 26th and is $5, if anybody is interested: https://www.amazon.com/How-Bullsh-Your-Way-Number/dp/1513643657?_encoding=UTF8&redirect=true
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I'm also working on a TV show, which is going to take a while, and is going to be harder to pull off than landing a drone on top of a boiled egg