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Unfortunate title; noncommissioned officers are sadly few and far between at tech companies.

Any suggestions for open engines with some similarity to the tools provided in Unity3d, Lumberyard/Crytek, or Unreal4?

The rage yes maybe, but Star Citizen is definitely not off topic. Article mentions WC1-3, it's a franchise article. SC is Origin's canceled Privateer Online [:)] without the license.

For the Wing Commander community, they're inseparable despite the licensing.

[:)] http://www.wcnews.com/privateeronline.shtml

Meditation and mindfulness can be used as a direct replacement for smartphone usage to kill time, in all such situations.

Seriously, this is a very good thing to do. All those annoying meditator-commenters on the Internet are right.

https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-start...

...but my most common smartphone time killer is reading long-form articles I've emailed to myself.

Strange position; you don't think the user already knew they were required to press the correct button? Your solution seems pretty passive aggressive.

Be kinda like putting up a 'your code must compile' signs in a software dev office. Unhelpfully obvious.

> How come everyone wants to blame the system.

Because if the system isn't fixed, it's just going to happen again. Surely you're not arguing that the system is without flaw?

It's not so much about changing the IP address, but moving the targeted system out from behind the clogged tube. Changing IP address may or may not do that.

For many, many DDoS scenarios this does not work. The spurious packets may saturate an upstream ISP, causing that ISP to unilaterally apply a null route or block for all packets for the targeted origin IP. No CloudFlare packets would arrive at all.

If one is concerned about DDoS, one should work with their ISPs on the plan of action for various scenarios. Finding out their procedures when ones' hair is on fire is not fun.

You're staking out some pretty tough ground, there. Human error can be unconscious or reflexive, and that type of UI element is sometimes barely a speedbump, cognitively.

Occasionally I reflexively click-through a confirmation dialogue box and regret it. I feel like I've been trained by the software industry for decades to bludgeon my way through these confirmations, many of which are unnecessary to begin with. I basically have muscle memory for it, the skids are greased for clicking-through. I know I'm not the only one.

So, I could see myself making this type of slip. It's really hard to know the balance between human and system error for this incident, but to me it looks like the system naively assumes a perfect human. Even if the incident turns out to have been an intentionally malicious act, the problem with the system would still remain.

YouTube is just distribution. It's like crediting heavy trucks for winning WW2, or crediting YCombinator News's CDN for writing this witty and insightful message.

New for me, too. Looks like accelerationism is a bit of everything. Legitimate applied philosophy, I guess the communists were some early accelerationists.

I feel like this is the link someone above me should have shared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism#Contemporary_a...

SEEMS LIKE philosophy-type sub-communities trying to figure out how to use all this new tech these past few decades to achieve 'post-capitalism'. Lots of room for different political tribes, in that direction.

Tempted to check out a book related to this stuff, but I haven't exactly had my philosophical world rocked yet by anything I've read about it yet.

I think you're right about that.

And their families are victims, also.

You've got some good points, but your 'victimless' assertion is highly questionable.

> using heroine to intoxicate one’s self is very victimless.

I have never used it, but have lost friends to it. How am I not a victim?

> > permanent 3-day stubble

> I really want to know how to do this. My stubble goes from 0-day to 1-day to 2-day to 3-day and then back to 0-day...

I achieve variable-length shaven-stubble with "Amazon: Panasonic Beard and Mustache Trimmer and Hair Clipper for Men". Once-over with the main clipper (sans attachment) is like a 2/3 day (but it looks a little uneven), and then the mustache trimmer to achieve a 1/2-day.

Avoiding zero-days is a priority of mine, also, so I felt compelled to share. Good luck!

That's a rather uncharitable read of my comment, obviously keeping kids away from awful Internet content isn't sufficient by itself.

> Is there any real need for controlling what a child can see and what he can not?

Yes, and any sane parent would agree. Physical safety is a prime consideration.

Here's a bunch of examples (query: fork in electrical outlet):

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fork+in+electri...

Good questions. Another I'd add is: are there any contractual/legal requirements preventing these intel subcontractors from proxying the full firehose to CIA? If so, it's possible those requirements would be respected on the government side.

I'm skeptical there would be any practical restrictions in RT's case.

How does one determine that two things are different, or similar, without comparing them?

> RT is a Russian propaganda channel, it's not a foreign intelligence service

I wonder if there are National Security Letters and FISA courts (or something comparable) in Russia.

Senate Intelligence Committee has expressed concerns that Jack Dorsey is favoring the Russian government over the United States government.

Senator Tom Cotton, CIA Director John Brennan, transcript from Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on June 2016:

https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=414

SENATOR COTTON: I want to discuss cooperation with our Intelligence Community from Silicon Valley, specifically Twitter and a company called Dataminr. According to the Wall Street Journal from May 8th, as well as some other media reports, Dataminr which is owned in part by Twitter and is the only company authorized to access the full real-time stream of public tweets that Twitter has, recently cooperated with the CIA. But just a few weeks ago ended that cooperation. So our Intelligence Community no longer has access to Dataminr's information, could you comment on these reports?

DIRECTOR BRENNAN: It appears as though Dataminr was directed to not provide its service to the CIA Intelligence Community and so therefore, we need to be able to leverage other capabilities in order to make sure that we have the insight we need to protect this country.

COTTON: So those reports are correct?

BRENNAN: I am not going to dispute them.

COTTON: The Wall Street Journal also reported that the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, directed Dataminr to stop the contract because he was worried about the "optics" of helping intelligence agencies. Do you believe that to be accurate?

BRENNAN: I do not know his motivation for any corporate decision he may have made, but I have no basis to dispute that.

COTTON: The Wall Street Journal also reports that among customers of Dataminr remains RT, Russia Today, a propaganda outlet of Vladimir Putin's government, which Putin has said is "trying to break the Anglo-Saxon monopoly on global information streams." To your knowledge, is Russia Today a client of Dataminr?

BRENNAN: I believe so, I'm not certain of that. But I don't have any information that they have been excluded from their services.

Well, putting the text in the image file itself makes the text+image combo easily portable between services. It lowers the barrier for others to share the content, with their own techno-tribes.

I guess this why the 'meme' form is so prevalent, today.

The articles makes points throughout, but one I found interesting was in the first paragraph. Zuckerberg acknowledging professional failings, suggesting FB does not consider itself to be perfect.

For example, a recent Facebook privacy failure (also, a separate failure for FB PR department): https://gizmodo.com/how-facebook-outs-sex-workers-1818861596

Some find it worrisome that these systems don't work quite like users expect, and believe there is risk we're not accounting for.

> But he doesn't like SV because it's companies created anarchic platforms that allow unsavory people to buy and publish propaganda? Seems somewhat hypocritical for a writer of the NYT to decry freedom to publish on platforms.

Where in the story do you read the NYT writer decrying freedom of publication? If it's between the lines, I can't find it.

Seems to me that the concerns are about how sites like Facebook decide which posts to show me (my cousin's travel pictures, or a 'trending' news story?) and the piles of information these companies are amassing on us.

I don't think it's fair to frame this as purely a 'freedom of speech' thing on the part of SV companies. Besides, not all speech enjoys legal protections.

I didn't read the criticism that way; seemed like a warning against "one size fits all" thinking when dealing with a complex system like a human brain.

Maybe you are both right!

I don't understand your critique. Spending a few extra characters to highlight how cool the scientific field work is seems like a fine thing for the NYT to do. Good for kids, young and old. Are you SURE you like bears and buffalo?

I don't think your link contains better science:

> A Yellowstone eruption would be absolutely devastating, covering half the Earth in an ash cloud that could trigger a nuclear winter.

I suppose _all_ winters are nuclear winters... from an atom's point of view.

Agree. How far open does the barn door have to be before it goes from 'irresponsible' to 'responsible'? When does it become a matter of public interest?

What time scale is this guy assessing risk on? Does he have or expect grandchildren? Does he mind if the rest of us do?

I'd appreciate it if industry people like this could behave a little more... responsibly.

There's lots of ways to compensate a cat! Not all sales compensation plans are commission-based (a percentage of the sale). Commission-based plans are much less common for sales engineers vs. salespeople, unless they are working with only a single salesperson.

In general, sales engineer variable compensation plans are going to be based on some mix of sales numbers, with less variability and risk than the salesperson's plan. Ideally providing goal alignment with money, smoothing out the stresses, but also encouraging some level of independence for the sales engineers. A ward against salespeople who might be seduced by the Dark Side.

The less obvious case you raise, a single engineer directly responsible for causing a customer to spend more money: structurally or ad-hoc, that person should probably be getting paid. Maybe the customer-facing people aren't engaging efficiently, and it's a sign of something a bit out of alignment with customer operations.

Salespeople can provide big value in getting engineering attention to the right customers at the right time... but the best ones know it's a team sport. I know salespeople that give envelopes of cash to difference-makers, though that's exceptional.

> I think it is incredible arrogant to even assume that we can have any impact on future that distant.

If we're not impacting it... then who is?

Hyperbole like this always makes me nervous. The probability is obviously not zero, politely suggesting the question: "what has been missed in this analysis?"

Storytelling, and narratives.

Though, I suppose either music or storytelling may have been relatively more important, and larger percentage of the total activity of pre-historic human groups, than those 'industries' are for us today.