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Except that most of the military do not walk around with fingers on triggers all day. That's a very small group of front-line combat people. Half the military rarely pick up a weapon. The air force, most all of the navy, most everyone in intel ... they aren't raiding desert compounds every night. I'm betting that a US base (in the US) probably has few guns per person than a typical US neighborhood.

It might be counterintuitive, but I find MPs (military police) generally much more friendly and calm that the average civilian cop.
Which is why contracts include things like right-to-audit, so you can verify for yourself.
Calm down. You'll be just fine traveling the United States. You might even have a pleasant interaction with an American police officer which you can add to your list. They're mostly just good people trying to do good work, just like the rest of us.
> I suspect that the cops had access to illegally obtained evidence, and the bee thing was the only way they had to legitimize what they already knew.

It's quite common and is called parallel construction[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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That's changing a cpp file. Changing a widely used header file could take 1-2 mins for a full or nearly full rebuild.
If you have a former IBMer running your licensing program because of its size and complexity, then you are industry regardless of your founding.
One of your first three thoughts after blowing an electrolytic cap for the first time is bound to be, "That was cool! How do I do that again?"
You can allocate stuff on the stack.
I am tired of this technology having to be re-invented time and time again.

The best I ever saw was an internal tool at Microsoft. It could run tests on devices (Windows Mobile phones, but it really didn't care), had a nice reservation and pool system and a nice USB-->Ethernet-->USB system that let you route any device to any of the test benches.

This was great because it was a heterogeneous pool of devices, with different sets of tests that executed appropriately.

The test recovery was the best I've ever seen. The back end was wonky as anything, every single function returned a BOOL indicating if it had ran correctly or not, every function call was wrapped in an IF statement. That was silly, but the end result was that every layer of the app could be restarted independently, and after so many failures either a device would be auto removed from the pool and the tests reran on another device, or a host machine could be pulled out, and the test package sent down to another host machine.

The nice part was the simplicity of this. All similar tools I've used since have involved really stupid setup and configuration steps with some sort of crappy UI that was hard to use en-masse.

In comparison, this test system just tool a path to a set of source files on a machine, the compilation and execution command line, and then if the program returned 0 the test was marked as pass, if it returned anything else it was marked as fail.

All of this (except for copying the source files over) was done through an AJAX Web UI back in 2006 or so.

Everything I've used since than has either been watching people poorly reimplementing this system (frequently with not as good error recovery) or just downright inferior tools.

(For reference a full test pass was ~3 million tests over about 2 days, and there were opportunities for improvement, network bandwidth alone was a huge bottle neck)

All that said, the test system in the link sounds pretty sweet.
I saw you tried different versions on 2 different machines -- it certainly suggests something related to your setup: I can zoom, open in new tab, save as, etc on Firefox 41 on Ubuntu 14.04.

Do you have running app for mouse gestures? That's the only thing I can think of that makes sense in your scenario. Try holding the right click for a few seconds, see if the context menu appears.
There's no formal education for basic communication skills. We rely on informal methods such as talking to friends and family, but there will always be people who miss out on practicing on one or more aspects of socialising with women. And they will be the harassers. I don't think shaming them and locking them up straight away is the way to go.

I have had crushes on various females since primary and secondary school. The first one or two instances you could almost say I too had harassed someone. It wasn't until I had more experience "advancing" I finally got when girls want you to continue and when they don't. Not everyone is lucky they pick this skill up early, even as I wish I got the hang of it earlier than I did.
Last time I used Parse the Android SDK had a crippling bug that made it unusable. This was version 1.8.0 I believe.

Essentially Disk I/O was using the same synchronized lock as the main thread. On some devices this caused a reproducible ANR (App Not Responding). I ended up writing a small REST Api client using Retrofit to replace the SDK. It worked well but as mmastrac mentioned there are just too many other critical issues with Parse to make it suitable for anything other than quick prototypes.

Besides, it's super expensive if you need have any sort of scale. You could almost hire a part-time engineer to build and maintain a backend for those prices.
Yes but not on recommendation. In fact the majority of what I do these days is legislative compliance and bringing teams and applications back onshore that the companies have fucked up.

Currently digging a financial company out of a royal mess of 20 years of bad technical leadership leading to sprawling infrastructure and cloud dependencies.
The author informs that the stack is "difficult bit to wrap your head around first", then makes a bizarre statement "Once again – pushed values are indexed with negative, function arguments with positive numbers." This is not correct, you can use positive or negative indexes in either case. Positive indexes are absolute and negative are relative to the top of the stack.
Allocations don't have to be expensive if your GC is smart. Smart as C++ destructors positioning :D
Maybe, if there's anybody to buy it. It may be abandoned.
Note that other game companies usually developed the actual games for LucasArts. X-Wing and TIE Fighter were developed by Totally Games and KOTOR (the first one) was developed by BioWare. Many of their adventure games (such as Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango) were developed in-house, though.

I don't know if any of the original LucasArts people are involved in this new effort -- I have a feeling that this is a denovo group.
How about no decks at all? Why not just bootstrap your way to your first 1~10 million dollars and then be in a much more dominant position when it comes to trading cash for equity?

You could literally be able to walk from any VC. You could ask for absolutely every set of conditions that puts you in favor. You could have complete control.

To me I think that is an invaluable asset to have, being the one with control not your investors whim. They should consider it an honor to be able to invest in you. You will be able to ask for far more. You run the business for your vision not theirs. You ultimately have more control over your destiny than being focused on burning cash fast to keep your investors happy and then looking for more of them before you run out.
They'd be fine. For example, the tops of these ducks are dry:

https://i.imgur.com/RYyBMrf.jpg

In a reservoir you're not going to get waves that manage to spin the weighted side of the ball up any considerable amount, even if it's only slightly weighted.
Actually, yes it is. Watching public television is an activity that takes time. Groups compete for your time and attention. Public TV asks for donations which people could use on other things. Competition isn't a dirty word, its how we live our limited lives.
I think I'll end up putting Win 10 as my host. It's just too annoying worrying about drivers and batteries on Linux.

But I can just disable networking on the host (which shouldn't be running anything anyways), or at worse, route it though a VM.

I'm more concerned about how to run it in a VM, since I need day to day Win dev tools with Internet access.
I recall playing this a couple times in college, to vastly different results. One 'ended' as a weird race to infinity, where the point values exploded and the winning value increased exponentially every turn. Another created a weird microsociety with social castes and jobs. I created a website for that one and years later found mention of it on the site for another Nomic game that had grown to the point of establishing 'diplomatic relations' with other games.

If anything it belongs in a class of "game" alongside things like D&D...it's a very minimal goal-oriented storytelling structure, albeit with one that leans heavy towards legal and procedural creativity.
> Toshiba still exists mostly because WD feeds it with technology whenever they are threatened by anti-monopoly rulings

From what I have read, Toshiba's 2.5" consumer/enterprise and 3.5" enterprise HDD business was acquired from Fujitsu [1] and has nothing to do with WD/HGST. WD had to transfer some/all (reports diverge) HGST 3.5" consumer HDD assets to Toshiba on the insistence of the EU Commission.

The Toshiba/HGST thing is a little opaque to me: HGST still sells a few DeskStar HDDs, notably DeskStar NAS, and newer Toshiba 3.5" consumer HDDs (MD-series 4TB+) look more like the enterprise HDDs that Toshiba has been selling for a while [2], not like the DT01ACA... models that were relabeled HGST DeskStar 7K3000 [3], although there are also pictures of the very same MD models that do look HGST-style [4]. Makes me unsure what to buy 3.5"-wise when I want the Hitachi reliability that I am used to (buying IBM/HGST for over a decade and never had a failure).

Then again, maybe I'm just naive and Toshiba is more dependent on WD than I think.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/toshiba-buys-fujitsu-hard-disk-driv...
[2] https://www.alternate.de/p/o/a/Toshiba_PX3009E_1HP0_4_TB__Fe...
[3] http://cdn1.goughlui.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_4989...
[4] http://www.toshiba.eu/hard-drives/internal-hard-drives/sata-...
Just to note that phones are the tip of the iceberg. The jails and prisons are taking huge fees from commissary accounts, charging fees to see a doctor (even if you were assaulted), etc.

Also things like reducing to 2 meals a day to save money. Or worse. Search google for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's outdoor tents, in Phoenix, where the average high temp in July is 41C/106F.

It's really shameful.
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Web browsing is more likely to get someone interested in TCP/IP than plopping the RFCs in front of them. I know I've found myself more motivated to learn more of the basics of electronics after working with an Arduino than basic crap I put together for a logic course.

People learn different ways and are motivated in different ways. I'm motivated to learn top down in electronics. Arduino is helpful to that crowd.
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the interactions i had with the legal / police system when i was younger form the basis of most of my political opinions, especially the controversial ones. i won't mention them here but you can probably use your imagination to determine what i'm talking about.

the police are not there to help you, or seek truth. they are there to fuck you over swiftly and silently if the powers that be decide you need to be fucked over. simple as that.
Yes, mutating something at one place in memory is more efficient, because you don't need to allocate new memories.

I don't know all to much about other functional languages, as I learned perl -> ruby -> javascript -> little bit C & Java & Go -> now doing Clojure. But I find Clojures collection data structures interesting. The vector (collection like lists or array) type look immutable, but under the hood are trees. When you append to a vector, you seem get a new vector returned.

In reality, you added the new element as a node in a tree. Then just modified pointers to that the new and old version share almost all of the pointers & allocations. With simple arrays or lists, you would allocate every element anew.

Idk if I can properly explain. Found this blog post very interesting and easier to follow: http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-...

Personally, most things in business I find easily parallelisable. You mostly decouple the I/O parts of something with the logic parts of it. But yeah I still have much to learn. Thanks for the link! Interesting :)
When it comes to Markdown its main advantage is not its features (it does not have many), but its simplicity (and ability to edit it in a text editor - blazing fast, no distractions, etc). And then I can convert it to anything.

Vs LaTeX - sometimes I need just to note (a to do list, a draft of a blog post, an outline of workshop), without the boilerplate or visual noise of LaTeX.

(And I wrote more than a dozen of papers in LaTeX - so mine argument isn't "LaTeX is too hard".)

That said, I enjoyed using Overleaf - but mainly for teaching LaTeX (no installation, very nice and readable error messages, nice examples (I use your default page as the first introduction)). But for anything longer it's a pain that everything needs to recompile every few keystrokes (especially on a slow connection); I know it's not you but LaTeX; but for the same reason sometimes (when not requiring full features of LaTeX) it's easier to use Markdown + MathJaX.
Not just that. He ran the growing operation, meaning he was not the drug kingpin. They sell to the real drug dealers who handle the illegal distribution. If it was the largest pot operation, that means he was beholden to the largest drug dealers, who probably told him his family would pay if he ever talked. Hence killing himself before he could talk.
If you want the war on drugs to work, arresting dealers is a waste of time. If there's demand, then there are always more poor people willing to make easy money as dealers.

Sending casual users to jail is the only way to cut demand. If the casual users -- the most lucrative market -- get off scott-free then there's never any limit to demand and consumption.
I can't say anybody is better off now that this guy is "off the streets"
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First of all, if two people log in at once, the system knows something's wrong. Second, how is your attack more likely to succeed from the passive attack? In yours, I know you're connecting to Facebook, I log in and use your sound. Without a broadcast sound, you're not connecting to Facebook at all, I'm just next to you. It seems to me that you'd need strictly more things to go right in the broadcast sound attack.

Whatever you have then, you can use to succeed in the regular attack. Where is the narrowing of the threat model?

The only thing I can think of is that the actual information of a log in is leaked, without it being exploitable because they don't have your password. This doesn't seem very useful by itself especially considering that they won't know which site you're logging into.
Clickable: http://www.nomyx.net/

There's also Dvorak http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/index.php/Main_Page , a card game with a similar idea. It's also playable online, though players have to enforce the rules manually.
It's fairly clear in the article that the parolees were not working on the grow side.

"One investigator said Mondella’s employees were likely unaware of the doings in that stealth basement. These employees include parolees that Mondella was known to hire from the nearby housing project, giving them a chance to not let a crime define their lives."
Final Cut Pro costs $299.99. Logic costs $199.99. We've all read that Spolsky article, I get it, but that doesn't mean it is wise or inevitable for Apple to make all their software free. Offering limited versions of FCP and Logic for free gives users software that compliments their hardware, but also gives Apple another user in the ecosystem who might step up to the real thing because they're already comfortable with the workflow.
Has anyone here used this service? It looks pretty interesting. I've tried to get an outside service to improve my pitch decks several times but the results were never as good as calling a buddy who worked at McKinsey.
I taught myself LaTeX to be able to write academic papers. It was invaluable in teaching me about a large part of the document processing ecosystem I knew nothing about and made me appreciate that WYSIWYG was a step backwards to some degree.

Strangely enough though for the current paper I have to write (> 20,000 but < 40,000 words) I have decided to see how far I can get with Markdown, Pandoc, and a lightweight custom pipeline. I'm going on a hunch but I have the feeling that this will work out ok. I may be wrong. Pandoc will auto-gen a table of contents from the Markdown headers. I'm going to try and grab citations straight from Zotero. AnnotateJS will give me endnotes but also allow others to make annotations and I should be able to generate HTML5+RDFa for semantic annotation. And yes, PDF because the university requires it -- I think I'll be able to go to PDF via LaTeX with Pandoc. Markdown does blockquotes too. I don't need complex Math, but I will need notation for propositional/predicate calculus. There really aren't that many _elements_ in an academic paper when you break it down to its constituent components and Markdown+extensions seems to have it all covered.

Pollen, which featured here recently, looks interesting too and I'm going to investigate that.

Edit: I've used Overleaf (and love it!) and even demo'd it to others and I think it's a great product. Scrivener is doing interesting things as well.
The NDC spec is still evolving (and suffering from a bit of mission creep). There's also the chicken and egg problem - airlines aren't going to invest in building in-house NDC based hosting and distribution platforms until there's enough market demand for it. Market demand wont appear until airlines start distributing over NDC.

I'd have thought too that the GDS providers aren't exactly thrilled by the prospect of being easily cut out of the distribution chain... There will still be a need for aggregators though since not all travel providers will have the technical know-how or desire to develop their own NDC capable platforms/software. NDC would just level the playing field a bit.
Yes, I can see where markdown is a good middle ground for that type of regular, consistent content. Out of curiosity, did you have to set up templates for the content to help the non-technical users, or was a markdown tutorial enough?
"Is this right?"

Yeah, I think this is the previously mentioned float performance thing.
Probably because the title isn't very informative
I use it very regular at work to document projects we are developing or to document software/practices at work. For my personal blog it is also my preferred syntax to edit articles. It is easy and very quick to pick-up.

I seldom need to switch to something else or it should be to design diagrams or imagery. Even code - using extensions to highlight stuff - works relatively well. The only thing I dislike is the table stuff which for me always involves some fiddling.

But to be perfectly honest I'm also thinking of looking into latex. I also use pandoc to convert my markdown files to PDF which uses latex templates if I’m not mistaken. For me personally it works and looks great but the company has invested a lot of resources in branding and creating some-kind of corporate identity.

So now they want all the documentation including the fancy headers/footers and I think the only way of inserting it with pandoc involves creating a latex template and using the fancyhdr (off the top of my head so I could be wrong) package. Definitely something that I need to look into.
>I am tired of this technology having to be re-invented time and time again.

So did Microsoft open source this? If not, quit complaining. Just because you saw a massive software engineering company doing something better doesn't mean everyone else who doesn't have access to it sucks for not reaching parity.
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I'm right with you there. On the other hand, I think it can be done, with the right leadership, and the right combination of circumstance, delicacy, and brute force. Historically, it happened very quickly in the 1950s/1960s, due in no small part to the arrival of television. When comfortable white America finally saw what was happening, out of sight, they became agents of change themselves. The distance from Brown vs Board of Education to MLK's assassination is only about ten years, but things changed tremendously in that time.

Likewise, I think the rise of easy cell phone recording and viral stories has the potential to change the situation very quickly. We got our first taste of this with Rodney King two decades ago, but it's really coming to the fore now. We're seeing police getting charged with murder now in cases where they would have gotten a commendation before, because the violence is recorded. I think we're only a few years out from body cameras being standard equipment.

I've already noticed a significant change in tone in discussions online, with a lot less reflexive defense of the police, and a lot less crypto-racist "thug" stuff. Progress is being made.
I've played a simplified game with friends - the only rule at the beginning describes the order of turns and that rules may be added by majority vote. We've often added variations of the rules in the version described here as well as the game goes on. One of the fun pieces is that winning conditions are undefined at the beginning, and the game often ends due to the implementation of some kind of vote magnifying rule.

Very fun with the right crowd.
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Why do you think that is? Can you give me a bit more info into your org?
Although this is good, all it saves is typing a few digits and checking a box "[ ] let's not do this again on this particular computer".

Other hardware solutions could be found. For instance, an app on the phone could receive a security token string, and use bluetooth to send it to the PC. Or, a QR code (or bar code) could be sent to the phone which pops up on the screen. This is held up to the PC's web cam which scans it.
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The Go to Folder feature does not show the current path when you're in a Finder window.

In Windows, you can modify the path, eg, change from C:\Users\Scott\Desktop to C:\Users\Fred\Desktop easily just by selecting and typing.

In OSX, the Go To Folder dialogue remembers the last path you entered. So yet another step to drag the current Finder's folder icon into it, and then modify. For example.
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That's a good summary, and the ability to easily convert to e.g. html is definitely a plus point for markdown. I always find however that I'd rather either work in html (for any web content), LaTeX (for any research papers or lengthy docs) or plain text (for notes)... I never found markdown quite useful enough in any of those cases (it has been a while since I last gave it a serious test though).
Yep, very familiar with how VCs essentially move money around from place to place waiting for opportunities to turn unrealized gains into realized.

But my original point stands. Investors are out to do one thing: make money. As soon as whatever they're doing stops making them money(on paper or otherwise) then they'll stop doing it.