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Cross-platform, open source, lightweight and C(++). The example code on the website could use a little clean-up, but it's fine. Perfect! Thank you, sir.
That's great! When I lived in CO I hiked some of the same 1-2 day loops over and over across different seasons (some hit the continental divide). Seeing the same trail change depending on time of year was great. My favorite time hiking is in the winter (talk about being completely alone!). The stillness is so quiet, and all you hear is the snow crunching beneath your boots or the actual snow falling.

The AT just seems anti-why I like to hike, and sounds more like a backpacking trip across Europe with your HS senior class.
Why? What special quality does Mark have?

He wasn't some genius programmer. He created a glorified forum (and in PHP).

He wasn't some genius businessman (evident from his early interviews). He created something at the right time, that got momentum because of that, and that attracted the right people to help make it a success business wise.

Would he have gotten somewhere else if it wasn't for that? Maybe, maybe not.

I don't see anything particularly convincing that he wouldn't have regressed to the mean.
What about AWS Aurora? I have not used it, but I definitely would if I was using MySQL.
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The argument that is made is that because you can entirely abolish a whole slew of agencies and other programs (welfare etc.) it's not as simple as just looking at current budgets, you need to factor in the savings you get from axing the agencies.

To be clear I'm not saying that it's viable, I'm just saying that your calculation is not the one proponents of the idea are using.
Urbit is the third one I meant.
Sure, no problem with that. I just don't understand why we can't call e.g. a buffer overflow in software X a buffer overflow in software X instead of "Adventures in Memoryland!!! The bug, that 0wnzors your boxorz!!".
Didn't have to be mentioned. It was obvious from context.

>I don't quite understand why it bothered you.

Because of the entitlement ("YOU have to do the work" etc) and the pissing on his contribution ("what's the point of linking to such articles" etc).
Handrails don't keep off-trail hikers from hiking off trail. Trail etiquette keeps people on trail. Respect to nature keeps people on trail.

Garbage cans in the middle of nowhere still need to be emptied or else they become full and no longer serve the need. A lot of these places are remote. It might take several hours to empty one trash can. Our parks barely have enough resources to maintain as they are. We shouldn't need to pay someone to hike in and remove your trash. I don't think it is too much to ask that if you hiked in with 5 full snickers bars that you hike out with their wrappers. Your pack always gets lighter as you go so there really is no excuse for not coming out with all your trash.
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my bad, I mixed up generic squared block in cities (turin, naples) with old roman squared blocks arrangements that survived today (the others)
Maybe it's a weird fetish of mine, but I always enjoy a good embeddable, scripting engine. It kind of brings me joy and hope. Can't say why. The more engines, the merrier.
so... Periscope/Meerkat on Facebook?

Actually, at second glance:

Facebook Mentions is only available to public figures with verified Pages.
In some states, drawing a salary after the noncompete offer is presented is "sufficient consideration".

In some European countries, you must be paid your salary or a significant fraction of your salary if you are laid off for the duration of the noncompete.

Fortunately, California bans noncompetes under section 16600 of the Business and Professions Code. Other states, or the Federal Government should sit up and take notice.
They will have to fight a lot of foes such as the Chamber of Commerce, and large corporations.

I have no problems with NDA's, but noncompetes are being pushed under the guise of protecting trade secrets, when really they are all about locking up the free movement of talent.
Except it won't necessarily match their previous salaries. There are a lot of high 5 digit and low six digit incomes in the social services job hierarchy.
I definitely remember playing these as a kid in the 90s, especially Magistral, and some sort of ship-torpedo game.

This, however, shows that the author didn't do their research:

> Strangest of all, however, is the lineup of radish pickers: after failed attempts by a mouse, a cat, a dog, a daughter, and a grandma, the vegetable can only be pulled up once the grandpa jumps in and the entire family works together to pull it out collectively.

That's not strange - that game is just based on a popular fairy tale where, well, you can guess exactly what happens in the fairy tale. It's not a long story.
This Platonic idea that just because it works on theory, therefore reality works just the same, is an old misunderstanding.

But before I criticize these "attempts" at solving this problem by these deft mathematicians, I'd like to see a single video example of 10 coin tosses all coming up either heads or tails.

After we can all see that this can happen, then we can start worrying about how much money a casino in the real world would charge for such game being played in the real world, by real players, with real coins.

It is amazing that out of all mathematicians listed on Wikipedia that attempted this, only one considered actually sampling (supposedly simulated coin tosses).

This can be easily simulated, but they'd rather stay within the comfy confines of calculation, so that presumably they can publish more papers.
I didn't say it was related.
I don't think many of the people you see in videos or in this article are doing months of planning. They buy a pack, quit their job and show up.
Here you go!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/secret-monkey-island-special...
It relies on WASAPI for Windows, so it should work on Vista which is the first version to introduce that API (unless I missed another requirement).

And as a side note, that is definitely the way to go. WASAPI is a massive improvement over previous windows audio APIs, especially for low latency / pro audio. I'm flabbergasted that some DAWs still don't support it.
How would you clean up the example code? I want the example code to be as clean as possible. Also, I must protest that it is C++. The library links against libc, not libstdc++, and the only non-C feature used in the source code is templates.
"global demand has outstripped supply since Delta started assembling a large and growing fleet in 2012, taking advantage of favorable rental terms and a drop in jet-kerosene prices that makes older planes attractive.

“They’re kind of the market-maker,” said Robert Agnew, president and chief executive officer of aviation consultant Morten Beyer & Agnew Inc. “If Delta weren’t there, the airplane might be struggling.”"

That's the core of the story. It could have been some other model instead. It'd be interesting to know what the circumstances were behind Delta picking the 717.
Maybe it isn't, but I have found the literature on the topic to be very clear in general. I do not find section 1.5 and 2.3 explicit at all.

Section 2.3 reads like a redefinition of the exponential family and its link to the maximum entropy principle. I think the idea is to optimize the sufficient statistics, but it's not clear.

Section 1.5... well you talk about two dimensional translational symmetries, and then make a link with position and momentum, but where is that coming from? This seems merely like an artifact of looking at two dimensional translational symmetries, and not at the general case. Again, what does the quantum analogy bring to the table? I think - though it's not clear - that what you're suggesting is drawing the latent noise following a distribution which is reflects the expected symmetry in the manifold.

So what is the takeout? Are you attempting to parametrize max-entropy distribution using the symmetries as constraints?
If they actually went out of business, I'm sure they'd to something to remedy the situation.
Miracles of tax distortion, you mean.
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I heard "Always carry out more than you brought in," and try to go with that in mind when I can manage a good hike.
AWS Aurora seems to go at the problem differently. They spread the disk out over three AZs in 10GB chunks. So if the instance powering the Aurora db engine crashes, a new one spins up quickly and begins pulling from the same disks.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/
Bizarre questions about my living space aside, arguing that the federal budget is "not at all hard to understand" is patently ridiculous.
Let's not even get into how she tweeted a picture of the text of another tweet, which is a rather roundabout way of just retweeting something.
Heh, this morning I was thinking about this in the shower, don't know why.

The worst for me was the part in the sewer, where you had to write "look at shit". I only knew the word's pronunciation. Spent days on the combinations: shed, ched, poop, and so on.
I had to check this to see if it was true...and it is!? Why are they doing this? You can't even click on it to get taken to an email address or some other way to collect money from you.
Here's a link to the original dungeon generation demo that Phi Dinh posted using this algorithm: http://tinykeep.com/dungen/ (Flash required).

He kept an interesting blog about the development of Tiny Keep and added other posts about improvements to the generation mechanics for the dungeons, including this nifty one about generating locked areas that Ben Jones worked on: http://blog.tinykeep.com/2013/09/just-sneaky-quick-update-fr...
Are you familiar with the AT? It's over 2000 miles and much of it is fairly remote. Most of what you're suggesting is nonsensical for use on the AT.

- Handrails would be fairly useless as no one would be around to enforce the rules. Eventually they'd rust and fall into disrepair (visit just about any state park in Appalachia for examples).

- Trash cans need to be emptied. Logistically, how would that work? Also, they would fall into disrepair.

- There are large portions of the AT where a fire pit would be somewhat impractical due to limited space.

- Patrol 2000 miles?

- A new trail wouldn't be the AT anymore. There are already plenty of other trails in appalachia.
From perhaps false memory, I have the impression some Antonov jets were made with improved/gravel airstrips in mind?
If the developer writes code that handles credit card information, absolutely. Most organizations utilize third parties to handle credit card info so they don't have to be PCI compliant. Even then, it helps to know something about PCI because the developer may be storing more information than needed.

In general I think every developer should receive secure coding training. Most developers don't...
Thanks to aphyr for the testing. Certainly it will help focus efforts on improving things.

I am a MariaDB contributor and operate Percona Cluster in production, so I can talk a bit about Galera.

It's recommended that writes go to one master, rather than be distributed across the nodes. That will help with isolation issues.

Also, some commenters have complained about year-old releases. PXC has improved significantly in the past year regarding manageability, so you may want to try again. For example, the startup script has a bootstrap option now.

For most people, vanilla async MySQL replication works best, esp. 5.6. But Galera gives you another option when you need something else.

Having said that, it takes 5-10 years for a database or filesystem to mature, so anybody using Galera now is an early adopter.
http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/

The SSA is currently handling some 64 million beneficiaries.

I'm not contending that it'd be easy, but it's a scaling problem at this point. Systems exist to handle it already.
For me, part of it is literally the whiteboard. I do almost nothing in real life on a whiteboard. I don't like writing on them. I'd much prefer a pencil and paper on a desk.

I'd even somewhat prefer a chalkboard.
I predict in 5 years... this will be the standard.

Its not so much about wanting to bolt onto amazon's eco for stuff -- but just allowing an org to focus.

AWS allows for an ops team to completely have no concern for hardware. Lovely.

I also don't want an ops team doing DB cluster mgmt.

I want to deploy and delve into my data.

I want my data/eng/dev/ops teams to be pummeling the shit out of my data without concern for the instances/hw/cluster.

aurora adds to the cloud fabric.

One thing amazon is moving to is to define compute capacity vs defining instances at all.

Their vision of abstraction is amazing.
If anyone's interested, there is a Reddit post explaining this and an interactive demo from 2 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1dlwc4/procedural_...

http://tinykeep.com/dungen/
> any plans on support OSS for things like BSD/Solaris ?

BSD/Solaris support is within scope, however I am now going to focus my development efforts on Genesis DAW [1]. So the way that these other backends can get support is:

* someone contributes code

* enough is contributed financially[2] to support me working on more backends.

> plans to support writing out to disk with even a single format, like .au, or .wav ?

Would you like to file an issue and explain the use case? Let's talk it over.

[1]: http://genesisdaw.org/

[2]: https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/gdaw
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> if you can't run the program in your head, then you simply don't understand what's going on

Agreed, and sometimes it's surprisingly tricky to describe what's happening not in terms of the coding abstractions we all know and love, but just in plain English.

I remember I did a contract years ago for a PhD student which was basically doing some statistical analysis of a massive dataset. When I was doing progress reports she'd often drill down and ask, out of genuine curiosity (she was an academic, go figure :-) just how the computer was doing the things I was describing.

I couldn't use abstractions like 'well I just loop over this set and accumulate x and...' because that's gibberish to her - so I had to kind of break down what was actually going on in plain English (obviously with a degree of abstraction from the hardware etc). I did so very awkwardly because I was used to just 'thinking in code', but remember it was very helpful for me to be forced to do this because it really tested that I actually understood what my algorithms were doing.

But obviously there's a limit to the usefulness of this line of thinking. Abstractions are always present - ad adsurdium, we'd never talk about electrons flying around etc. It ceases (except in extremely rare exceptions) to be useful to describe what is actually happening in more detail than 'this black box does X, and I use it with another black box that does Y to achieve Z' right about the level where you're writing 'real' applications with frameworks and whatnot.
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Do you guys consider relocation and help with visas and what not?
> I just don't understand why we can't call e.g. a buffer overflow in software X a buffer overflow in software X instead of "Adventures in Memoryland!!! The bug, that 0wnzors your boxorz!!".

Since you appear to be sincere, it's because sometimes a lot of people like to interact in human ways, which includes a bit of storytelling to relieve the monotony of just the facts.
Are you aware of the state of arcade games in the US in 1959.
You're welcome, and don't be afraid to open an issue if you run into a problem.
This should really serve as a lesson for startups on how not get your name out there.

In an industry (infosec) that's built on reputation and experience, you can't just go into it and start running your company like the "Price is Right" and offer all kinds of gimmicks to get people to buy into your product.

The way you win is to humbly hand over your source code to the community, have them pen test it and then graciously accept any advice or flaws they point out. Then work tirelessly to make it better and prove you take the people and the other companies in your space seriously.

Infosec is no joke either and you shouldn't treat the people in the industry like a bunch of idiots. This is a prefect example of a lifelong sales guy, using worn out sales pitches to try and sell his product like an infomercial.
A coin toss isn't exactly 50% for both sides in a real life scenario, hence the difficulty to reproduce the experiment exactly like its theoretical description. A sequence of 10 coin tosses resulting in heads/tails is not impossible even if it is hard to reproduce, it simply has an absurdly low probability of ocurring.

This focus on the theoretical side of things, the 'comfy confines of calculation', isn't a bad thing, the paradox is still an interesting thought experiment.
I completely agree with you here. It's also quite good to practice optimizing or iterating over your implementation of something mentally before commit to typing it out, certainly before repeatly running your changes until it just works.
Mike could you do a breakdown of how to write a simple version of soundflower on OS X , say if I wanted to apply a global system wide audio compression to my audio ?

Apple used to have some sample code but I can no longer find it.
There's literally thousands of scientific papers in disciplines of environmental science, agronomical sciences, glaciology, geology, oceanography, climate science, and the dozens of biological subdisciplines which are documenting this.

Do you want to bring on the evidence or do I need to quote a few hundred papers authored by experts in their respective fields?
> I wish more companies supported people like Stripe does for Aphyr. Research is so valuable, but there's so little incentive to be in academia.

If you're talking about incentives, don't forget that Kyle's research is some of the most commercially useful research out there at the moment, and Kyle is also skilled at implementing his ideas (a rare combination among researchers). I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised that he's putting so much effort into these blog posts rather than writing a string of journal papers.
More generally I would also recommend: https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev
I don't get your idea with sampling. It will work in practice.
To see that yourself: write a program that repeats this experiment again and again, compute the averages of the winnings, and you will see that they cannot be bounded by any constant. Or use a real coin and a piece of paper, though this will require a lot of patience.
Or rent a VPS for 45 minutes at minimum wage.
It might have been a different model, but it is not obvious which one would it be
That one segment has some contenders: fokker 100, MD80 (big with AA), even older 737 models in that seat range

But I guess Delta made that model work for them
That would be a pretty weak DRM implementation, and unlikely to be used in the real world.

(Or... How many people pay for WinRAR?)
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We're talking about a ~3 trillion dollar proposal here. Understanding the minute details isn't important.
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I actually have both! I almost never use affinity photo because I find myself spending more time trying to work the Ui than I do on the work itself - the personas are clunky and the app is bloody expensive
When I stumbled upon this project earlier today I was already looking for my credit card when I opened the kickstarter page. But then I was disappointed, that the project wasn't to come in the original format but in a simple print of the scanned pages, even with the binder holes showing. Jason Scott's client's project would have been way cooler. (Sorry, I'm a sucker for such stuff)
Forward error correction implies extra latency, so of course it has to make up for enough packet loss to provide a net reduction in latency to be useful.

Is there a generic UDP-based FEC transport library that one could use to wrap a simple Opus or FLAC stream and test this out? Edit: I found http://openfec.org/ but it seems to implement something other than packet loss recovery
It if not a vulnerability in the PDF.js engine themselves.
The paradox does not depend on the fairness of the coin.

A real coin toss is, say, at least 25% probability for heads and at least 25% probability for tails. Therefore you can multiply the winnings by 4 and not by 2, which will give you a divergent series even with a real, "unfair" coin.
These people do not how to make proper or consistent bar graphs. 19% vs 22% (difference of 3%) = huuuuuge gap between the two, in the next graph they have 36% vs 50% (difference of 14%) = tiny gap between the two. It's pretty much like this the whole article. Pretty hard to take it seriously if the graphs are so bad.
Interesting. Since you could just run the C preprocessor on it (with, e.g. gcc -E) to expand all the macros, that seems like an unusually poor method of obfuscation.
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Back when I flew regularly the MD-80 and derivatives where my favorite planes to fly because of 5 across rows with wider seats than the 6 abreast 737 which is like flying in a cattle car. My least favorite for long haul trips was the 777. Twelve hours where the seat armrest would go up only part way was too much. It made it very difficult to take advantage of adjacent vacant seats or just cuddle with my wife.
The faster you're going though the more stable you are. That has to be gyroscopic since the physics of the situation is unchanged otherwise. If you look at bicycle racers flying down the hill you'll not discern any balancing movement at all. It's minute. However at slow speed it's easy to feel yourself balancing.

The science museum demo I mentioned is done with small wheels. Even smaller than your average bicycle. The gyroscopic effect is quite significant. Do this at home: Put handles on the side of a bicycle wheel. Spin it (doesn't need to be that fast). Now try to turn it. You'll know what I'm talking about once you've done this experiment.

That said because bicycles are smaller, your mass is larger, and they're typically not going as fast the effect of moving your center of mass e.g. is a lot larger and counter-steering is less noticeable. On a motorcycle there's no way you can't notice it and it was only after I started riding motorcycles that I was more aware of this on the bicycle. Once you go back from your motorcycle to your bicycle you will do this more consciously at speed... I agree with your description of this as some sort of continuum, with less mass, speed and smaller wheels the relative weight of the different effects changes. Clearly on a stationary motorcycle or bicycle counter-steering isn't going to do much :)

And yeah, counter-steering is relative to your lean angle, however at slow speeds if you're leaning then you need the throttle to take you out of the lean otherwise you'll just fall over... At speed it's easy to flick the bike quickly from side to side just by counter-steering both ways...
Tossing the coins can be useful to help our intuition, but we have a pretty good understanding of how they work, to put it mildly. I think it's fair to assume that a mathematician isn't going to change their mind after a quick experiment.
That's a great resource! Thanks :)
Again, patrolling a 2000-mile stretch isn't difficult at all. Whether it makes sense depends on the trail population, not the trail length. I can match your faux incredulity at "patrol 2000 miles?" with "walk 2000 miles?".

Equipment maintenance is logistically much like patrolling. It requires presence (though at a much lower level).

Handrails will still work without enforcement. They'll be less effective, but they'll still decrease the level of people going off-trail.
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