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I recall the ted talk http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_abo..., if a black man is found guilty of murdering a white woman in Alabama, he is 400 times more likely to be sentenced to death compared to a white man found guilty of murdering a black woman.

I sometimes think about what the reaction would be if statistics showed that the German courts disproportionately often decided to sentence Jews to death?

Perhaps there are some things that could be improved within the penal system in the United States?
The (few) scenes that took place at school were filmed in Stuyvesant High School (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School) which I attended. It always felt very appropriate - Stuy is a specialized math and science school.

At any rate, I can confirm that the "pool on the roof" myth is indeed alive and well. Upperclassmen used to try and sell "pool keys" to incoming students for $10 each. Absurd as that was, there was a thriving market for escalator keys - to turn on or off the many escalators in the 10-story building - so it wasn't that far-fetched.
You do understand that power is, right now at the very moment in history, far, far more federated than it has ever been, right?
It's not about trust...it's about efficiency.

In any blockchain network, users implicitly trust the developers of the software. If you use Bitcoin, you trust that Gavin Andresen & the core developers are making changes to the client software in the best interest of the network. If you disagree with any implemented changes (say they decide to increase the hard limit) then you can either refuse to update your client or move to another currency. Refusing to update only works if you have enough other users to stay on the same client version as you.

In this case, assuming each bank has equal representation on designing/maintaining the blockchain, the developers are the users, so there is no need for implicit trust. It'll just make it easier to do transfers between banks without a 3rd party.
Okay... How many times have you watched it to notice that minor detail? Just curious.
I think comparing cities against cities might be a more apt comparison, especially normalized for available investment amounts, population, etc. Remember that a number of US states rival single European nations in GDP, population, physical size, etc. I'd rather talk about Berlin vs Austin, London vs Manhattan, Paris vs Boston.

Second, is '# of $1B startups' even an important metric? Just like some employees prefer Europe for worker protections, smaller work weeks, paid maternity leave, healthcare unattached to employment status, etc, so some startups might find that their success has more to do with the markets they find themselves operating in and serving, rather than total income.
I'm quite certain that's sarcasm. If it were actually true you'd have already googled the subject and be quietly reading right now.

Edit: what the hell, I'll play your game.

"Critics of the TPP reference the failures of NAFTA, which was first conceived during this period by the original champion of trickle-down, Ronald Reagan. Leading up to the 1994 elections, NAFTA garnered bipartisan support, but lone wolf, Independent candidate Ross Perot warned of the "giant sucking sound" that America would hear if NAFTA passed and American jobs were drawn south. Global Trade Watch's assessment of NAFTA's "20 year legacy" demonstrates just how right Perot was. An estimated one million jobs have been lost to NAFTA. It's put downward pressure on wages, and exacerbated America's income gap. And while pre-NAFTA, the U.S carried a trade surplus with Mexico, and was just $26 billion in the hole with Canada--as of 2014, we had a combined trade deficit with both countries of $177 billon."

From the following article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-gautney/why-the-transp...

So, in summary: it suppresses wages, costs jobs, and exacerbates income inequality. Market efficiencies created by globalization also have a tendency to drive all but the largest players out of any given market. Surely you don't claim lowered wages and pressure on small to medium sized businesses to try to compete on a global scale are in any way beneficial to the larger populace? You don't honestly believe having access to cheap goods is more beneficial than plentiful, well-paying jobs?

Edit: some additional light reading:
http://www.citizen.org/nafta
I'd encourage you to speak your mind. I purposely upvote comments I don't agree with as long as they're constructive to the conversation.
Nice work. Very interesting. Canvas is such a fun API.
You're not factoring in lawyers. They make a big difference. It has more to do with money and less to do with race.
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I would've thrown a LISP or Scheme interpreter in there given (a) what McCarthy accomplished by inventing it and (b) how much has been done with it. It was to non-imperative programming what Fortran was to imperative programming.
You're right, extending the prototype of builtin objects is almost always a bad idea.

See String.prototype.contains → String.prototype.includes because mootools extended the String prototype[1]

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Maximizing hashing power is only needed in a public blockchain. If the pool is closed, you can force each node to provide a fixed power, and monitor the total power. If it increases over nodes*power-per-node, all nodes shut down automatically.
Admittedly, this is not conclusive, that's why I said "Allegedly".

http://gothamist.com/2010/07/30/dog_tooth_in_chinese_food_pr...
I have a crawler setup the pulls a few million pages per day. The main constraint is not in the crawler setup, but rather in how much load the subject sites can withstand. If I don't throttle down the traffic, the sites will be dos'ed very quickly. Of course, this is mainly a problem because I crawl a lot of pages from each site - if you have a crawler that crawls a few pages from a lot of sites, you would have a different scenario.
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Provide assurances that nobody is modifying the data behind the scenes (i.e. there's no room for making a change and deleting it from the change logs). They probably have other solutions for this too, but the blockchain is likely simpler to implement and validate.

Just because you have a contract doesn't mean you have an way to prove when someone has broken it. When financial data is involved, you can't trust anyone.
Grew up in North Texas, we all said point too.
Nice article, but the whole thing can be summed up by "read Blue Ocean Strategy".
As a piece of writing it's excellent. Quoting it in the company of (most) contemporary historians is not going to end well, though.
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> If if you were to build a unicorn you wouldn't be able to do anything with it except maybe cut it up and cook it in a sous vide: provided it wasn't imported from Spain or Poland in which case the farmers would drive tractors into Paris and set piles of shit on fire in protest.

I died.
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> Banks don't operate on trust

Can you spell LIBOR? Banks do operate on trust, which is what allowed the LIBOR conspiracy to take place.

Unless you can list here the "checks and balances and intermediaries" that failed during all that fake setting of LIBOR rates.
I just recently discovered from Wikipedia that Gibson was inspired by the urban drawings of Jean "Moebius" Giraud and other artists who worked on the magazine "Heavy Metal". It makes a lot of sense to understand his key cyberpunk novels as essentially visual and "urbanistic" experiences, i.e. not driven by a hard sf take on data visualization.
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The likely result of that is even more routers running unpatched vulnerable software.
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Thanks for this, I agree it makes sense that they would have, I was just a bit disappointed that Bruce didn't enumerate any of this in his post. In fairness, all of this stuff is probably "duh" to him, and his normal audience, but it's not so obvious to everyone.

Here's another thought: what if the NSA hacked Hacking Team, and they were also the ones to release all the data publicly.

Re: #3 – do you have any links to that info? (I'm not challenging you to prove what you said, I'm just curious, if you don't have anything readily available, I'll Google search like a good Internet commenter :))
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I guess you only could get "triggered" if you were raped or something? Did all of those students get raped at least once?
One of the things I love about this movie is how much it got right. The general attitude of the time, the feeling that we had in that era. This film shows what it feels like to spend all night reading through hexdumps trying to solve a complex riddle. I don't know anything else that captures that.

Of course it had to be "inaccurate" to show visually what that feels like without it being super boring. It glorifies a particular set of attitudes and styles that many of us were a part of in that era.

Love it.
Money and race are certainly not independent of one another in a lot of cases in the US
Here's a thought: these people went through hell in order to get out of the misery they lived in. That's not exactly what I have in mind when I think of underachievers with no work ethos.
You know, i am from russia and thought the same way. At some point of our startup journey i met some US startups. I know that they have no customers, but instead of writing noting about customers, they create solid page that describes in details how they help people. And this is game changer - you will never think that this is bullshit and company is weak.
Thanks for the reply! I'll take a look at it soon, I'll definitely grab these again. I think the version I used was from July, so it's definitely outdated.
He wrote with his wife, winning a joint Pulitzer, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
I think those working in online poker etc would disagree - the local monopoly was protected very strongly.

And there are the non tariff barriers look how hard it is to import eu cars
> Instead, it will be for times when clicking "like" on "sad" posts felt insensitive.

Of course, the most important part was the last sentence of the article.

Calling it the "hug" button would work better than "dislike".
Did they have any choice?
Well, part of Libertarianism is opposite of egalitarianism. Left-Libertarianism isn't, and I'd wager there are quite a few around here, which may be confused with their right-wing counterparts when speaking about many issues regarding the State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
The US Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, does not answer to a body of citizens, unless by that you mean its shareholders.
It would make sense for them to. Though, they would have to be quick to utilize the vulnerabilities before they got patched, unlike those found in-house.
Curious which Texas startups are considered unicorns? Last article I read didn't mention any.

Google only pulled up this recent article: http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2015/09/sor...

Are there unicorns coming out of Dallas and Houston, but not Austin? I find that hard to believe.
But with some engineering, do you need Banks at all?

Can you do crypto currency loans and payments p2p without the intermediary?
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The "empathy" point is the real driver here. Everyone on Facebook has seen a dead pet/sick parent/horrible international tragedy/etc. post. Up until now, you either comment (effort) or "like," which feels wrong. I don't want to "like" your dog's death, so I do nothing.

If I do nothing, that's less interaction on Facebook. If there's a third option — "dislike" — then I (and many others) will use it and provide more interaction on Facebook. I think +1 or "hug" is a better fit but regardless, it means a net-increase in interactions.

More interaction by users is better for them. Surprised this didn't happen ages ago.
it's been a while since I've watched the movie: what's the context and what do you think it would be?
I haven't seen any serious tech companies in Germany that don't require at least basic English skills.
occurrence of rain or lack thereof is not like flipping a coin

Yes, absolutely. El Nino is a fine reason to believe that the pattern will change. At a decadal scale, there is reason to believe that recent drought is a predictor of future rain. My point though was that there was not (a priori) a reason to believe that "It's been 500 years since California has been this dry" would imply "we are due" for a 1000 year storm.
Or Sneakers, that's my favorite Hollywood hacker flick. It's a little campy in parts but surprisingly authentic and a lot of fun to watch.
You might want to benchmark where your software is spending its time. A typical overhead is in the connection time. You may be able to speed things up with a local dns cache and by using http keep-alive. You also generally want to do a lot of parallel requests, since most time would be spent waiting for the subject site to respond.
I highly disagree. Uber is like Amazon; it could stop expanding and investing tomorrow and immediately start turning a huge profit.

They charge 10% of all taxi rides with a marginal cost of maintaining some server software and a mobile app. No cars, no human dispatchers, no medallions, no nothing. It's a great business.
The article is a very nice tutorial on asynch-io. I really enjoyed it. But as the authors themselves said the web-crawler they built in this article is just a toy.

Writing an efficient and _well behaved_ web crawler is imho quite a complicated undertaking. Others here have already pointed out that it's more or less a scalability problem, hence, a number doesn't make sense. reinhardt has provided a list of links - which from a quick glance - look very interesting and might bring you further.
I'm a mathematician and I'll be the first to say, this "declarative = mathematical" meme is completely inaccurate. If you look at most mathematical theorems and proofs, they are mostly imperative.

Take for example the proof there are infinitely many primes. "Assume there are only finitely many primes (assume: imperative). Let them be called p_1,...,p_n (let: imperative). Let q=(p_1...p_n)+1 (let: imperative). Then q is not divisible by any of p_1,...,p_n, so q is prime (this is the only non-imperative line in the proof). Contradiction, discard the assumption and conclude there are infinitely many primes (imperative)."

The biggest "non-imperative" feature of mathematics is the way functions are first-class objects. But that's only considered to be "non-imperative" because of a historical fluke, there's no intrinsic reason why "first class functions" = "non-imperative", it's just that the early languages happened to be that way.
I'm fairly certain that even if you control for income and education, black people are still treated more harshly by the justice system.

I won't venture to guess whether there are regional differences as well...
And yet race predicts economic disparities quite well, so while access to lawyers may be a second-order effect of racism it is nonetheless a real one.

Now I certainly don't suggest that race is the only factor here. The USA is a very classist society, not least due to a residual Calvinism that equates earthly wealth with a sign of God's favor and thus some inherent moral superiority, a view which seems to have been implicitly incorporated into the platform of one major political party.
Would you considered moving to another EU country? The opportunities are different, but the bureaucracy definitely more friendly in the UK for example.
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Ok, I just went and had a look at the Times website you minimum subscription is around $80USD a year but you can up to around 500USD a year. Lets round 800,000 at 100US a year is 80MM right?

Thats a shit tone of journalists employed if you ask me.
I think you are overstating the importance of languages. As a counter example, one has to only look at large European companies, like Seimens, Airbus, Philips, Volkswagen, etc. Their multinational spread transcends language barriers. Why would this be a problem for start ups? India has several languages and is insanely diverse. In this way it is different from China. But what works for companies trying to scale up in India is that most people have a functional knowledge of English.

But I think you are right on the money about regulation. For better and for worse, the regulatory framework is far more liberal in the US compared to Europe. Even though Indian regulations are much worse than Europe and often more draconian, the Indian unicorns have flourished in niches where regulation doesn't matter or are more rational because they came about more recently.
I think that's a legitimate question. Long ago in college I met some libertarians handing out literature. I'd say they were thoroughly egalitarian ("believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities"). One of their core points was that authoritarianism (what I'd call the true opposite of libertarianism) tended toward deep inequality.

But the modern American version of libertarianism seems to have become something very different than what I saw of it in the late 80's.
>Pu-238 cannot be used to make atomic bombs, nor is it particularly useful for fueling nuclear reactors, which are widely considered too controversial and expensive for practical use in space missions.

Look up the difference between Pu-238 and Pu-239 (what most nuclear warheads carry) and deduce why shooting a rocket filled with Pu-239 might be a bad idea.
It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is working on a Dislike button
Zuckerberg knows that the dislike button would many people stop from posting their trash. Perhaps the will just rename the like button to whatever fits the context best based on the posted event (probably needs to be categorized).
If Scotland were to secede, I have no doubts Scotland would join the EU and the UK would leave.

England does not see itself as part of Europe. If anything, England sees Europe as an extension of France. And England hates France with a vengeance. Geography and history aside, the UK is not a European country at heart.
> The companies that run [private prisons] ... lobby the government to keep the prisoner supply high.

To be fair, this is just as much of a problem with government-run prisons as it is with private ones.
How idempotence has to do with anything? A regex match is supposed to return a result, not perform effects…
Perfect timing for the Art of the Title to release this interview with the creators of the opening sequence: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/hackers/
The innovation of Bitcoin is achieving consensus about information cryptographically protected against tampering with pseudonymity. Neither reaching consensus nor cryptographically protecting data is new, it's really only the added pseudonymity. If you don't need it, you can build much more efficient systems without the need for a proof of work or stake or whatever.
There's a huge network effect in startups. Once the financing structure, the management skills, and technical know-how are in a place, companies start (or move) there, which in turn brings in even more skilled work force and VCs. How many articles have we seen about governments trying to create The Next Silicon Valley and failing after dropping loads of cash?

And over the short run the talent picture is a zero sum game - Europeans who moved to SF to start their company are potential founders Europe doesn't have any more.

Also, don't underestimate the draw of US universities. We get people from all over the world coming to the US for their graduate degrees and many of them stay.
This web page is pretty image-heavy though. Lazy loading optimizes for the reader who reads partway through and abandons reading the rest of the page.
Not yet; please see the thread at

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/if-when-will-le-support-...
Yes they work together to help us ignore the serious problems we have with both. "Oh, the fact that cops beat up poor blacks is because they're poor, not black, so it's OK!" "The terrible public schools that the poor have to use don't seem so bad when you control for race!"
Will programmers be the only ones not contracting Dutch Disease?
Yes, list comprehensions can take care of some of these, but you're completely missing the entire point.

The point was that writing something like

lambda item: item[0]

in your code is inferior to

lambda (k, v): k

in terms of readability and comprehensibility. It is both longer and it also doesn't document the fact that the item is semantically a key-value pair.

The problem is not (and has never been) whether something is "necessary" or "possible". Tuple unpacking obviously completely unnecessary to begin with, it has nothing to do with whether this is done in a parameter or not. The problem is whether the code is expressed better via unpacking.
actually cisco does have a web interface of course if your a pro you turn it off before it ever gets any where near your live network.
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I think that's very much overreading it. I read this as them seeing the boffins saying "OMG BLOCKCHAIN" and the pop press articles glorifying Bitcoin. And then saying, "Well, let's hedge our bets and put a tiny amount of money into learning more about this just in case it really does matter."

As you say, though, the shared ledger is easier to build, so my guess is this won't amount to much.
Think of their current carbon footprint, which requires reams of paper to be printed and shipped offsite every single day. How many forests per day are consumed internationally?

Now, switch that to hydroelectrically powered mining datacentres. Net win? I suspect so.
I'm desperate to "retire" by making enough of a nest egg to live off the returns. Some things I'd love to do if I had the time:

* Improve my culinary skills. Some recipes require all day to do "right", and I need to take short-cuts in order to use the 30 minutes - 1 hour I have per day.

* Recreational programming. Few people who are good at numeric programming also have the free time to just "play". Procedural generation, using the latest/greatest visual processing algorithms, automatically integrating real-time data feeds into a "game" of sorts. I hate that I'm using my creativity to generate excel reports that mostly get consumed by programs.

* Music theory. I'd love to know more here.

* Home improvement / homesteading. It would be great to have to time to make my living space better fit for my preferences.

* Volunteering and advocacy. There are a lot of low paying problems in the world that need good motivated minds working on them.

* Art projects. I loved art in college, but never had the time to pursue it in my professional life.

* Personal Health. I love to run and open water swim. Both of these require me to have good weather and be in the right physical state to make use of that weather. Having more free time maximizes my chance to exercise under optimal conditions.

I think it helps that most of these things are things I can do alone and do not necessarily require coordination with other people. The author seems to stress how lonely it is to not have enforced scheduled social time.
I'm with you. I speak Romanian but it's totally worthless compared to English. It's a shame that European countries (especially poor ones) don't switch to English immersion schooling to give their students a chance in life.
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That's a great point. Whoever these R3 people are, I'm sure they'll rake in some good cash irrespective of whatever benefits are provided... ;)