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> What was the percentage of blacks and/or women at Lotus notes when Mitch sold?

> How many low-income/minority households is Mitch within walking distance of from his Berkeley compound?

> Diversity for thee, but not for me.

Can I ask you a quick question here? What does any of this matter? Diversity isn't about protecting yourself from character assassination. It's about promoting fairness, equality, and opportunity for everyone in society.

If you look in the past of anyone, you will find things they regret and things that may draw censure from the pro-diversity and intersectional feminist mindset. That's natural. That's to be expected. Society is, by any reasonable and several reproducible metrics, extremely biased in favor of white men. We all grew up influenced by that society. It is therefore almost inevitable that anyone with these sorts of experiences has and will continue to have both privilege and mistakes in their past.

What matters is going forward, how we all take these things we've been fortunate enough to be handed (along with the misfortunes and difficulties we've endured) and use those to promote a fairer, more just world for those who come after us.

We can sit here and argue if this messenger is the ideal messenger. Which is odd, because in many other fields we view past mistakes as a teaching opportunity. Ultimately, the people in power should cede and share some of that good fortune and cultural windfall to create a more equal world rather than waiting for history to repeat itself with violent uprisings. History suggests that such uprisings are not kind to even bystanders.

> Why can't all this under-utilized talent create a tech company dominated by blacks and women? Why not create a Meyerhoff like program to prove your hypothesis ...

Because creating an environment that mimics the societal advantages white men get in the US and most of the western world is infeasibly expensive.

I mean, seriously. How would you even? You'd have to raise kids from birth in a theme park with meticulous care to shield them from the deleterious effects of racism and sexism.

> rather than ask me to subscribe to the latest social engineering fad?

Progressivism isn't a fad. It's the consistent direction of society since the dark ages.
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> I though it might be hard puzzle games, so I built this:
>
> http://store.steampowered.com/app/363670

From the trailers, I can't really see this as a puzzle game. For me, examples of puzzle games are rather

* most games of Zachtronics (but in particular Ironclad Tactics is not)
http://www.zachtronics.com/
* the Hexcells series
* Antichamber
* The Bridge
* Sigils of Elohim (but even "The Talos Principle" only in small parts (which does not mean that it's a bad game))
etc.

For me, a puzzle game is really about solving difficult problems in a rather relaxing way. In other words: Whether you are able to solve a level will only depend on your capability of puzzle solving (i.e. intellect) and not your reaction times.

Most puzzle platformers do not satisfy this criterion, so I mostly can't consider them as puzzle games (which does not mean they are bad games, but often bad puzzle games).
reCAPTCHA switched away from digitizing books simply because it was no longer a good test for human vs robot -- the robots were better at it than humans.

"[Google's research shows that] today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult variant of distorted text at 99.8% accuracy. Thus distorted text, on its own, is no longer a dependable test"

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-rob...

But lots of sites depend on reCAPTCHA, it would have been unreasonable to just shut it down and break a huge swath of the internet because it had achieved the "we could digitize just about any book written in latin script" goal.
I think yes. This is what their `about` [0] page says:

LinuxBBQ is a multi-purpose operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux "sid" branch, spiced up with kernels and tools from siduction, grml and our users!

[0] - http://linuxbbq.org/about.html
And they've also used math to lose it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed
I would go so far as to say that any static language without some form of generics will eventually get them. Even in C, the preprocessor is often (ab)used for this use.
As someone who frequently watches videos, changing the tempo is very underrated, as there's usually no good reason to waste time watching people talk at their natural speed. I used to do this with VLC (it can stream YouTube), but YouTube's HTML5 player now implements tempo adjustment as well, and I use the ImprovedTube Chrome extension to set the tempo to 1.5x by default. It can be conveniently changed with the keyboard as well (Ctrl+< and Ctrl+>). Discovering this has been a game changer with regard to watching technical videos.
It takes more than a little math. I hang out in stock market chats that have a lot of programmer trying to do just this, and this comic is completely accurate: http://xkcd.com/1570
I don't have to find a way to come up with all that money.

New drug development is entirely optional. The world will not stop turning if we never have another pill to make your dick hard, or add four weeks to a terminal cancer prognosis.
Really cool project, not so cool website. Here's some feedback:

* Took me a minute to realize I can't scroll when my mouse is outside the center container

* Drop the sticky header/footer (let them scroll with the content)

* Add a bit more padding / line-spacing on the content on most pages (especially the Install page)

* Optimize (scale down?) the images on the support page so they load quickly (they seem pretty heavy)

Great work, though!
This is really cool. Our desire for technology has touched so many places on earth already, and finally we can take it back to our roots -- where life on earth began -- and destroy those ecosystems as well.

The absolute best part is that there's almost no oversight. No hippie can afford a sub that takes them to the bottom of the ocean, nor can they chain themselves to an underwater vent. Finally, resource extraction can happen without the interference of progress-hating communists and shortsighted government regulations.
A few things here:

1) What/where exactly are they using GlusterFS for? Has Gluster fixed their scaling problems yet? Specifically the issue where new storage spaces/nodes were only available to new directories and files, but not existing directories? Granted, the last time I looked at this was 2009 or so, but it was a flaw due to their "no master node" topology.

2) FB has an entire team to manage Hadoop/HBase. This shows just how much of a beast that stack is. Anyone who has run Hadoop on "Internet time" knows what I'm talking about. It's great at running time insensitive, deferred compute jobs in an academic or scientific setting. It's really hard to keep it all 100% running in an on-demand setting. Aside, I couldn't imagine just working on 1 product in an operations setting as my full-time job. Boredom/fatigue must be a problem on that team.

3) I'd like to see more information on the networking side. What transport protocol? How large are the average updates in frame size? Etc etc.

We've built something similar to Gorilla in-house, so I'm happy to see that we've come to some of the same conclusions.
> tail call optimisation is not possible in any language.

Afaik it is possible in racket. Read the note at the end here: http://matt.might.net/articles/lexers-in-racket/
I have NFC (Galaxy S4) and never used it to pay, still would miss it. You can easily send links or photos, I did this a while back with a friend who has a SONY Z3 and it worked flawlessly. Also I can pair my wireless headset with my phone using NFC.

I can use Google Pay in the future with my over 2 years old device. Apple users have to buy a new iPhone for that.
I think the study is trying to link two quite unrelated aspects through a narrow lens of anonymized "international" friendship links. What constitutes international? Is any link outside of your own country considered international?

To me, this chart seems to highlight countries that have relatively open borders with its neighbors, or countries where immigrants as percentage of population is high because of economic opportunities and such. Consider Saudi Arabia or Oman, which gets a lot of immigrants from all over the Muslim world, which seems to be one of the most "international" countries. This inference seems counter to the fact that many of those countries are not as open to international businesses as say, Singapore or Hong Kong. Nor are they poor countries per se.
I also saw spinlock and immediately thought, why?
Yeah, but aren't you talking about pennies a share? How does this affect an trade that I'm going to hold for weeks or months?
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Any time someone dares to suggest that U.S. pharmaceutical pricing is out of control, pundits (often paid pundits) work themselves into a froth about new drug development.

I'm tired of subsidizing drug development for the rest of the world. Let's manufacture and sell drugs in the United States at a rate that maximizes social welfare. Industry profits and R&D costs can rest on someone else's back.

If no new pharmaceutical was ever funded by private research money ever again, but we could control pharmaceutical costs, that would be just fine with me.
Your argument is using some old data and substantially flawed reasoning and I'll let other people talk about it. But there is one thing I want to point out:

It is possible to be both marginalized in one aspect and privileged in another. It is definitely the case for Asian Americans in tech. Very few will say they're not (in aggregate, individual experiences vary of course!) better off than other people of color in this field, even as they also suffer racism. The numbers, as you suggest, do not lie. It's a similar phenomenon to the treatment of homosexual people in tech on the west coast. Just because someone is a gay man doesn't make them suddenly not white, for example.

This is a really important and often overlooked feature of intersectional feminism: nearly everyone has privilege even if they're also marginalized. That's why it's such a worthy cause, nearly everyone has something substantial to gain.
Getting sponsored to come and work here in the U.S is very expensive. You have to have exceptional abilities for companies to want to jump through hoops for you. But there is still hope. Head over to upwork.com, Elance.com,Fiverr.com etc. and see if you can help people there and make some money to survive. All the best-
Facebook using java.util.concurrent.Future<T> interface for downloading task: see here

https://github.com/facebook/fresco/blob/c5e1d4cf2c081bf871f5...

you can ether call future.cancel() or cancel(true):
in first case download task will be finished but further processing in pipeline will be stopped. Future.cancel(true) is more aggressive and abandons download but you will get InterruptedException. As you see from source code Facebook using less aggressive approach with future.cancel(false) call.
> > So information you're looking for is out there somewhere in digital form.

> Were that true, you'd think Google would be able to find it.

Or not - because of copyright laws. :-(
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cool stuff. didn't know there were these many HTTP libraries for android.
Yea, India with a 1.2 billion people, and one of the lowest GDP per capita in the world, is at the same "less international" level as the US. There is no correlation. They could've drawn other conclusions out of this, like something about the attitudes about the people living in that country.
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"The answer I give them is that our markets are not rigged but are run/controlled/dominated by the flash boys/HFTs/machines that do not have the ability to think rationally but just trade on their algos and as a result you get absolute mayhem on days like today."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jaysomaney/2015/08/24/is-our-sto...
If you have an EE degree why are you trying to enter such a saturated market like web dev? Why not try to leverage your EE skills instead?

And no, I don't think anyone in a western country will sign you up to work for food and lodging. That would just look bad on the employer's side.
`loop` is used everywhere in common lisp, including a lot of the code I write. It's definitely idiomatic.
> They don't care about random individuals who want to run a VM on their PCs

Even average individuals are random. But beyond this discussion, and adding another argument to the premise, don't you think that VMware is failing in the cloud not having their own AWS/Azure/Google App offering?
Sure, but how is this relevant to the point I'm making that for the kickstarter and crowdfunding community, it would be better if this was a criminal fraud prosecution as opposed civil commerce-related proceedings?
> It doesn't have memory safety as a core goal.

There is always a trade off in memory safety vs. performance.

> there's no strong sense of design and elegance.

I definitely see more elegance in Nims syntax as compared to Rust or even Go. But maybe this is because in real life python is by far the most productive language for me and Nim represents something like sane Cython alternative.
Cheers, I'll look through that in detail.

I remember Fraunhofer doing some interesting research using PUFs creating a foil device that covers special chips, where if the foil is tampered with, the memory of the chip is disrupted.

It's called PEP foil if I recall correctly.

Sergei's PhD thesis, is also an amazing read in case anyone hasn't seen it -

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/phd.html
thanks, I removed the VISITOR_INFO_LIVE and it's working. I think the problem was with my Firefox sync. I recently switched to firefox after 1 year of using chrome.I think the sync overwrote the cookies as well.
So I can download their entire map dataset and host my own copy?
I really wish this included a comparison with KDB. It's not cheap to get a license, and they certainly wouldn't give a testing license in order to publish benchmarks against it, but in finance it is the standard for TSDBs. There hasn't ever been anything open source that has come close.
That sounds like a practical application. Good to see a company using analog for what's mostly an analog architecture (neural). Certain parts are easily modelled with digital circuits. Certain parts could benefit from continuous, simple, parallel processing. An analog domain. I'm sure it's tricky to find the right split and integration scheme esp if you're targeting CNN's like I read about here. Good luck on that as I'm sure it will make similarly interesting reading and potentially a useful product if I need CNN's. :)

"Because, if software is good enough, then why take a risk on a fancy new hardware component?"

Good point. Something that's done in many. Gotta have a clear benefit esp in price/performance/energy. This market has almost as many shut-downs as start-ups.
As a New Yorker, I am very pleased with the decision.
The reason why the taxis are not being used is not because of Uber but rather because the taxi prices are set too high. The way to fix the problem is for the NY City Taxi Commission to lower the taxi fares. With lower fares, more people will take taxis, especially now that there is the new "Arro" app that allows for e-hail of taxis.

Lower the prices, and more taxis will be in use. Simple economics!
I like rarely used features. A language having extra features doesn't make it worse. I've used maybe 5% of the python standard library, but that fact doesn't make me feel like Python is worse.
In a world where only white caucasian men can go to school, of course a meritocracy ends up being filled with them. You seem to imply there is some logical disconnect here when it's perfectly explainable.
This just disgusts me deeply. Is there nowhere on earth that is safe from humanity's greed and disregard for the planet we depend on for our lives. In some ways I hope we never go intergalactic or even leave our solar system - perhaps the universe will quarantine us before we can infest the rest of it.
Blindly following hedge fund data is a sure fire way too lose money. A lot of these hedge funds are using more complicated strategies such as premium selling and hedging using S&P futures.
>Your argument is using some old data and substantially flawed reasoning and I'll let other people talk about it

If I'm not mistaken, all of those sources are from 2015.

You seem to be interpreting my statement of the facts regarding demographics in the tech industry as as a statement that I believe Asian Americans are privileged. I'm not saying that. I think tech is the closest industry to an honest meritocracy that exists, and if there are more Asian Americans in tech than white people, then it's probably because of differences in ambition and the extent to which education is valued.

But, I brought up those stats not to make that point, just to prove the point that the way the media, and popular perception views diversity in tech is wrong.
Sorry that was kind of cryptic and vague. I meant that the poem talks about two things that are more or less the same, and then championing the more-or-less equal path you chose to take as some great defining decision. To me American nihilism is the championing of non decisions. Taking pride in your political party, car brand, part of the country you live in, etc. Americans tend to see meaning in the meaningless, morality in being content, identity in pre-selected choices, and they do it with a smile.
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http://www.navlio.com/ZKIPL

We ourselves used to track the number of "smart money" investors in biotech stocks like BLUE (bluebird bio) in Excel spreadsheets. The motivation for Navlio was to make this easier and more functional. Using BLUE as an example, the number of "smart money" investors increased from 2 to 10 before its stock price increased over 6x. We used Navlio to find other stocks like BLUE that hedge funds were buying and invested in some of those as well. If you want to actively buy stocks, this is a way to complement your research.
> There is always a trade off in memory safety vs. performance.

Well... no. The central premise Rust is to not make that specific trade off. Rust gets memory safety without a hit in performance. (It does of course make a trade off: memory safety comes at the cost of more compile time checks and a more sophisticated type system.)
It's a portable assembler plus a structure for programs. LLVM IR is a portable assembler. I like your examples of their machismo, though. The machismo concept particularly: "Real programmers don't need all those safety mechanisms! Get out of here kid and take your training wheels with you!"

Funny part is they say this even when alternative languages or libraries implement safety tricks without a performance penalty. Then we see clearly that their resistence isn't technical. ;)
Modern C++ can be safe by making use of:

- type safe enums (enum class)

- STL collections instead of plain C like types

- references for out parameters

- RAII

- smart pointers

- values types over heap allocations everywhere

- warnings as errors

The problem is making sure there aren't some guys in the team doing C style coding.

Nowadays C++ is still my language to go when I need to step out of Java and .NET.

The problems faced by Turbo Pascal and other languages to keep up with the OS vendors SDKs teached me to only invest on first class languages for production code.

Effective Modern C++, Tour of C++, Elements of Programming and From Mathematics to Generic Programming are all good books, where safe modern C++ is used.
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There's no mystery there.

Contrary to the previous poster, I suspect people simply compare the languages because they appeared around the same time and are both backed by big players.

There's nothing really comparable between them (although the that's just my opinion) and I'm baffled as to why they are co pared so often.
If you read my post more closely, I wasn't talking about white men, but white people. It's pretty clear that the facts show that women are underrepresented in tech.
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I started writing HTML, CSS, and JS in 2000. As someone who hasn't really worked in it day-to-day since 2010, JavaScript appears to be getting really weird.
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I don't know if software systems are the most complex systems we built, but you can't compare it to the world economy, which is an emergent property that nobody has "built".
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Yeah, I can't imagine you are going to be able to find very many wealthy people taking HITs on MTurk for $1.
Congratulations to my friends Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez, as well as to all the other contributors to OCaml.

For those interested in learning OCaml from a MOOC, there is one starting soon (next month). You can already register here: https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/pari...

Note: the MOOC is delivered on a French MOOC platform but will be in english.
If you use emacs, you can use gdb-many-windows to do something similar.

http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/fancy-debugging-with-gd...
Wow, thank you for that quote. That boggles my mind. Not one bug? I've seen impressive programmers in my life but never like this.
I am warming up to netmap but I want to deploy on Linux without distributing a kernel module.

Snabb Switch still uses its own built-in device drivers but if that was not an option I reckon we would be more likely to adopt netmap than DPDK because it is so much simpler.
Any two languages can be compared. The notion that the act of comparing two languages can be traced to one particular root cause (such as the use of the word "systems" N years ago) is ludicrous to me. What matters is the analysis that is involved in that comparison.

For example, I'd find the answer to this question very interesting: "Compare and contrast concurrency in Rust and Go." I contend that the answer to this question is epic. It will take you back through the history of PL and lots of really interesting design decisions. At the forefront: should concurrency be a first class part of the language? Or should it be part of a library?

And that's just one interesting question. There are plenty more.
JavaScript has always been a bit weird...
Did you actually read the book?

The math people (Merton, Scholes) saw the craziness, pulled enough of their money out in time, and didn't lose it. The finance people (first and foremost Merriwether) were those who believed they are smarted than everyone and went bankrupt.
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> Envelope is a complete platform that makes building web apps on top of PostgreSQL easy.

Easy when it is a simple CRUD app? When does 'easy' stop and the real work begin?

>...production ready and available today...

What are some production apps that have been built with this tool?

>All you need to know is SQL, and some HTML and you can publish your database as a web application with Envelope!

Is that all? Again, is this just for a simple CRUD app? If not, then for a substantial application, what do you mean by "some HTML"?

What are the real world uses for this? I didn't really get a clear picture of that from your web site.

Edit: These questions sounded a bit snarky. Not my intention. If I had a better idea of what this was actually used for it would help.