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> 0xFF is a number I just made up, no source data at all, I promise. Also, it's base 16.

It's not base 16 encoded, which was his point. Encoding demands a source. This is just a base-16 number unless you encoded something to arrive at this. You could interpret "Romeo and Juliet" as a very large base65 number (65 unique chars in the random copy I grabbed) if you want, but it's not meaningful or accurate to call it a base65 encoding.

> Even if that were true, the source data was most definitely encoded from base 2 (which is what our computers work with).

This is the kind of pedantry that people hate because it adds nothing to the conversation. It's a way to inject "I'm right" moments into the conversation so you can feel smart, while no one else really cares. It makes for unpleasant conversations.

<pedantry>

You're also not right. Your brain doesn't work in base-2, and you likely didn't enter this number into your computer in base2. You typed in the string "0xFF", and that string was encoded in base 2. The base2 that represents the string "0xFF" is very different from the base2 number that represents the logical (base16) number 0xFF.

</pedantry>
I remember how, as a young programmer, how hopeful I was that this technique (OO, RAD, "Components") or that language (Scheme, ML -- those two were the "ancient secret knowledge" that we "rediscovered" and our bosses had "overlooked" -- C++, Ada) will change programming forever and make software development completely different, and how angry I was at the experienced developers who told me that the most approaches will fail, and the best few would only yield perhaps significant, but evolutionary rather than revolutionary advances. Now I'm the one saying this to others...

I think that two specific advances did end up yielding significant (though evolutionary) progress since that text was written: automatic garbage collection, and automated testing practices. Both were viewed with skepticism, the latter with some derision, but they have both helped us out of a real crisis of the software industry in the nineties, when too many projects just couldn't get off the ground (or, rather, continuously crashed).
I also found it difficult to engage with Asana and Trello (also Evernote, less so). You make a good point, its the limited nature, constraints, that stop me from using task managers for all my projects. While, they have worked for specific projects, including personal and team initiatives, my day to day to-dos don't always make it on the board. What I have found is Evernote and OneNote, are more flexible and I can dump more information in a less-structured manner. For me its all about stickiness factor...

In the last 6 months, I have gone full-ham on OneNote, and now use it for team collaboration and personal use. A big part of it is the "open" feel of a blank canvas. At the same time, I can create and save templates for tasks or projects that fall into specific work buckets. Also, for teams, OneNote is free to use and has great iOS and Android apps (webapp is fine too). My current gripe with OneNote is the lack of push-notifications of completed tasks.
It's not everything under /usr. For example, I can install things to /usr/local/bin without issue.
If you forfeit your right to tinker with something then you don't have a right to tinker with it anymore, but I agree on the tone of the piece.
Sorry, that BS. Nobody wants to conduct a research experiment every-time they purchase splenda to see if it might give them cancer in 10 years. It is impossible to live life that way. Social guarantees that your water supply does not contain poison, and that the car you purchase doesn't not fall apart and kill you at 45 mph when it worked fine at 20mph when you did the test drive, are and should be expected. Just because cheating is widespread does not make it your fault for not knowing it.
So not being able to pay something back is your standard of justice? Why punish the murderer at all?
Will try it out. We are growing....fast!
Interesting that round numbers mean lower selling prices but that the sales happen quicker.

Steve Tadelis is one of the co-authors and he's done some interesting research from his time at eBay. Last year he published a paper that paid search ads were not really effective and that made the rounds, even getting mentioned in The Economist. Google wrote back to refute the claim, saying eBay is a special website and search ads do work. Here's that study: http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research-news/study-finds-...
Another interesting thing to look at is how founders talk about their team - do people work for them or with them?

Great passage from this post on leadership and mentoring: http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/12/02/whose-life-are...

You looked after me when I got there and treated me like a friend, not an employee. You refused to say “he works for me” you always said, “he works with me.”
Pretty sure that when you have to wadge a battle against obvious technology to justify your business model, your industry is going to end up on the wrong side of history.
A Mobius strip is, and it seems in this story you whichever direction you take, you end up back at a single mans testimony for a plea.
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>OK, that makes it clear that I really don't know what you're asking for. The point is that there are all these problems such that the algorithms we have are exponential, which makes them infeasible. In that sense we don't know how to solve them. Why do you claim we do know how to solve them?

I claim we can solve them, because we know the basic algorithm that will solve any particular problem given enough time and space: brute-force search and verify.

>What do you mean when you say these are theoretical?

There is the theoretical, "This entire class of problems is hard.", NP problem and there is the, "Provide me with a 3-coloring of this specific graph", NP problem.

I claim that while it is widely believed that we cannot solve the entire class of NP problems, we may be able to solve particular, realized instances of problems from that class.

Yes, the algorithms are exponential, but if you choose your parameter space appropriately, you may be able to run an exponential algorithm in a reasonable amount of time and space.

So, there are parameters for algorithms that we can compute solutions for, but we are still limited to the amount of physical computational ability that we can control. This puts limits on which particular problems we can solve.

>If we can 3-color then we can perform better packing, better scheduling, better layouts for processors, we can break crypto-systems, in what sense are these not practical?

Only in the sense that I'm looking for a specific packing problem. For example, here are the dimensions and locations of UPS's fleet. Here are the dimensions, locations, and destinations of the packages. Give me the optimal routes. Practically, you'd probably want to model and solve failure modes as well to find the most "robust" route.

>better packing, better scheduling, better layouts for processors

What you are referring to here, I have been referring to as "theoretical".

Optimizing UPS may or may not have much tangible benefit, depending on how close their current solutions are to the optimal. My question is asking: solving which particular problem would provide the most benefit?

>Can you give me any example of anything you would call a practical problem?

That is my question. :)

But, a toy example would be roughly (though could could possibly be attacked another way):

Provide a subset of [-12,30,7,9,-84,24,1,8,3,-5,2] that sums to 0.

Edit: Thanks for the link. I'm not sure if I want an email from every reply that I get here...but I'll think about it.
One of the saddest death penalty cases I have heard is that of Cameron Todd Willingham. Texas executed him in 2004 for arson that killed three of his daughters. The "science" behind the arson conviction turned out to be not a science at all. I believe he was 100% innocent. More here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/08/03/fresh-d...
This was true until Microsoft started shipping their own "exploits" (read: updates that are more for their benefit than yours.)

After the Windows 10 debacle, I'm looking to get off of Windows as soon as I can afford to. Whoever decided to turn Windows Update into an advertising platform needs to be fired -- it's that simple.
There is an unsettling irony in you say that... because... no, he has not incurred political damage for having allowed the execution, he was running as a presidential candidate for goodness' sake. And he probably would have stuck along were it not for the Trump domination.
Survival Gene – coding competition based on algorithms
> This paper offers no insight, only excuses to accept that software will always be buggy.

Is that how you read it? I read it as a call to accept an open eyed view of the industry and its advances, and tirelessly work to make progress rather than believe in messianic fads and jump from one to the next. It is optimistic yet realistic, and warns against unconstructive zeal.
I much prefer this initialism.
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Could this be an issue for things like homebrew or ruby/rbenv? Reading about it, one might think 10.11 could have problems with someone trying to use anything but the system-shipped ruby version, or python, etc.

On the other hand, maybe this question is rather stupid as I really can't see Apple scaring away the developer community in such an unnecessary way.
This seems like a very hot topic in the community, but no one has really figured out how to measure things out side of click through to signup. The magic of evangelism is in creating real connections with people, helping solve problems, and encouraging creativity. I don't see a way that can be measured, and frankly, I don't even know if it should be.
"Richard Glossip case: Here's the story of his victim"

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/richard-glossip-case-h...
And here's Brad Cox's rejoinder...

http://virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/NoSilverBulletRevisted/

Planning the Software Industrial Revolution is also a classic...

http://virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/PSIR/
(From an NBC news summary): Glossip's conviction hinged largely on the testimony of the man who actually carried out the 1997 bludgeoning murder of his boss. That man, Justin Sneed, is serving a life sentence.

I see this over and over again in criminal justice. Someone who has actually committed murder sells out someone else in a plea bargain and ends up with a lighter sentence than the person who (allegedly) planned the murder but didn't carry it out. There was a woman executed in Georgia yesterday for arranging the killing of her husband; her lover, who carried out the deed, is eligible for automatic parole in 2022. WTF.
I'm no expert either, though I'm sure theoretically you can't do this. But in practice I think you're safe.

Is there a way to disable the dots so the browser stops murdering my CPU?
Firstly: I'm 100% in favor of people leaving the NSA Snowden-style.

I don't think any of the people involved in this campaign have anywhere near the resources required to actually help anyone leave the intelligence community. The lengths Snowden went to and the things he had to do to remain safe from the US government were insane, and anyone leaving now will have ten times as much to escape from, given how much the US government is presumably watching for any Snowden copiers. If anyone is actually considering exiting the intelligence community, I truly hope they don't look at a website set up by German hobbyists.

Even if someone was simply planning a normal exit, sending a premade resignation letter (!) based off three different checkboxes (really?) is simply ridiculous. If anyone working there is stupid enough to send a pre-formed resignation letter that would burn bridges with most all of their colleagues, by all means do so, but I really doubt a single person in the intelligence community will use this site seriously.

Finally - imagine if someone came up to you and said "working at your job is comparable to being an alcoholic or a crack addict, break free and come with me" - I'd literally laugh in their faces. This site is the opposite of productive.
I'm not completely anti-death penalty, but I think there's a very strong argument that we can't properly administer death penalty cases (so I'm effectively saying we shouldn't execute people while recognizing that there are crimes that warrant the death penalty).

In any case, since we're calling on the governor to stay this execution, I'd suggest we're concerned enough with properly separating the innocent from the guilty to call for a moratorium on drone strikes, smart bomb raids, etc. If we want to kill a specific terrorist (or other military target), we should send a sniper. How about a second campaign to convince @obama?
FYI, aMoniker: you've been shadowbanned for more than three years...
Employees at Airbnb, Square and Stripe Are Spending 50%+ of Income on SF Rent
Does freehold vs leasehold also affect the valuation of buildings? Towards the end the lease on the property the lease on leasehold properties are worth less, versus freehold properties? I'm asking because I dont know, but think I could have some impact on building values as they age.
Yes, the world would be a better place if young minds all stopped dreaming and accepted the wisdom of the elders. There's nothing left to explore. </sarcasm>
No, I'm arguing that there should be a clear boundary between "acceptable" and "unacceptable" and trying to find out why a list of locations where people have been killed is objectionable to anyone.

What about the list of V2 target sites from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10302576 ? Would that be banned?
I just did a wipe and clean install and it does not install GarageBand.
Not sure about UK being hostile to cyclists. Is it as good as the Netherlands or Denmark? Certainly not. However we do have an extensive cycle network that continues to grow:

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/ncn/map?lat=56.54737192673878&lng...
The Windows desktop client isn't real time sync at all, it's set to sync every X minutes (configurable) and there's a great big Sync button on the toolbar.
Sweeeeeetttt.
I used to have dozens of domain names, back when there were fewer tlds. I had the .net, .com, .org etc for several domains I owned. I never made enough money off of them to justify it. I eventually figured out I was copying the strategy of a couple of sites that were "successful" in their niche in terms of traffic, visibility, reputation, etc. Neither of them was a successful business. I then looked around at websites making enough money to actually support the individual running them. Some had just the .net or just the .uk or whatever. None of them spent scads of money on multiple domains.

I currently own I think two domain names, one only because I paid 10 years in advance about 9 or so years ago. The rest of my sites are BlogSpot sites.

If you think you actually have a shot being the next Twitter or Facebook and can afford the expense, sure, scoop up the most important ones. But if you hope to just eke out a living online and support a one man shop, just get one or two domain names and save your money and time and effort for developing your thing.

QuestionableContent.net is supposedly the most lucrative webcomic online. One interview some years back put the authors income at six figures. He does not have the .com name. No one has trouble finding it.
I guess it depends on the era. Most of the computer games of the early nineties relied on MIDI, although their Amiga ports did use MOD of course, being the de-facto Amiga music format.
Nomadic life is simply not possible for 7.3 billion people on this planet. It requires much lower population density.
I monitor my mileage by simply resetting my trip meter on a fillup and looking at how much went into the car and dividing. The largest source of error naturally is that not all pumps are gaurenteed to fill to the same hieght and some places may be on a hill etc.

Obviously this is only as good as the way I drive (or my wife) and is heavily dependent upon if I hit traffic, mostly drive in the city or go on a road trip.

It really is an interesting thing to keep track of.
Did I miss something? Why is PG so obsessed over this one guy Glossip? The state (and federal level) has killed all sorts of innocent people over the years, and the police (and judicial process) kill innocent, unarmed people all the time. It makes the efforts like those of PG now seem, well.... pathetically emotional and short-term. And, frankly, a little racist.

A rich white tech magnate suddenly cares about a single innocent white guy getting killed by the state, while saying nothing about innocent unarmed black men get killed by the state all the time, every year.

Save Glossip, sure, it's a good cause. But PG isn't going to invest this much of himself in the next Glossip, or the next Rumain Brisbon, or the next Tamir Rice, or the next Akai Gurley, or the next Kajieme Powell, or the next Ezell Ford, or the next Dante Parker, or the next Michael Brown, or the next John Crawford III, or the next Tyree Woodson, or the next Eric Garner, or the next Victor White III, or the next Yvette Smith, or the next McKenzie Cochran, or the next Jordan Baker, or the next Andy Lopez, or the next .....
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/courts/richard-glossip-case-h...

The victim and family's side
Due to some physics things that I don't understand, it actually ends up proportional to the cube of your velocity.

source: presentation by Dr. Rizzoni at Center for Automotive Research at OSU
It looks like an excuse to tell people you're saving the world when you're really going on vacation.
Google Weblight – Move Fast, Break Things?
I used buzzfeed as a quick popular example - but Yahoo news is just as bad. I recall a "scientific study" where there was a link between plastic and issues with fetuses. The yahoo news article proclaimed that there was a link, the actual science study said while there may have been related incidents but there was no positive link between the 2.

I saw many comments on facebook from pregnant mothers claiming that they threw away all plastic in their house. If they bothered to actually read the official study - they would know that was not necessary. I understand they wanted to be careful - but plastic and materials made of plastic have been around for many many years. Unless they were burning plastic or using plastic exclusively - judging from years of exposure I think there are more important household hazards than that.

Again - I'm more likely to believe a wikipedia article with cited sources than a bias site or news report. But yet when you are taught in class - that freewebs site that is made by some random guy is more of a reliable site than a site that can be updated and monitored by people around the world. That's my problem and point. For academia we shouldn't say "you can't use wikipedia but any other site is ok" - but rather "find N articles that support this fact or opinion - where wikipedia is ok to include as a supporting article".
I don't believe in OS upgrades; I always wipe and clean install (mainly due to superstition). Regardless, always have a good backup before starting.
Yes, of course.

However, the primary evidence we have that Glossip ordered the killing is the testimony of the guy who actually did the deed, and who avoided a death sentence in exchange for that testimony. It's a little fishy.
I suspect their resumes already look a bit like this:

10 years of experience in $redacted

5 years of writing operational manuals for OMS-SPEC-DCPINET

2 years performing $redacted for BLUE SPARROW

3 years as a project manager specializing in coordinating teams of $redacted for challenges like $redacted, $redacted, and ANST-PRMCON

Kind of limits your options unless you're selling services to someone that's already within that sphere of influence and has both expectations for this sort of thing, and has clearance to know what some of them are.
So are you saying Google Authenticator will be useless when my clock is >60 seconds out of sync? Or do they record my last interaction and note the time delta from there?
There's also an awesome command-line chromecast client which can play local and remote media. It works quite well in my experience. https://github.com/xat/castnow
There are at least 5 questions here which seem to be conflated:

1. Is there a good process in place?

2. Was the process followed?

3. Is he actually guilty?

4. Is execution an appropriate punishment in his case?

5. Is execution ever an appropriate punishment?
What I cannot fathom is that police officers are universally judged for decisions they have to take in split seconds, yet judges, attorneys (and ultimately the governor) do not have any repercussions at all if they cause the death of an innocent person in trials that last months or years.
I'm not disputing what you are saying at all. But having to hire American over foreigners knowing that company have to pay higher wages is still economic inefficiencies (the same as outsource, and actually I was specifically talking about outsourcing, not H1B visa).
I think the point was affordability. There aren't a lot of people who will spend 150K+ on a car, where merely owning home(with no mortgage) is a luxury these days.
Boy, are you a pessimist! That's not at all the message. The message is about working towards progress rather than jumping from one fad to the next with blind faith that something will "save" us. It's a call for technological progress rather than an alchemist's semi-religious search for a way to turn lead into gold.
flyhighplato may be referring to Grails 3, which is built atop Spring Boot: https://grails.github.io/grails-doc/latest/guide/introductio...
Those are very rare. When they appear, there's inevitably enough panic and publicity to attract my attention, at which point I can evaluate and install the update myself when/if appropriate.

Fool me once, there won't be a second time, and that means you get to pull something like "UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10 NOW!!!11!!" on me exactly once. Auto-updates are now turned off on my Windows 7 box, and they will remain that way.
The announcement is very enterprisey -- long, boring, not getting to the meat of the news. I couldn't get through it.

I hope this isn't a sign of where the Asana product and culture are headed.
A partial reason for this is that the speedometers have to be optimistic by law (depending on jurisdiction, but I think this is the case most everywhere.

When your speedometer shows 100 km/h, it is permitted that true speed is 90 km/h, but it is not permitted that the true speed is 101 km/h. And the same variance applies to odometer, of course.

Things like tyre wear and pressure have a noticeable impact on what both meters show, and manufactures have to stay on the safe side, by law.
> And I was specifically refuting your thesis that the source of data is irrelevant.

Please stop trying to tell me what my thesis is, as you've misunderstood my statements. The portion of the comment I was responding to is "In my anecdotal experience, drivers tend to get much lower than the manufacturer mileage because they optimize for things other than fuel economy (e.g., speed)." That, by itself, is irrelevant to the question as to why one manufacturer has vastly different numbers than another. As to testing methodologies, yes, this could entirely be testing error. I've never stated my opposition to that possibility. I have repeatedly stated my only intention was to say these numbers need more investigation.

I'm done trying to discuss this with someone who ignores what I actually state in favor of what they decide I must be implying.
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