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Leaders of large companies usually have to manage a wide array of disparate and sometimes diametrically opposed interests.

The guys at Dropbox are smart; isn't the "obvious" assumption that Rice could be useful in helping them to better manage some of these interests (e.g. potentially reducing govt. snooping by facilitating a more level playing field for comms. and negotiation)?.

Aren't most reasonable people utilitarians? :)
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Paribus (YC S15) is hiring developers in NYC
Just to echo the recommendation on exercise. Can you muster the strength to run/walk/rake leaves?

I won't pretend it's THE answer-- but it can help significantly > http://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/exercise-and-dep...
You could, but the Internet in mid-to-late 90's was nothing like it looks today. I still remember WAP browsers and this was not something useful for general population in a way smartphones and the Internet of today are. Western corporate businessmen did AFAIK had some use for it though.
Congrats to all. I love ansible.
There are many non-native apps in the top 100. Cordova is popular for business apps (Amazon and Walgreens both use it, for example). Unity (C#) is extremely popular for games because they built an awesome dev environment and it compiles to native, thanks to Mono's translation layer.

I agree that React Native is great, and you will be seeing a lot more apps using it, especially as their Android version comes out.
I'm dubious of this claim.

The average player's career is 3 years, the average coaches tenure is 3 years. Teams implement new offensive and defensive schemes even more frequently than that.

Couple those facts with a short season( 16 games) and injuries limiting most players to less than that and it means you really can't use historical stats with any certainty.

Essentially you start from scratch each season.

I mean there is a reason why the phrase "statistically significant" is often used.

if you can figure out how a "classically" trained statistician can create an acurate model with:

1) almost no data

2) inaccurate data

3) seasons in which the next one often bears no resemblance to the previous one

....then please feel free to contact me!
Since these cars exceed emission tresholds, they shouldn't be on streets. It's likely that owners will be forced to hand in their cars for a firmware upgrade after which they will be much slower and/or with worse mpg.
"What lay behind the illusion of the park was just the real park."

So no, not that Buddhist. The function of cognition is not to detach ourselves from an insignificant, not-really-there illusionary world, but in fact to create increasingly accurate, but still tractable, "illusions" that let our brains draw closer and closer to the real world.
Was that a question for me, or why not looking at $$ earned per person instead of the %?

Well, what is your opinion of the $ and % that non-founders get at startups (regardless of success)?
That's quite funny. I see from Wikipedia Feynman was on Wolfram's PhD thesis committee. He can't have been too impressed with Wolframs people skills.
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I haven't. Thanks for the reference, I'll definitely read it!
Payment information contained in those emails — including
shipping and other account information — put the happy
couple and their young son in Naples, Italy.

I am not at all surprised they found him in Naples. That city is a festering breeding ground for scammers, fraudsters, mafiosi, Camorra, and every kind and type of unscrupulous person. I have never hated a city I've visited so much as Naples.
You're getting fucked. Hard. But that's what the games industry is all about. Fucking developers over, and then replacing them with fresh faced new grads who think it'd be just spiffy to work in games.
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Digital is not a threat to libraries. Libraries have been some of the earliest adopters of digital materials.

DRM, copyright and the cultural myth perpetrated by big media producers that every tiny bit of content must be paid for are real the threats to libraries.
Where is the vibrator, the fifth home electrical appliance, on these graphs? :-)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/27/hysteria-an...
I can't remember the link to the article, but a few years back a researcher had published a paper on the security of SSNs.

It outlined how the first 3 numbers are kind of based on your location of application (like a 3 digit code for a county). next 2 are kind of related to your date of birth.
The only hard part was the last 4 digits which are random but easy to get as thats the first thing most companies ask for.
so I began looking through databases of hacked carding and cybercrime forums

Where does one acquire these databases? Genuinely curious...
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Absolutely none of that makes up for the abysmal pay, though. You can easily get a software development job making much, much more than that, with most, if not all of the same benefits.
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Is there a protocol for commenting code that can lead to modular code? I.e. every function and object can be preceded with a comment that details its function, parameters and outputs.
More here (trying to unbury it - sorry mods):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386335

This story is extremely relevant to the general discourse here, and I am interested in peoples opinions. No dog in the fight, but I know people on both sides.
The top iOS app with Realm in it is Target, and they're ranked 450 today. So his analysis of the top 100 just missed it.
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>Has anybody already found the WMDs in Iraq?

The media (at least in the UK) was saying there were no WMDs in the days leading up to the vote in parliament.
Surprised to read about the perceptions of and experiences with (mostly pre-university school) librarians here.

As a new academic librarian and recent graduate of UIUC's iSchool (top library school in the country[0] and an active hub of computer science), my experience is that the strict and shushing librarian is, mostly, as you all are recalling, a thing of the past. Libraries are more and more about collaboration, computing, and guidance. Kitchens more than grocery stores. Librarians are more and more facilitators, teachers, and collaborators. The open access movement has a very strong base in libraries.

[0] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Do you mean:
"It is quite shocking how many 0-day vulnerabilities Flash has"

Or do you mean

"It is quite shocking how many 0-day vulnerabilities other software companies don't fix"
No, this isn't a rehash of old information, this is new news: the CIA was just now exposed by the report to have drastically low-balled Congress as well as the public on how frequently they tortured their prisoners.

The report isn't even fully out yet, this is just a preview. Just to reiterate, this report is not released yet, so its content is not "old news" or "established", though we can ultra-conservatively estimate that the CIA has been torturing countless people and training torturers to do so in their name over the course of decades.

There is no such thing as having too much evidence when it comes to demolishing PR and spin.
Even low hanging fruits have connections. I think all the hush-hush on black markets creates as much danger as it creates safety in making such discussion taboo. The idea that only kingpins or the mafia have connections to hitmen is something that exists only in Hollywood media.

I guess thinking about it further, the 'good' news is that if the criminal was successful at what he did and had a couple grand to hire a hitman - he wouldn't have needed to crowdfund the heroin. So you're right in that it's more likely a small time, not-black-market-rich troll rather than someone more dangerous.
Sweet, thanks. I see in the "possible applications" section of that wikipedia article it is stated that:

"Plasmons are being considered as a means of transmitting information on computer chips, since plasmons can support much higher frequencies (into the 100 THz range, while conventional wires become very lossy in the tens of GHz). However, for plasmon-based electronics to be useful, a plasmon-based amplifier analogous to the transistor, called a plasmonstor, first needs to be created."

So yeah, to all those applied physicists in the audience, hurry up and unleash the plasmonstor! (does anyone really call it that?)
The article says that it was already known that that area of the medulla was responsible for sleep paralysis during REM.

Perhaps they just looked to see if activating it causes sleep paralysis, which is what would be expected. If that were true, then deactivating it could be a potential area to explore for treatment of certain REM disorders (such as sleep paralysis failing to occur, and the person acts out their dreams).

Instead, they found that activating it causes both sleep paralysis and REM itself, all together. This is actually discouraging from the standpoint of treatment of REM disorders. However, it is still very interesting to know that REM can be caused by that area.
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TIL that "senior numismatist" is a job title.

It's consistently amazing how incredibly specialized our modern economy is.
>That said, if you can give some substantial reasons why to use Ansible, it would be great to hear them.

I'm using Ansible, but with a handful of powerful plugins that I developed and haven't contributed back (sorry, but I don't have the time to do support for that ugly-ish code).

I use it because:

- Having an agentless setup is ideal (anyone that tells you that Chef/Puppet agents have never cost him/her time is either a new user or trying to sell you something)

- The YAML, then Jinja2 parse can be annoying, but it's ultimately not that painful once you're used to it

- N-number of SSH Bastion/Ansible-runners fed from a git branch scales better than Chef Server

- I'm a Python developer and I've found it reasonably easy to "monkey-patch" in behaviors that I prefer/need

- Ansible doesn't force a workflow on you, so you can just focus on "getting shit done"

- I plan on taking the YAML that my team generates and feeding it into a different system and the fact that it's in a popular format makes that easier than the alternatives

I had the same experience as you after attending an AnsibleFest and dialed-back on my time spent supporting users in IRC and contributing to the project after. I expected a collection of hackers and instead came away disheartened by the number of sales or marketing bros/chicks and how corporate-smarmy it all felt.
Unfortunately, I'm far sighted, anything closer than about 12-18" from my face tends to be blurry... I know I can/should wear glasses... but really, the phone is the only device I typically have a problem with generally speaking.
Ah, I love this stuff. Tim Roughgarten's work on selfish routing was my bible through an undergrad research project, it's succinct and packed with excellent proofs. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/selfish-routing-and-price-ana...
I wonder if WB and Sony are OK with piracy as long as I return the "stolen" thing afterwards.

But seriously, even if piracy is theft, it's a different kind of theft, so arguing "oiracy is theft, theft is bad, therefore piracy is bad" is still a bad argument. It would be the best, if everybody focused on the actual matter at hand instead of pointless arguments by associacion.
Random product idea: An app where people can place bets on outcomes in their own personal lives by assigning percentage certainty. And where the app will let them make bets on future public events the same way, events that are fed via a service and where the bets are stored centrally. The bets wouldn't be for money, they'd instead be for the credibility of who could be most "well-calibrated" via a "proper scoring rule" that would penalize you for inaccuracy or ignorance - so you have incentive to be knowledgeable about the event, and accurate about the odds. Soon you'd have a leaderboard of people who were best able to tell the future, and you could design future features from there.

But the MVP is pretty simple. Create an event, create a bet, create a leaderboard.
I've had to decide to face down evil before... I went forward and it landed people in prison. I know I did the 'right' thing, but I didn't sleep well until moving away and wiping my online identity. I salute your work and wish you the best.
Do you know what VPN protocol it is? I wonder if it would be easy to figure out in Wireshark if you had a recording of the beginning of a session.
I assume the OP is talking about this:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-i...

Of course, given that 97% of people in Russia believe the propoganda, it could just be plain old brainwashing rather than shilling.
Also, sacking of Taxila/takshashIla [1] and Nalanda [2] in Indian subcontinent by Huns and Islamic marauders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda#Decline_and_end

The other, brighter side of this coin is the many remarkable rediscovery stories, like that of the Archimedes palimpsest [3] in the 1990s and Indian statesman Chanakya's 3rd century BCE manuscript 'Arthashastra' [4] in the 1900s.

[3] http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra
That's not the problem.

[good] Keep it simple.

[why Plan9 mk?] Stable release model with binary packages and a ports system (Plan9 mk-based).

[why static link? Why musl-libc?] Statically linked, using musl-libc.

[never heard of them. Explain] Sane simple base utilities, see: sbase, ubase, hbase etc.

[hmm... I think I get it] Package management using mount overlays (aufs), but mostly FHS compatible.

[fine] UTF-8 locale.

[good, popular enough to not need explanation] libressl linked.

[what's that?] No Native Language Support (NLS).

[what instead?] No systemd and rabbit hole.

[fine] No binary blob drivers (except linux-firmware).

[perfect example of explaining with just the right amount of detail] Separate /emul namespace for legacy or binary-blob software (skype, wine, robot-unicorn-attack).
The military already does this by handing out amphetamines during major combat operations - look up various stories on 'go pills' from the early stages of the Afghan war. Having taken prescription amphetamines over an extended period for adult ADD this isn't necessarily a disaster, but its not that sustainable either, and I would not be surprised to find a correlation between high dispensation rates and subsequent suicide rates by unit.
In a lot of places, no movement is necessary. Many European homes don't have the space for both, and I think losing some drying efficiency is worth it for the space reduction.

See:
http://www.amazon.com/LG-WM3997HWA-White-Electric-Washer/dp/...
I've seen this type of behavior in Sweden though. Noone is really afraid of that type of lawsuits here.
Yes, Benjamin Franklin was the first to assign positive and negative, and got the sign wrong. It looks like it took around another century to figure out that detail.
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There's some "accent" typical to Reddit comments that I've also been noticing more of here.
I wonder which Instagram filter he used, looks really old...
I think you might, it certainly can't hurt. As others have mentioned, there are other things you should consider too, such as reducing page complexity, load time, and the like.
Perhaps Italy is different, but in countries like the UK and Canada the press is constantly bashing the government.
Firstly, Google tells me outright they do not source from outside recruiters, which the OP is speaking about. Perhaps it is different at executive levels or outside the US.

Secondly, Google is a world-class, forward-thinking company so they are probably not representative of the rest of the millions of companies out there. That is like saying..."of course 100% of companies provide free lunch, after all hundreds of departments at Google provide free lunch." It is just silly.

Finally, the OP is not upset about ending up with "a fantastic offer for an engineering job in a comfortable office." How many engineers even have offices these days? Which company do you even work for?

The OP is upset about rent-seeking behavior of outside recruiters. Often, HR departments outsource the entire search to recruiters. Here in the US, the typical cut is 20 to 75%. For those recruiters who have negotiated higher cuts like 75%, it is usually due to an executive-level relationship...but they don't keep the full 75%, they then sub-source the talent from secondary or even tertiary recruiters.

Lets take an example -- the worker makes 100/hr, the tertiary (recruiter who actually found the talent) gets 25/hr, the secondary (who vetted from multiple tertiaries) gets 25/hr, the primary (who plays golf with the CIO) gets 25/hr. OK, perhaps the worker is well off at 100/hr, but this is a huge loss to the company -- three extra parties have taken a cut just because the HR manager didnt want to vet their own people.
Sleep paralysis is not nearly as scary once you know what it is. I get it a lot. The first time it happened to me, I thought I was literally dying (I could hear a rhythmic thumping noise, gradually slowing, became convinced it was my heartbeat and that once it stopped I was dead).

Now when it occurs, I think, Oh. Sleep paralysis again. That's annoying. And then I either wait it out until I can wake up fully or try to fall back asleep and convert it into a lucid dreaming experience.

I've never felt an unbearable fear or the presence of some other being though. Just strange noises (usually a dull roar that is so loud it becomes a physical pressure on my body), tingling in my limbs, vertigo, and sometimes the feeling that the bed is tilted and I am continuously sliding down the incline along the sheets except that the sliding is infinite and I never move (a type of vertigo, I suppose, though this comes with the sensation of the fabric moving across my skin as I slide).
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Bootstrapping a new server. I want a one-click solution. I think Ansible might help me get there.
The 'fair use' tests do take the effect on the creator into consideration. It's just not the only consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Regardless of whether you're a YC founder or not, in general unless you're Canadian/Mexican and can qualify for a TN, or Australian and can qualify for an E-3, your only viable real option is an O-1 (Alien of Extraordinary ability). It's not an unachievable visa, and there are many founders who use it, but the requirements to demonstrate extraordinary ability are onerous.

From USCIS:

* Receipt of nationally or internationally recognized prizes or awards for excellence in the field of endeavor

* Membership in associations in the field for which classification is sought which require outstanding achievements, as judged by recognized national or international experts in the field

* Published material in professional or major trade publications, newspapers or other major media about the beneficiary and the beneficiary’s work in the field for which classification is sought

* Original scientific, scholarly, or business-related contributions of major significance in the field

* Authorship of scholarly articles in professional journals or other major media in the field for which classification is sought

* A high salary or other remuneration for services as evidenced by contracts or other reliable evidence

* Participation on a panel, or individually, as a judge of the work of others in the same or in a field of specialization allied to that field for which classification is sought

* Employment in a critical or essential capacity for organizations and establishments that have a distinguished reputation

Additional info on the O-1A can be found here: http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-workers...

I'm specifically ignoring H-1B as an option because it's only a viable option between April 1st and 5th of a given year, and the odds are very much stacked against you at this point (from a pure statistics perspective).

There are a few other visas that may be an option, such as the investor visa (E-2), and intra-company transfer visa (L-1), but these are highly situation specific visas.

Also, this is not legal advice, I'm not an immigration lawyer, and you really should talk to an immigration lawyer :)
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EX: http://www.drbunsen.org/coffee-experiments/ Based on this analysis, subjects did not show a statistically significant preference in coffee brewed from a blade grinder or burr grinder.

First off only ~1/3 of coffee drinkers take it black which masks a lot of taste variation.

Second, taste sensitivity varies widely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertaster

Put together well under half of coffee drinkers notice subtle differences in grinding methods. Assuming the devices are setup to similar grinding levels and use similar source beans.

Note: You can find examples on both sides of this issue. But, the blind taste tests that repeat over time fail to provide the expected consistency.

PS: There are a few people that both notice and care about these issues, but they really are the minority of coffee drinkers.
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If you use "Chromium" on linux instead of "Chrome" you can do this; (create a shortcut with this command)

chromium --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x0033,0x0039,0x009E,0xcc15

Also if you use Nginx web browser; (read this article)

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx....
Yes, you hit the nail on the head exactly.

It's the same kind of intentionally obtuse ultra-narrow definitions that we saw the NSA using when their programs were under pressure. Normal words with colloquial dictionary supported and commonly understood meanings are hijacked and re-defined in secret, such that probes directed at the organization can be defused by confusion over terms or led astray by pursuing the wrong term. This deception also leaves room for clandestine organizations to deceive their own political apparatus if the people above them grow to be too nosy or inconvenient.

The best example of this strategem is in Clapper's usage of the word "collected". Complete propaganda, of course. The CIA has been caught redhanded doing the exact same stuff in the past, not to mention the original article's most recent example.
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To be honest I'm not really surprised by this. Given the Milgram experiment results (where 100% of people gave a lethal 300V shock, and 65% gave a 450V shock), it's not really surprising that 97% of people believe whatever ridiculous nonsense they are told by the authorities.
Credit card data is stolen all the time. Card skimmers, cell phones, cameras, just writing it down while working somewhere, pulled out of compromised email accounts, etc etc the list goes on. Criminals then upload them and sell that data online.