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It's not about Garry Tan, you moron. It's not trite either. Go read the message again.

There's no such thing as `genuine emotion` when dear bugs (including you) out here are all profiteering from the relationship at hand.

Also, it doesn't matter that you think this comment is trite. It is bootlicking for those who do not `know` or will `know` Garry in any capacity.

And for those who have been touched by his positive work/quiet influence: they have nothing to do with this thread, nor this community.

Thanks.
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You'd need to restrain from making a comment about adjusting the numbers when you can do it yourself instead of others doing it for you.

It is still a fair comparison.
"Sic Parvis Magna".

Greatness comes from small beginnings, even for unicorns...
> Wrong assumption. Never worked or met Garry. Now if you follow his posts and interactions, you will understand the messages above...

Lol. Where did I say it's about Garry Tan or his work? It's not about "him" at all.
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Here's HTML version: http://users.wfu.edu/palmitar/Courses/SecReg-Palmiter/Handou...
Their schemes have been working most of the time since creation of the Fed with usable currency and international uptake.

Using Bitcoin for its intended purpose is like gambling. Similarly for other, popular P2P. So, safe choice is better implementations of centralized model until stable alternatives exist in P2P space.

Note: Nice graphic but the best thing is looking at boards for interlock. Like Project Censored did in their nice Theory of Everything for global elites:

http://www.projectcensored.org/the-global-1-exposing-the-tra...

Now you know who they are. We've been able to figure ghe stuff out. Why still these problems? Cuz few give a shit or do anything. If that remains, we screwed in long-term. ;)
To me, this seems like a relatively difficult feat.

- Are governments and other regulatory agents going to formally verify compilers?

- Are these agencies going to prevent software from being written that doesn't conform to their rigid standards?

- Many compilers, technologies in use today aren't perfectly deterministic. Optimizations, flags, etc. can all dramatically affect an emitted binary.

- What if I want to use a completely different architecture than a regulatory agency is used to? Am I just not allowed to?

And as you mentioned, updates.

With the ability to do OTA or any other updates, software becomes almost impossible to identify or deal with.
I can't put a smilie here so I upvoted your comment.
The point someone else already made, it seems you are the only one presupposing anything here. Likely because you are abhorrently opposed to "wealth redistribution" or any type of socialistic policy. Based on your OP.
It's not enough to be ubiquitous and useful in today's market.

Think of the unicorns.
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Is there any prior case where an court demanded that a party comply with a copyright license? "stop using it or comply with the license" seems to be the obvious step for any infringer.
Would the flight be something like 14 hours though? You would have to pack 3 full meals. It looks like people don't think that's a problem.
Wealth disparity is a lot worse now than it was in 1986. So you have to take that into account also.
It isn't. They were acquired: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/04/its-official-square-acquire...
It's called the dismal science because a slavery proponent disliked the abolitionist conclusions of economists.
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While the general idea presented here is solid. It's a terrible idea to deploy your apps using the latest tag. It completely obliterates marathons ability to rollback should something go terribly wrong.

It would be better to use the CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM they expose as an ENV var to tag the image and deploy that via Marathon.
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What? Those are completely arbitrary descriptors. I think 15 feels specific because it's a multiple of 5. While I don't know the history of using multiples of 5 as speed limits, I do know I'm easily able to tell when I'm driving at a multiple of 5 due to my car's speedometer layout.
It seems like the relevant problems to solve are 1) how to provide enough support to all people so that the "floor" isn't so low as to be despairing and 2) how to help people to be mindful that sometimes, you will not be on top of the pile, and that's OK.

Inequality itself is a function of the uncounted dimensions of comparison amongst humans. Wealth is just a proxy target for this underlying fact. Make wealth equal by the most gentle mechanisms imaginable and the dynamics will just shift to some other dimension. It's like whack-a-mole with abstract concepts we barely understand baked into our monkey brains.
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Other people are too polite to phrase their questions bluntly, I suppose.

You and Mozilla both claim you were not fired and that you chose to step down. Had there not been political pressure from a certain group, would you still have stepped down?

When people hear about your story - it sounds more like being smoked out of your own house. A group wants you ousted due to a donation they disagree with and will be disruptive, give bad PR, or straight up quit developing for Mozilla until and unless you leave. At that point it is within Mozilla's and your best interests for you to step down.

So if you stepped down for entirely unrelated reasons than the rabble rabble going on by a certain group of people - why then? I don't think I've ever seen that answered.

And if you did step down because of the rabble rabble going on - that is what so many people have a problem with. Even if you necessarily don't.
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This is a problem in parts of St. Louis, MO. The brick is of high enough quality that people will steal them for resale from abandoned buildings. Naturally, this leads to the building collapsing which causes even more issues for surrounding area.
Office tour video nails it. Beer dispenser? 6-foot printer so staff can print their ideas in high resolution? Having 60 non-employees to live with them for free? And I'm pretty sure this is not even scratching the surface of non-sense that must have been going on there.

Even the TV host said it right in the video "This is crazy!"
Ceiling heights of 7 feet? Are you sure? Many tall people would only just fit upright...
Downvotes for a quote?

I predicted they would not do good - easy to verify comment history.
I predicted they would not do good - easy to verify comment history.
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Downvotes for a quote? Good job HN.
Its not really a problem with commons-collections and unfair to color it as their issue. Its like blaming the library that is part of a ROP chain for the exploit. The issue is what gets you in first, which is instantiating objects without any thought as to what they are from un-trusted sources.

Something that is called out in the Java secure coding guidelines:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/seccodeguide-139067.h...

and is something that goes way back in many languages. It seems to be a vuln pattern that keeps getting repeated sadly.
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Sure, but that only to the stream you actually send to the DAC, not the source material? (as in, you can take a 16 bit stream, scale it to 24 bits and then lower the volume) Am I missing something?
The signal you describe in your comment is very much NOT an A.
look at the fourier transform of a 1kHz signal modulated by a 440Hz signal, and you won't see any frequency component at 440Hz, nor any integer multiple 440Hz!

You can look at your "A440 at a constant volume" example as a 0Hz(DC) signal getting louder and softer 440 times a second, but this is the only case in which your example holds. Amplitude modulation creates sum and difference frequencies, so the A that you hear is 440Hz + 0Hz. if you change that 0Hz to 1kHz, you get a signal thats the sum of a sinewave at 560Hz and a sinewave at 1.44kHz, neither of which are an A.

The distinction is that the 1Hz signal is modulating the audible signal, not adding to it, if you look at the spectrum of the sum of those frequencies there is no 1Hz component, whereas if you added a 1Hz signal you'd get something completely different. And in this case the amplitude of the signal is always changing faster than 1Hz.

Edit: another way of looking at it: You wouldn't say you can "hear DC" because you can hear an A440 played at a perfectly constant volume.
Actually where did they spend those 31m??
Honest question: Is it normal for SV companies to be taking "beer breaks" during the work day?

I found that a bit strange.
I predicted this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7689406
Just to give you some perspective, requests is one of the most used packages in the python ecosystem and it has an amazing community. If you're having trouble finding funding for a project that is as good as requests, then there's most definitely something wrong.
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Two or three years ago I was doing an informational interview, trying to move from a QA job to a developer job, and I mentioned to the guy that I used assembly code almost every day. He guffawed and said I was full of it, but it was true -- firing up a debugger and stepping through assembly might be pathological on the desktop these days, but when you're investigating a failure on a back-end datacenter machine that's running some interim build that's impossible to find matching symbols or source for, probably over a KVM...
Every search I've done shows the number of stops as well as overall duration. If I do a price-only search on, say, Kayak, I get these idiotic 20+ hour trips that involve just 6 hours of flight time.
> So by that logic, it is unfair to criticise flash and or Java as Windows security issues?

Uh, yes. They are not Windows security issues.

> Heartbleed and Shellshock are Linux (OS) issues.

No they were not. Run OpenSSL on Windows and you were just as vulnerable to Heartbleed, same as if you ran bash as a CGI service on Windows, or OSX or BSD or VMS or ...

> shift the definition of "Linux" between only the kernel and the entire OS when it is convenient.

No they don't, Linux the OS makes sense in some circumstances, not in others, this is one of those times where it doesn't since we're talking specifically about Linus' work.
Square as well as Stripe have really changed PoS space. Before they arrived, the devices for PoS were truely ugly, unfriendly, hard to acquire and hard to use. I see tons of small businesses converting their PoS devices to Square/Stripe ALL the time. They are like iPhone for PoS. The potential is massive. They get huge amount of transaction data which alone is probably worth a billion dollars (customer habits, usage pattern, targeting, BI etc). They can easily expand in to integrated inventory, accounting and tax system which is well beyond billion dollar industry by itself. If you visit any super market or traditional retail space, one thing that would immediately catch your eyes is arcane PoS that literally runs on Win2000 based CE code. Even though it is super critical for running business, innovations in this space have been few and far between. if you have ever even tried to use any small business accounting/tax/inventory software you would know how pathetic and 1990-ish these software are. Given small businesses have limited resources, expertise and savvyness, this space is ripe for disruption. If there was easy to use, realtime, scalable, well integrated PoS system with smart customer focused analytics putting great business intelligence on fingertips of moms and pops, it would be worth its weight in gold for businesses owners. Square/Stripe could easily outpace SAP and Oracle in market cap/revenues if they play their game right and target this market with full force. The cut in credit card translations is small and probably irrelevant part of the story.
You may not have meant it this way, but it is always alarming when people dismiss the whole of the American justice system as "dated," as if that were a bug rather than a feature.

On the whole, the American system -- with its ancient safeguards inherited from the English common law -- does an excellent job at deterring and ferreting out serious crime while protecting the innocent. The American criminal law assumes our innocence; tells us the accusations against us; can only search our bodies, homes, and things with good reason, as decided by an impartial judge; compels our accusers to face us in open court; prevents juries from hearing unfairly inflammatory evidence; and generally allows most of us to live our private lives unmolested.

That's a good foundation.

On the other hand, the American criminal law also imprisons more human beings than any other law on the planet by an absurd margin, turns poor black areas into humiliated angry police states, turns marginal offenders into hardened criminals with sociopathic prisons, accepts prison rape as a mere cost of doing business, drives people insane with solitary confinement, and, as you point out, unfairly convicts people on unreliable evidence.

But we can deal with these problems piecemeal while preserving the good.
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The article you linked to does not say that the Griffiths claims caffeine dependence is "purely psychological" in the sense that you appear to be using it as an opposite of physical dependence. The article states that Griffiths thinks that caffeine dependence should be considered a psychological disorder, like other substance addictions.

If you look at the sources the Wikipedia articles cites for its mentions of Griffiths, the National Geographic article compares caffeine addiction to heroin addiction and attributes to Griffiths a claim that as little as half a cup of coffee a day can produce physical dependence. The paper appears to agree, from the information in the abstract.
The only professionaly used plastic instruments I have seen are recorders and flutes. Although no serious recorder/flute player would prefer their sound they can be quite good, especially because they are tuned higher than normal recorders which are tuned way to low. (This is why they sound so bad when playing with other instruments.)

I habe also seen tubists use acrylic mouthpieces.
Presumably we have to make access to historic CS papers more readily available and research past implementations of concepts before diving in, and what not. This seems sensible. Probably very few programmers actually check the literature before doing anything. Online maybe, but a good deal of the scientific papers in the field are paywalled etc.

I don't even know what fundamentals besides basic ideas of programming might look like.
Key words being 'bay area', which is in no way representative of the market Square needs.

Another challenge for Square is that their core merchants are mom & pop coffee shops or like you said, food trucks - not particularly lucrative segments.

Square's POS can never compete with full-service POS (Aloha, Micros), and even in the quick-service market there is increasing competition (Clover POS, Revel etc). That's why they've moved into payroll, HR, time-tracking, albeit the $5 per employee is ridiculously expensive for SMB's.
Are you 100% sure its 7'? There are a number of people [if small percentage wise] that are 7'.
> I recall listening to a vinyl rip of Lady Gaga's first album, and found that "Pokerface" was much more enjoyable with the additional dynamic range.

I was skeptical of this, so I sought out a copy on Youtube[0]. "Better" is subjective, and this is definitely lower quality overall (given the Youtube compression). But it is undeniably a very different song. I've listened to the CD version of this song countless times, and I don't think I ever remember hearing the male voice in the intro so prominently.

For someone hearing the song for the first time (or even the first few), it may not be as obvious, but as someone who's used to hearing that song on a regular basis, it definitely jumps out as having a crisper sound.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AgdAkjOjo
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I've always disliked Techcrunch but I'm starting to realize how valuable their "Cribs" series is. They have the very best documentation of a dying culture of spoiled founders aimlessly running startups like a daycare for adults. I wonder how much longer people are going to be pulling this off for. Investors need to wise up and start giving their money to people who are mature enough to be modest and efficient with their company's resources before they've proven themselves as a business.
I can't think of any language that has this as a feature. But there are some nice libraries for assembling machine code at runtime - there was one I used called "softwire" that seems to have disappeared. I just found this one on github: https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit
I don't know that I buy that. Cheaper isn't always better.
As I understand it: a government can not say to a foreign company "we won't buy your software / won't allow your product in our market unless you give us the source code" and that's it. It has nothing to do with GPL, possibly with the exception that writing "the provided software shall be released under GPL license" into government-sponsored bids would be illegal as it basically forces a company to provide the source code as a requirement to do business.
What would create that aversion effect? Thebaine? Anything's possible, I guess – but I haven't seen much evidence that there's any component of raw opium that can substantially slow or stop the respiratory depression and/or reinforcing effects.
That's unfortunate. RunAbove was very nice and gave us one last year for Haskell.org (so we could port to PPC64le), and our instance is still running well (176 cores/48GB of RAM or so), but I can confirm I can't spin up any new instances.

That's a shame, they're excellent machines... I guess we'll have to find another sponsor soon.
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Best article I've read in awhile. How many points will there stock fall Monday?
You can see the results of this all over NYC. A building down the street from where I live has had scaffolding around it for over 2 years as they replace the bricks (building owners have to test the bricks ever 5 years in NYC if their building is over 6 stories). This building was build in the 70s. I have no idea when they are going to be done.
Don't you see?

If you're not licking the boot then it's a disservice. Blasphemy my friend, blasphemy.
I don't buy any of it for even a second.

On my way to work, they're building this wonderful brick sidewalk. While still just a side walk and not a building, it's remarkably well crafted and detailed. I think we CAN do it, we just choose not to, economically.

I think somebody would rather save a lot of money and build something "good enough" these days than invest in craftsmanship. Also, I bet you don't have to look far to find a bunch of counter examples in modern times.
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UI development is so specialized now that I bet you could sell enough snake oil to lots of investors who would have a hard time verifying if your idea has profit potential or not.

I also think it's deplorable that Steve Newcomb went straight to investors for this without putting any of his own money into paying employees. It's one thing to sell snake oil, it's another not to even try to build a working snake oil prototype on your own time without taking someone else's money and burning it.
C# (Microsoft stack, probably other stack, probably other .NET languages) lets you generate or input C# code at runtime, compile it, and run it through the jitter as desired. It's nearly trivial to do it. The Regex classes for example create code at runtime to do compiled regular expressions, but I think they do it with emitted IL instead of C# code directly.

All the pieces are there.
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I just read your blog post on the topic. We need more voices like yours.
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This was a good article but I think the authors assignment of blame is misplaced.

In my opinion the reason contemporary brick construction is not up to par with 100 year old brick construction is the same reason contemporary washing machines are not up to the standard of washing machines 100 years ago: The emphasis in making things now is on speed and cheapness, the emphasis 100 years ago was on quality.

The college dorm building was certainly thrown up in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the price with a fraction of the labourers, than the bank building.
The only people who seem to be making money off twitter are journalists, who can now dash off a 1000-word "Thing trends on twitter" article in seven minutes without having to leave the office.
In Portland, Oregon, there are whole neighborhoods of 80-90% buildings from the 1880s through the 1930s. There still may be some survivorship bias on a whole-neighborhood level since those were mostly the middle-class areas with higher building quality. But if you compare those buildings to those built recently for the middle-class market, the craftsmanship is obviously different. And urban buildings for wealthy people have recently sidestepped craftsmanship entirely with minimal geometric styles of architecture. There's not a lot of room for ornamentation when the external walls are entirely glass.
There are some modern construction techniques that make me nervous:

One is pre-stressed concrete. This has replaced I-beams for highway bridges. The problem here is how do you inspect them? With steel I-beams you can use your eyes. With concrete maybe you need some kind of ultrasound equipment to check the tension cables? Do you trust those responsible for long-term maintenance to do it?

Another is engineered wood I-beams for houses. Basically these are floor joists made out of plywood. How long will they last? What happens if they get wet? If there is a fire the house is gone because the floor joists will be ruined by the water to put the fire out.

There were certainly mistakes in the past as well. One is building with cast-iron beams. They look nice, but they crack.
A bunch of years back, there was a minor internet epidemic of people ordering poppy pod arrangements off of eBay and brewing them in to tea. It proved every bit as addictive as abusing morphine. There are a lot of plants out there that have a safety-favourable agonist/antagonist mix, but I'm not sure opium is one of them.
I'll take a swing at this...with the note that something can be 'mildly sexist'. Sexist, without being a four alarm fire.

The problem is it feeds pretty heavily into the notion of "Male as Default" and that when you're talking to a tech audience, you're talking exclusively to guys. The thing being discussed, compared to, etc. is supposed to be a common experience, something that you've actually thought about, or at least would go "Yeah, that is weird..."

For half the population, urinals are not so much something they interact with. By assuming it's a common experience, you're assuming the reader is male.
There's a saying that goes something like: "Any idiot can build a bridge. It takes an engineer to build a bridge that is just strong enough to stand given the weight it's meant to bear".

A lot of older structural "engineering" was figuring out how much material was required, then multiplying it by 80 just in case.
One thing I really liked about the write-up is the thoroughness that everything was explained. Nothing was assumed. The author explains what burp is why it was used. Broke down the basics in a high level and the touched on the simple things. Showed exploits in multiple frameworks. Really a well done article just from a write-up perspective let alone the impact of the issue.