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A&M is actually surprisingly low on the list.

But the one that seems to be missing is Vanderbilt; that was one school I thought the government actively recruited from, and had close ties do. I was once told specifically that was where NSF administrators went to die.
The hardcore downvotes on this comment, ostensibly given because it seems to run counter to today’s moral crisis of Women in Engineering, and it sounds so very regressive, despite the possibility it’s … not wrong, are a perfect illustration of http://paulgraham.com/say.html

I have a simple thought experiment for those who have a strong impulse to downvote the parent comment (and doubtless my own comment): Imagine the discussion here were, say, a study that illustrated men naturally resorted to forming factions and solving disagreements with violence, and someone commented, “No, it’s 100% society, not innate whatsoever” and then someone replied to that saying “no, while individual variation is of course very real, there is some evidence that the general trends that inform some of our stereotyped intuitions of gender are based in biological fact.” Would you be quite so quick to mash the down arrow? … Perhaps. It’s a discussion fraught with a lot of charged emotions, and we collectively are not so good at dealing with points of view contrary to whatever we want to believe.
I too spend time learning breadth of topics, including startups (though it is orthogonal to my work). However, I retain very little after a while. I stumbled in to Edgar Dale's "Cone of Learning" or "Pyramid of Learning" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Dale

Based on that, I plan to teach whatever I learn (God save the listener/viewer!) by compiling short videos and unleashing it on the common man, via youtube.

Also, note the criticism of above research/ideas at this blog: http://www.danielwillingham.com/daniel-willingham-science-an...

One more thing that kept me motivated during learning is to build tiny projects along the way (in case of technical learning). The take away from this is regular positive reward can be a good motivator.
Yeah, this is why I was confused.

I can understand wanting the screen to tint reddish when it's 9 or 10 pm, because I should be going to bed soon.

I don't necessarily want it changing colors at 4pm when it starts getting dark here in the winter. At 4:00, I still need to be up for another 6-10 hours.
> If some fragments show up and some not, doesn't it have to wait and see if the rest show up? Maybe it doesn't have to wait for a long time (like TCP), but it does have to wait.

Much of the stall logic is tied in to whether to wait longer, whether to deliver partial data, whether to request a retransmit, whether you've already transmitted the data (once you reassemble a UDP packet, you can fire it and then promptly forget you ever saw it.. if defragmentation causes you to reconstruct and send the packet again, that's 100% okay!) and most importantly, what to do with an open ended amount of data that may need to be held up while waiting for that one lost fragment.

The logic is simple:

1) Allocate space for UDP packet.
2) Fill in UDP fragment data as it arrives.
3) If all the data for a given packet is there, transmit it and delete all memory of the fragment.
4) If you timeout, delete all memory of the fragment.

That is so, so, so much easier.

If you looked at the code, you'd not think it much similar.
This reminds me of the lawsuit a few years ago where Scientologists tried to sue some folks for publishing their internal documents online, and the folks publishing them said that Scientology didn't own the copyrights since both the documents and the 'church' claimed they were written by Xenu.
Why is it not considered fraud to advertise the book as being written by Ms. Frank, only to claim another author decades later? They seem to both have their cake and eat it too.

I find it especially galling as the co-author died never claiming to be the author.

In 67 years time Tom Clancy's third cousin's son no doubt will suddenly appear as a co-author of his books just as they go out of copyright ...
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This is water.
> The idea that women's liberation and the abolishment of slavery are "arbitrarily" positive things, and that we may like them exactly as likely as we may not via some senseless quirk of history, seems pretty asinine and lazy.

Its not exactly arbitrary, its more dependent on the current state of the world. Take the trolley problem, if killing one person would save billions does murder become moral?

Similarly, (and more contentiously) we might look at pre industrial agrarian societies as barbaric for favouring male children but when your society/family is absolutely dependent on human labour and men are capable of providing far more for roughly the same amount of resources consumed you can see how that moral position could emerge.

Were they fundamentally evil for holding it?

* http://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pd... is short story which also talks about this.
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If I understand the situation correctly the physical diaries and notebooks are owned by a different organization (The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam) than the owner of the copyrights (Anne Frank Fonds in Basel). And the former are unhappy about this latest development, so that may well happen.
A credible threat of being bankrupted in a lawsuit has kept many of those cockroaches under a rock where they belonged, and for a long time. Otto Frank himself sued one guy.
I keep wondering: Browsers have been dealing with some of these issues for quite some time now, both for SSL purposes and password storage. They should agree on common interfaces to expose safe crypto functions to client code, so that users could be relatively sure that servers will never get, say, a plaintext password. Is it terribly hard?

It would likely be safer than hamfisted attempts at JS cryptography which can be compromised down the wire.
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Or, alternatively, Nvidia is doing this because their current CUDA compiler works with LLVM. And a possible reason that they built their CUDA infrastructure on LLVM is because the people making GCC privileged ideology over technical merit and made it much harder for tools (even open source or libre ones) to integrate with the compiler. Remember that this was a predictable outcome when you're inevitably burned by this.
This is excellent!!! I've been wanting to get into embedded hacking, specifically a GPS watch, the polar m400. Thanks for sharing.

BTWPart 2 is here for those curious: http://grangeia.io/2015/11/16/hacking-tomtom-runner-pt2/
IIRC it was the bug that allows you to pass through ghosts. I vaguely recall learning about it because of something the author wrote when this was released. Apparently speedrunners and the like have memorized patterns that exploit this if you can play with perfect timing.

Explanation of the bug at http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie..., in the section "Just Passing Through".
Great essay that should leave no doubt for credit where it's due. What I find strange is that pg would even have to explain all of this in an essay after all this time since none of this is new to me (or I would imagine many people in the start up scene) since it's been mentioned so many times in different interviews. Then again it was also strange that a Bay Area vc wasn't able to recognize Jessica in either Palo Alto or Mountain View and start making some weird remarks towards her.
There is some documentation on the various Nim backends here: http://nim-lang.org/docs/backends.html & http://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html#compiler-usage-generated-...

That second link describes the `nimcache` directory into which the generated C code is written. If you poke around in that directory (starting with the generated C version of your Nim code, which will have the same filename but a `.c` suffix instead of a `.nim` suffix) then you can see that the generated C code is really quite readable.
So if you're slightly embarrassed about something it shouldn't be public domain?
>>Except that every database has their own flavour of SQL

Sure, but simple queries, like the poster above provides as an example, have been standardized for like decades, and work the same across pretty much every credible RDBMS.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10577996
Very good! That seems to mean "none of the cases so far even faintly involved encrypted communications". So the calls for more intrusive surveillance, and backdoors into encryption have another motive altogether. Not surprising, but that other motive is still murky.
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You must never use youtube then? That seems to be a popular site
Google Glass was ridiculously priced in an attempt to segment the market to only people who wanted to buy it to build a hobby/business with. They knew it was not ready for mass consumption and tried to use price and availability to signal accordingly.
I've used Codility and other tests before. Doing amazing on a test isn't always going to mean they're going to be amazing at the job but if they do badly on the test then they're probably not worth continuing with. Tests like these act as a good automated time saving gateway to filter out obviously unsuitable candidate as conducting good interviews takes up a lot of time. You can learn a lot from their test answers as well; chatting to a candidate about their code in the interview can be a good way to understand their coding experience.

By the way, when reviewing tests answers, I always tried to be realistic and not penalise someone too much for e.g. missing a subtle optimisation trick or slightly misunderstanding the problem.
That was necessary. Unlike the C64 the graphics chip in the 99/4A had its own memory not mapped into main CPU RAM. You had to write a lpad or store command with an address to the memory bus register and then read or write data to access the video RAM. There was an autoincrement so you could read or write multiple bytes with one command, but it was still slow. Oh, and guess where BASIC programs were stored? Video RAM. Guess how the interpreter was written? In an interpreted bytecode that was stored in video-bus ROM (called GROM). An unextended 99/4A had something like 256 BYTES of CPU RAM (it was fast expensive SRAM).

So yes, you had to use POKE commands, but an unexpanded C64 still gave you access to ALL its capabilities from BASIC (even the ability to write and call machine language programs from within BASIC). An unexpanded TI-99 gave you only as much as the BASIC authors provided CALL statements for. We were even cut off from sprites without the purchase of Extended BASIC.
Because the copyright on anything that Anne Frank has written will expire this year.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10577339
One would think that the truth would be most interesting to the layperson, but it seems that contemporary journalism knows better.
At the moment Rust doesn't have a stable ABI (aside from things you mark as C-compatible), so dynamic libaries that stick around on your system to do things aren't used much. I bet there will be a solution for this once we stabilize the ABI, though I suspect it may already be solved (I think you can tell rust to dynamically link to the allocator too, or something).
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10577339
Incidentally, those stories were all told by the OP.
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Anne Frank's legacy has been the subject of many lawsuits over the years. To date it has all been either about money or control of content that none of the participants created. Otto Frank was using what tools he had to achieve his ends, and he did a pretty good job of it, I have never had the feeling that he did not do anything short of giving his life to put the legacy of his daughter out there for the world to see in the way he deemed the best possible.

But with Otto Frank now many years dead and the link with the living past fading I think the time has come to reveal the diary as it was made, rather than as it was interpreted to limit the fall-out for other living people whose sensibilities might have been offended by Anne's razor sharp pen.

I'm sure there will be people that will abuse that, but the good and the bad need to be weighed and in my opinion at least the good of a public domain version of the book far outstrips the possible bad that could come of this.
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Kindergarten ~= to our 'onderbouw'. Remember that you can't compare 1:1 because of a number of factors, like when the school year starts and how admittance fits into that as well as how the rest of the education system until high school is structured (and at what age it starts).
Some types of death do have a stronger emotional effect on us.

Perspective is everything. Good approach :)
On the contrary, all popular physics engines today (including the one in FO4) do not tie simulation framerate to rendering framerate. That would make the simulation incredibly unstable. Instead, the physics happen in their own thread at a fixed timestep. It's up to the game developer to have enough sense to write non-blocking multi threaded code, but if they do things by the book everything just works. This includes FO4, which contrary to your post does not have a 30 FPS cap (except on consoles).
That was right here in Amsterdam. Karin Spaink and xs4all vs Scientology. She's one of my heroes. The case you refer to is 'the Fishman affidavits'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Spaink

We were at VOLMAC in the same year, but I highly doubt she would remember that.

http://kspaink.home.xs4all.nl/fishman/home.html

Talk about abuse of copyright, that was one of the worst ever.
Forms for undertakers have a section where one has to certify whether or not the deceased person has an implanted device.

Cremating a person with a plutonium powered pacemaker might be a bit of a health hazard.
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> Physics are always tied to framerate.

Do you mean "to some framerate"? Obviously physics has to be ticked, but it doesn't have to be ticked at the same rate the game renders. Lots of games and game engines decouple these rates correctly.

Likewise, games where the logic runs faster at high visual framerates are hardly that common. Outside of Bethesda, and retro games played on an emulator, I can't recall the last time I saw one.
What did the employees get out of it?
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A couple of years ago Spotify rewrote their clients to use CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), so since then their clients are in some sense native and in some sense not, and much more consistent across platforms.

Anyway, I agree with you that they have been pushing the envelope in terms of mobile functionality, especially iOS. Lately I'm not happy with how Android has crippled their lock screen experience by screwing up the lock screen widget API - but that's not Spotify's fault.

To any Spotify skeptics, I highly recommend trying the premium service. The social feed, cross-device sync, BPM matching for runners, collaborative playlists, Spotify Connect (ability to switch and control music playing on another device), Algoriddm Djay integration, all changed the way I experience music. Their radio/suggestions engine is not as good as Pandora's, but is slowly improving. The only thing that is sort of a letdown is the visualizations API, but I can see why it's not a priority.
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All of the upsides for microservices the author enumerates are really luxuries that may or may not be afforded a harried team trying to beat their next deadline, which they're having trouble doing because they're slowed down due to the use of microservices. This isn't hypothetical; I've been on that team before.

I'm not saying microservices are bad, or good. There are tradeoffs, and in the situations I've been in, the negatives outweighed the positives, largely because the architecture was forced on us without providing the resources - mainly time - to do it right.
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While this move is questionable, it highlights a justice dilemma with the current copyright term practice of death of author + x years. Especially when arguing that that the descendants should benefit from the works of an author, now it is effectively so, that relatives of someone who got murdered (possibly even because of their works) are in terms of copyright worse off than someone who did not, just because of their date of death. There should be some clause that has either publication of work + x years or birth date + x + plus average life expectancy.

At least France has such a special clause of plus 30 years for people who fought and died for the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_pour_la_France#cite_note-...
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Any application might very reasonably choose to do this. Maybe version X never does, and you can satisfy yourself of this by peaking at the code, but there is no reason to believe that X+1 won't, or that another vendor's product/FOSS project you need to interoperate with won't, etc.
If you think what the DCI is saying in response to this is anything other than disingenuous and opportunistic, I'm at a total loss
Individual variation swamps gender variation. Unless you're hiring at a demographic level (like the military), basing decisions on gender of the individual is largely pointless.
I don't know about that. Or, in other words, it remains to be seen. So far there have been thousands of Europeans or at least European residents who have been willing to travel thousands of miles to do battle (with pretty high odds of becoming casualties) so it's not so much that they have not been "brainwashed enough" and, additionally there are thousands in the ME who would dearly desire to do harm in the EU and elsewhere but are and were thwarted. Or else they are pretenders who don't match their rhetoric.

If they want but can't field hundreds in the EU (or other non ME/NAf regions) does that not speak to current intel and ops being successful?

Your original assertion was "But if anything the attacks prove that the whole surveillance thing isn't effective, not that we need even more of it." To me, your responses seem to indicate the opposite [however that does not speak to the future]
I had Google Music for 6 months and, while their music selection is great, their UI is horrendous.

For example if I'm scrolling through an artists albums, they would list every release of an album (European release, NA release, Japan release, extended version, radio friendly, non-radio friendly). Maybe that's nice for some? It was just a hassle for me.

Overall navigation through the app I found to be really, really bad.
Why is there a difference between "terror coming to our shores" and the rampant gun violence we already have? Because it's framed that way by politicians and those espousing their agendas (sorry, i know this is a dog whistle for alex jones morons, but I can't think of a better word)

Treating IS as a virulent unstoppable philosophy is giving it far too much credit, and throwing our rights out the window in their name is and will be one of our nation's great shames. It's absolutely fair to treat people who would do either of those things with the contempt and judgment they deserve
For anyone else unaware, ROTC = Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

"Officer training program for training commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces."
You have a point, but I'd suggest to replace "fight" with "be ok with".
Started talking about Go, so I'm going to write my own article about micro-services in this comment.

It goes like this:

Micro-services, sometimes good.
Just make sure your phone is charged, since you'll look like a real douche if there's an emergency and you need to call police/ambulance with your dead phone that you've just been talking on...
Very well put.
The risk of riding a motocycle can be estimated from a large sample. The risk of a terror attack in Paris can not. Friday's attach is 2.5 micromorts, but how do you know there is not another larger scale attach in the works? That is what worries, scares most people, until these attack become normal and people get used to it, like those live in Jerusalem.
That great news. Why are you complaining? India and China need to both step up and innovate more. We'll get 2-3x the R&D at some point. Forget about call centers and assembling iPhones. Move up the food chain. Drugs research, electronics, planes, etc.
What you describe already exists. It's called client certificates.
Example:

https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/14264c2d6f7d20b...
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It's also quite fun digging around the output of other code generation toolkits. Cython code, for example, can look like quite idiomatic C if you add enough type annotations.

Theano's output, on the other hand...
I elaborated on my thoughts about the Cython language in this sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=10578834

I agree with you that Cython is a mature, very respectable project, and it evidently has more widespread adoption at this time.

I'm betting on Nim because I think it has a larger positive gradient, even though its y-coordinate is lower right now.
Update: a video of the first talk has been posted on Laci's website: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/2015-11-10talk.mp4
Here is the link to a thread on GCC's mailing list discussing the move by NNSA:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10578354

LLVM has a huge momentum now and it's negatively affecting GCC. GCC has been in trouble before but they got out of it by being the best free compiler available. I don't know how much longer they'll be able to sustain without making some changes.
Speaking of which, I think it's about time for another gentle nudge. 'elptacek, 'tptacek, 'patio11, how's Starfighter going? ;).
You could consider investing in some training for the employee. You could have another senior designer offer the critiques and feedback you feel are eating into your time.
C'mon on, you must know that the user's expectations of YouTube are different than most sites.