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I'm studying FreeBSD, C, C++, SDL2 and CMake. I'd love to highlight some of the open source projects I pitched in with as well as some of my own:

- aseprite (http://www.aseprite.org/) is a cross-platform animated sprite editor by David Capello. I got FreeBSD support working [1] and added a shortcut to center the canvas [2]. This was my first C++ commit.

If you like retro game art, definitely stop by and check it out. It's GPLv3 and you can build it for free, check out their [github](https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/).

- uMario (https://github.com/jakowskidev/uMario_Jakowski) is an NES Mario clone in C++ and SDL2. Check out the youtube video [3]. I got it building on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X [4]

- Then a couple of tiny C projects with CMake that are sort of boilerplate ATM, but they're my first C programs. The cool thing is they use permissive licensed libraries and build across platforms since they use CMake. https://github.com/tony/sdl2-playproject / https://github.com/tony/reST-lex-byacc / https://github.com/tony/ncurses-example.

On that front, I'm reading a book called "Compiler Design Using FLEX and YACC" by Vinu V. Das, which has been going good. As well as Lazy Foo's SDL tutorial (http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/).

- Another thing to mention is automatically rebuilding / reloading scripts when a file is saved. I started using entr(1) for that, http://entrproject.org/. Previously on projects like tmuxp and vcspull I've used sniffer (and looked into watchman) but have found this works best cross-platform. FreeBSD has file watching a bit trickier since we don't have inotify or fsevents.

- On the dot-config front (https://github.com/tony/.dot-config / https://github.com/tony/vim-config) got virtualenv + python 3 + vim working together [5], as well as neovim fully compatible with my standard vim-config. I'm now using neovim full time and all my plugins without any problems. They loads asynchronously with NeoBundleLazy and the autocompletion is async thanks to Shougu's deoplete.nvim [6].

[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/pull/893

[2] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/pull/892

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jya5He7KFsE

[4] https://github.com/jakowskidev/uMario_Jakowski/pull/1

[5] https://github.com/klen/python-mode/pull/609 (https://github.com/klen/python-mode/compare/develop...tony:p...)

[6] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
DNS conformance test program
Isn't the Python interpreter implemented in C? How could Python run someplace that C can't?
One thing that is more democratic than using money to "vote" is using actual voting to vote, whether on policy directly or on politicians who will determine policy.
> To be clear, when you say f' you're not talking about Newton's notation for the derivative of f, you're talking about a function from floats to floats that is the approximation/algorithmic implementation of f (which is R->R), right?

Yep. I probably should have used f* instead of f' because of context. R->R isn't necessary however, it should generalize quite a bit.

As to why the distinction is important, it's because of sensitivity. Approximating a function rarely also approximates its derivative well unless it is constructed to do so (e.g. k-th order Hermite polynomials). As an example, consider the simplest approximation scheme, basic polynomial fitting. They will guarantee that your fit matches the true function at all sample points, but the derivative might (and usually will) be wildly different. You have to be extremely careful differentiating approximate schemes and relating them to the true derivative. Usually what you're interested in for AD is the derivative of the approximate scheme and not an approximate derivative for the exact function (e.g., sensitivity analysis).

And I agree that dual numbers are intuitive to me as well, but I think it requires a decent bit of background as to why they work.
Saudi Arabia Exbreaks off ties with Iran after al-Nimr execution
Thanks! This looks like the best option. I'll just have to confirm that the ones available in my parents' part of the world also have a similar design.
Interesting! Have you seen https://pigeon.ly/?
A mashup of Mint.com's data and Simple.com's "Goals" interface[1], in a locally run web-app. I've used Simple's Goals interface as my primary budgeting tool for the past two years with a great deal of success, and want it for ALL my banking. Thus far, this has been the best way forward. It automatically imports my banking data from Mint, then allows me to apply "goals" to the transactions, along with some advanced filtering and matching to automate goal-matching, and "pulling" some of my available funds into goals on a daily basis. I'm sure I'll be tinkering with this throughout the year.

The interface is based on react.js, and it's allowed me to play around with jspm (not ideal - not awful), Baobab (fits me better than flux), react-dnd (confusing, but smart), Javascript es6/es7 (dig it), and localForage (which I already know and love).

Also started working on an Android app that talks to my Anova 1.0 (bluetooth-only) because I wasn't happy with the official Anova app. Was great to learn about controlling a device over bluetooth from Android, which was simultaneously a pain in the ass and easier than I expected.

1: Cheesy Example, but shows the basic premise of the goals interface: https://vimeo.com/58997158
True, but sometimes it takes time to see through the hype. I remember how only 3 years ago people were quoting the (former) Evernote CEO (Phil Libin) for how startups should be run- not so much anymore.
Only true if those purchases would've only been made on amazon prime. The author said he replaced target with amazon prime, so it would make sense his spending on AP shoots up. In reality it's hard to say for sure.
Strange, I didn't hit a membership wall.

The app they are pointing to is called Paralign, if you were interested, I'm not sure I get it.
[estate tax]

Bing it.
SwipeyTunes - Swipe left or right and clean up your iTunes music library.

https://medium.com/@Duj/swipeytunes-or-how-i-fell-in-love-wi...
It's funny math if he thinks Amazon is buying him for $100, when he's the one supplying the $100.

And before anyone comes back about how he's getting a savings compared to what he would be paying, he's confused somewhere, because the number he cited was $300, not $100, and that's only because he doesn't opt for the sometimes slower (but usually way faster than promised) free shipping, which is available to all, Prime or not.

I buy a huge amount of stuff on Amazon. No prime needed, no extra Prime fees spent.

What if I need something fast? I'll pay $20 for one-time 1-day shipping, not $100 for a year of 2-day shipping that I don't need. $20 versus $100, in all my years of using Amazon, have never spent the $20 once, so I've saved a few hundred dollars so far.

Lesson here maybe is that pretty charts can obscure the underlying reality, when basic assumptions about who is paying who get flipped.
The author mentions the worst companies that even I, web 2.0 bull, would never invest in http://greyenlightenment.com/billion-dollar-startup-club-pic...

He mentions box.net but ignores dropbox. No mention of Air BNB, Uber, Snapchat, Slack. Although these aren't public, there is an investor bias against hardware, but such a bias is warranted given the storied history of once high-flying hardware companies eventually soaking investors due to profit margin compression, competition, or becoming fads or obsoleted, examples being Sony, Atari, Garmin, Nintendo, Sega, Fitbit, Nokia, Motorola, Gopro, Jawbone, Skull Candy, Research in Motion, and many more.

Yeah, there is valuation pressure, but for companies that aren't very good. This is evidence investors are becoming smarter and more selective, whereas in the 90's a company like Fitbit would have had a PE ratio of 500 instead of 50, which is what it is right now.
Ah, I see. Probably more hefty than the use-case I'm envisioning (just keeping a few NAS devices online until they can power down).
I think snark is appropriate. If you asked the children what they want, you would get accurate answers. If you asked the teachers what the children need, you would get accurate answers.

Instead, we ask (and get answers even if we don't ask) the adults what the children want and the bureaucrats what the children need. The bureaucratic, overmanaged, underfunded education industry is not structured for education. It's structured to be controlled at successively broader levels of government and industrialized at national and international scale; optimized for inculcating into children the civil religion [1] and a receptiveness to strict organization of their time by authority figures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
It is ad hominem because you implicate anyone who worries about one device to stop worrying because you can choose from a bouquet, some other flower they should be more worried about.

Gun safety says it's unwise to point a gun, even an unloaded or uncocked gun, at someone you don't wish to shoot. In the same vein, it's unsettling to have microphones and cameras around one's house _even_ if you suppose they are off. Because the latent ability is potential oppression.
Not sure about mongoose, but I'm sure someone could write an ODM library around node-bedquilt.
It didn't pay for itself compared to the free shipping. Only compared to the premium shipping, which is totally unnecessary.
I feel a little guilty every time I buy on Amazon.

I feel good about supporting local businesses in the small town I live in: single Mom who cuts my hair, the couple who run the neighborhood gym, local farmers markets, etc. It is incredibly important to support one's own community and even though people do have jobs supporting Amazon purchases, it does not feel the same to me.
I agree with the content, of the article, but not sure I understand how the app mentioned helps.

However, in the trend of "to a hammer, everything looks like a nail", it does make me think that I'm on to something with the site I built just before new years http://bucket52.com - It will hopefully entice you to do something special and unique every week and track it.

I really have no idea what Paralign does.
There are arguably much more "regressive" things out there, that are completely avoidable.

Inheritance tax, on the other hand, usually has a "lower-bound" that prevents the very poor from being affected.

Taxes on investment? You mean, capital gains? Or something like dividends?
I don't know why your comment is being down-voted. George Soros based his entire career on this dynamic and even coined the term 'reflexivity' to describe it.

Here's where and why I think the disconnect happens. Most of our possessions in day to day life tend to have a relatively stable value. Your iPhone 6 is worth $600 dollars, oranges are $2/lbs, a t-shirt is $20. Markets for non-capital goods (i.e. goods that are consumed with 1 yr or so) are very efficient most of the time. However, the claim that 'markets are efficient' (and the kinda-corollary that there's some stable intrinsic price) gets applied to all markets all the time. But markets for capital goods are not efficient all the time (by capital goods I mean something where the lifetime is greater than 1 year ... e.g. houses, airplanes, financial investments like stocks & bonds). Because most things in our everyday life have some 'true' value its seems wrong that there are assets that don't have an 'intrinsic' value or whose value is determined by perception.

However value is determined by perception. A great example of this is GE. A little history ... up until the early 90's GE used to fund itself almost entirely with short term debt. GE was able to do this because everyone considered GE a AAA credit risk. This 'AAA' expectation from the market actually meant huge additional profits for GE because GE could continually borrow short term debt at short term rates (say 1%) and turn around and lend their customers money at longer term rates (say 5%) picking up spread. In the early 1990's Bill Gross came out and basically said 'this is crazy ... there's no way a company that is financed almost entirely with short term debt is a AAA credit'. Subsequently, GE was forced to term out their debt and this coincided with GE no longer outperforming the market (I haven't followed that closely but I think that GE has slowly been winding down GE Finance). The point here is that expectations (specifically that GE was a AAA credit) had a huge impact on the 'intrinsic' value of the company.
"Steve Wozniak, the cofounder of Apple, has signed away several of his patents on infrared control technologies to General Magic"

"We find that a phone link is actually faster than IR! The poor IR performance is particularly wounding to Woz, who signed away his IR patents and technology to General Magic."

a lot of bug discussion and ignoring Woz

"Wozniak is visibly upset that the product has not been fixed and that the stock market is so gullible. Perhaps be is also miffed that be was not even offered stock for his gift of the IR patents some three years ago."

If they treated Woz they way this article says, then I cannot help but think they were probably going to fail. Its a true shame because I still think agents would be a very interesting way to organize programs even though the remote communication part has been taken over by http-based APIs.
What happened in the Nordics is that for the most part of the 1900's, there was a shared border with a huge imperialist and expansionist superpower, trying to convince the world that their economic and social models were superior. It often did it with some very dirty and violent tricks and supported its sympathizers around the world. Especially in neighboring countries.

In order to keep the people from revolting and gaining permanent global competitive advantage by murdering the factory owners, lenders and their families and stealing their property disregarding any repayment plans - the moderate socialists (who saw that the socialist system would be built organically without violence) and the right wing owner & trader classes made an alliance to fringe the hard-core communists.

Bargains were made and benefits established as all parties knew that every satisfied social democrat was much better than a soviet-devout communist. In Finland, there was a very bloody civil war right in the beginning of independence (where the communists lost), two big gunfights in the WW2 and decades of soviet pressure to turn communist.

The social programs and safety nets were established to ensure the survival of capitalism and private property. The problem being solved with reducing economic inequality was not "poverty" like PG claims, but threat of violent revolutions by people who felt unfairness.

The Soviet Union is gone now and thus the left wing these days has much less bargaining power. These are interesting times.
FWIW: I'd describe it as "traditionally managed" rather than "big." There exist many Japanese companies with, say, 50 employees. Some of them are managed like young American software companies. Many are not.

This is not merely anecdata: the most obvious external evidence of traditional Japanese management is work hours by professional staff and that metric is inversely correlated with size of business when you average it across all firms in the country. Firms with 100 workers work longer days than salarymen at megacorps (again: on average). This is one reason they're seen as rather less desirable to work for.
Did you totally not notice that they have a free shipping option where you don't need Prime? You don't need the "fast" service and if you do you can pay for it on a one-time basis, and save money for the rest of the year.
> How many Zuckerbergs, Gates, Brins, Pages and Bezos are we missing out on due to the fact that huge swaths of our country do not have the ability to fully explore and develop their talents?

But this has nothing to do with inequality. It has to do with "too many people below economic level X". If this seems related to inequality it's because you've already bought into the pie fallacy.
Is it really a sign of proper valuation and longterm stability to simply survive an IPO?

Not every overvalued public offering was such initially. This isn't the case now, nor was it the case during the first bubble.
>smart enough to not let one of those networks gobble up > 1 address //

If you spoof your MAC then how would they know to only give one address?

From the OP:

>"Depending on the server's method of releasing IP addresses associated with a given MAC address this attack will either be more, or less effective. For example, if a server quickly releases allocations that it doesn't receive responses from, the attack will be less effective."

Why not respond to the responses on all those MACs then, surely in promiscuous mode you could send responses (and even fake a little traffic) for each MAC used. My home router is preconfigured to allow only 253 connections (lease time 1 day) - seems you could easily mess with SOHO routers with this?
Flat tables have been in engineering for decades before computers. It's just the only way to present clearly data.
First, it would be trivial to reroute inheritance funds through trusts or protected business assets, so very few wealthy families would fall victim to this sort of tax in reality. Governments have been trying to steal from the rich for a very long time, and the rich are fairly skilled at protective countermeasures.

Beyond that, your policy comes off as just the most base form of theft. Generational wealth is important, it's core to our survival instincts to look after our offspring when we die -- beyond just their basic needs, we want them to thrive. We want our grandchildren to thrive as well.

Also, generally speaking, I trust the children and grandchildren to spend money in more interesting / authentic ways than our government, who has, for example, the yearly defense budget we carry. And the yearly prison budget we maintain.

What if a child whose rich parents died would have started the largest cancer research center in the US with his billion dollars, but instead that money is seized by your "tax plan" and simply goes toward the defense industry coffers? Is that a net gain? Taking from the rich and giving to Halliburton and Blackwater?
When you say the government "squanders" money on projects like the F-35, it sounds like you think that the money spent just disappears and is gone, and all we're left with are some fighter jets of questionable value. But the money that the government spends goes back into the pockets of private citizens. Who then spend the money again, and spread it around. Silicon Valley, the symbol of entrepreneurship and self-made billionaires, owes it existence in part to huge, government sponsored, military and aerospace programs, ultimately funded by tax payers. A lot of private companies got very rich on the back of that. And now it's somehow unreasonable that the government wants to take some of that wealth and distribute it somewhere else?
Teenagers have little face to face time , and a lot of social media time , due to the addictiveness of smartphones, and various social media apps and probably various games -mostly created in silicon valley.

Face to face time is where you learn emotional intelligence and empathy. A simple example: usually in real life , when you hurt someone , you see him getting hurt and you might feel ashamed. Social media lacks that.
But those are only problems foreigners have with German taxis. Germans prefer paying with cash and don't care if the driver speaks good English. As a German the only bad experience I have ever had with a taxi was a driver taking the long way around. Apart from that our taxi services are great for Germans.

Of course the experience for foreigners is important, but it will neither make not brake any taxi company.
Maybe they were A/B testing and you fell into a test group, because I've been using Amazon since very near the beginning and they have always had a free shipping option with no Prime needed. Or I'm going crazy, also a possibility ;-).
New string formatting in Python
OP explained in a comment here that he was taking a bit of an artistic license calling this an echo.

Echo also is a pretty nice wireless speaker.
To get a better sense, much would you spend in Germany for a 1km and 10km taxi ride?
The focus on raising taxes is misguided in the following way: we should first figure out which policies are good how much they would cost and then find the cheapest way to raise the money with the least number of distortions and disincentives - not start by raising taxes by arbitrary amounts
An experimental, proof-of-concept, distributed forum built on top of Ethereum[1].

This means all the posts are cryptographically signed and stored in the blockchain.

[1] https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/etherforum
Thanks, I enjoyed reading that
The problems of economic inequality do not just boil down to lack of opportunities for the poor, it also encompasses disproportionate levels of power for the rich.

Improving opportunities for the poor is important, but so is providing a fairer playing field in both the economy and politics.
Hitler did start to replace/subvert his highest ranking military staff, and it's a big reason why he lost the war. Early on he did not micromanage the various theaters, which is partly why the Wermacht did so well early on. As the war went on, several of Hitler's best commanders were removed for railing against his out of touch orders.

Perhaps the best example of a promotion which detracted from the war effort was putting Hermann Goring in charge of the Luftwaffe.

You are right though that at the lower levels, the Wermacht could think flexibly.
Which saves you money on unneeded purchase. Although there's no reason to abandon them, since there are no extra shipping costs if you simply choose the free option that's right there in front of you on the screen (well I can only speak for the US).
Typically, if they don't meet a guaranteed delivery date, they'll give you a month extension of Prime to make up for it. If you make a few same-day orders during the busy holiday period, you can usually get enough misses to buy you another 6 months or so at least.

As for OnTrac, they usually call me if they can't find me. Have you tried calling their support? Usually they're pretty helpful. The very few times they haven't delivered, the day they were meant to, I've called their helpline and they delivered a second time at ~9PM that same day (while I'm home).
> that if someone did not see a like from you, it had consequences.

I'm 28 and people definitely notice when you don't notice one of their posts. A like is often just an aknowledgement of "Yes, I saw this, I still follow what you're up to, we're still friends"