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Or break stuff from one release to another. I fear that the web app approach to release often and break often is getting into Linux userland development. Gtk3 is another example of that. 3.16 was fine and 3.18 started drawing slower and displaying black rectangles anytime while a built-in dialog (color, file, etc.) is opening. Then there's Gtk3's reluctance to support themes. Almost all themes have to be ported again for each Gtk3 release. And you cannot configure your theme once and reuse the config ($HOME) on two different versions of a linux distro. If GNOME wouldn't approach the default theme like everybody uses Gtk3 on a tablet, it wouldn't be problem to have no theming. I've been using a Gtk2 theme I wrote for at least 12 years or even longer and it never glitched on me. This is the same mindset systemd development in general seems to have. But like in all organizations I've seen reasonable developers in the systemd community and those who are not.
YCR sounds really intriguing, a bit more information would be very interesting indeed.
Interesting advice.

I don't really work in a dangerous part of town. But there's a group of shiftless young men who constantly pop up here and there. I refer to them as the Meth Head Bicycle Club (MHBC) as they tend to bike around and assemble in small groups at the local McDonald's or Rite-Aid (where AFAICT they take turns shoplifting petty items).

The other day I was walking to a nearby restaurant in the area that takes me along a somewhat marginal low-traffic area that borders an older industrial zone. As I'm walking down the road I see a member of what looks like the MHBC biking towards me. As he got closer, I noticed he was audibly muttering random swear words. I didn't feel threatened by it but was obviously on my guard. He biked past without incident and I just concluded he was crazy. But something didn't seem right about that conclusion. Why the bike (which was one of those urban lowrider types and seemed to be in pretty good shape)?

Your first bullet point now makes me wonder if this wasn't actually a quite uncrazy deliberate behavior. That would make more sense.
you can play with it here too: http://somatic.io/models/jtoy/neural-style-demo
What on Earth do you think the Federal government is, exactly? By what magic is a government over ten million people to be distrusted, but by aggregating 325 million people's government all of which are also ruled over by these presumably nontrustworthy states, are magically transformed into bastions of sense and sensibility? Where's the line, exactly? It's all the same people!

Personally, I think it's just you can sort of imagine a state-sized government, but the Federal government is just inconceivably large so you end up modeling it by what you imagine it could conceivably be, rather than a model that resembles what it is. Other than the fact our Federal government is more interested in fighting Christianity than enforcing it, I could substantiate everything else you said for our Federal government, too. In fact, some of them are clearly more the responsibility of the Federal government right now.
>> to stay in Pluto orbit, either you carry a lot of fuel with you to slow down

Gravity assist can be used often used to speed up a spacecraft, but can also be used to slow it down.

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

In addition, atmospheric drag can also be used to slow down a spacecraft passing a planet.
Except no hoverboards.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262905-major-airlin...
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Yeah. That's why I think Elon Musk is absolutely the least representative rich entrepreneur on the planet. He's one of the few 'rich and powerful billionaires' whose hobby happens to be fixing the world. It's a rare thing; your average billionaire is nothing like that. In fact, many laws that exist today were created to protect us from rich people whose hobbies did not include making things better for everyone.
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Cover it with solar cells.
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Hey thanks again Nick! Really just starting to get the ball rolling with this project. The feedback has been overall positive, so the biggest tasks right now are getting users happy with some needed features, and spreading the word. I'll update this post if I have plans to open it up.
Long way to go from 5 to 26. What else is in the works? ;)
> The common conclusion is that the only real cure for the Great Depression was World War II

Probably the common conclusion, but I think 1946-1948 congressional action had quite a bit to do with the the baby boom years. Its an interesting era to read up on.
Triton?
Part of Pluto is essentially a giant icy lava lamp
I wonder if Flickr and Tumblr would be better off under a spun off entity.
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Would love to see a discussion of build systems for modern code. Trying to decide between autoconf/cmake/scons/ninja/gyp for new projects is like flipping a coin... They all have their advantages and disadvantages and there is no clear winner.
It's literally impossible to perform the activity as specified in this lesson plan (in a normal classroom environment). Inserting your hand will cause some exposure of the inside of the bag to air.

Also: "Heresy kisses" -- Nice proofreading. Damn good thing this lesson plan isn't meant for students to view directly.

Is it too much to ask for commercially-supplied teaching tools to go through a basic quality control process?
I should have been more clear, I meant that you're in the right lane and traffic in the left lane is going much faster.

Several states have laws stating that slower traffic must keep to the right, but it's not necessarily dependent upon speed limit.
Exactly. Phishing someone's password and not using it might be a T&C violation, but shouldn't necessarily be illegal (you might, for instance, be doing a study on user gullibility, or be part of a red team checking the security policies of a partner or supplier). Actually using that password, on the other hand...
As with my other reply... do you somehow imagine that all Federal agencies are wonderfully and wisely managed? By what mental gymnastics are you maintaining that belief? Have you ever been critical of Homeland Security? Ever thought our government was too responsive to concerns about terrorists? Ever thought they were responding to climate change incorrectly? Think Obamacare is not everything it should be?

Nobody really believes in the existence of this Federal government that you and nitrogen are hypothesizing for solely rhetorical reasons. It's just an argument picked up briefly to advocate for more government, then discarded in the next moment, because you're not willing to live by the rest of its implications (namely, that where you and the Federal government disagree, the Federal government must be correct; if you are not willing to say that clearly, this argument falls apart). It is not rational to compare real state governments to hypothetical federal governments.
That would actually be a really great idea. I wonder if it would be tough to get race/gender/age just from the linkedin profile.
It's a grey area legally, and is usually prevented by ethics committees and industry bodies. Practically, if you collect the information you run the risk of a large anti-discrimination suit down the track.
The usual proxy for race/religion is first name, last name and zip-code - name clustering gives very strong risk differentiation (I crunch numbers for insurance companies).
> If the behavior is not predictively relate increased claims activity, then it wouldn't be penalized

yeah, sure. i totally believe that. ever actually deal with an insurance company? they pretty much do whatever the hell they want unless there's enough people willing to sue in a class action suit. this goes for consumer, business, financial, whatever.

when this becomes mainstream i will go with alternative insurance providers that do not track my driving habits even if it comes at a huge premium.
I'm not saying that ZP was an obvious winner when you funded it, because you didn't even fund it!* And that's kind of the point.

The companies that get into YC are often speculative in their ideas. Maybe it is devaluing the idea over the execution. Maybe it is the belief that getting in early to a growing trend is more valuable than reinventing an existing idea.

Regardless, the result is great teams of founders who think the key to success is a crazy idea. Sometimes crazy ideas work (AirBnB was kinda nuts at the time) but there seems to be a heavy weight in companies funded towards those types of investments versus the ZenPayrolls. Which tends to attract the same.

* They were Switchboard Labs at the time, doing something totally different.
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If everyone had to win the Putnam to understand the basics of wastewater treatment, we'd be in deep... well, shit.
That's an interesting list. A few I liked:

* thompsonenteprises.com

* uberpromo.info

* kinneyconstructiion.com

* blackbeartactical.com (real domain: blackbeardtactical.com)
Unit tests? In C? I worked on a system processing millions of dollars a day in real time transactions, written in C++ with lower level libraries written in C. Some of it was written in K&R pre-ANSI C.

There was not one unit test. And there probably still isn't.
I was surprised too. It's not that it's dangerous, it's that it's potentially sensitive military technology.

According to the WSJ story[1] cited in this link, "the shipping crate was clearly marked as containing material subject to rigorous export controls". Makes me wonder how often this sort of thing gets shipped around, and how many spy agencies have people in place with the world's various freight operations.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/missing-u-s-missile-shows-up-in-...
> decent wage growth, cheap housing

These are not the case in California, where the opposite is unfortunately true.
Which is executed on say early stepping CPU that has a vulnerability.
Growing pains. Problems aside it does show that there is a sizable market and the health effects have not panned out to rot the state from the inside out, as drug scaremongers have sworn would happen for decades and decades.
All this talk about email forgery... so why isn't all all of this email authenticated with GPG? This type of authentication is a solved problem.

Yes, in the general case PKI is a broken and web-of-trust is hard to bootstrap, but protection against scams like this don't need to solve the general case. Distributing keys internally isn't hard. Even some communication external to the organization should be easily authenticated with pubkey crypto - it's not more difficult than the business contracts everybody already uses regularly.

Why is everybody trying to solve this with email headers or fallible human judgment?
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This is an interesting study that could get 20kg into Pluto orbit. It uses gridded ion engines coupled to multiple Radioisotope Thermal Generators.

PDF:
http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/PRO/ACT-RPR-PRO-ISTS2004-Plut...
It's not that I don't believe you that there are foods with MSG in them that trigger symptoms. But if you can eat a couple of tomatoes without triggering symptoms, it doesn't sound like it's the glutamate that's doing it. And MSG is just sodium and glutamate; it dissolves instantly in water.
Asymptotically, yes; prediction = compression (if you have a model for a bitstream which produces probabilities over the next bit, it can be fed into an arithmetic encoder and you now have a compressor). In this case, it's not practically helpful. A VGG is 528MB all on its own, so you need to compress a lot of images to make back that 0.5GB use plus runtime dependencies.
http://economics-charts.com/gdp/gdp-1929-2004.html#table

The New Deal had already kickstarted the economy by the time WWII rolled around - although obviously WWII served as an even larger public works and employment program. (The government did, however, have wage and price controls for many decades after the Great Depression.)

As you can see in the chart, GDP had already doubled by 1941, returning to pre-Depression levels, with New Deal programs beginning in 1933. You can see that WWII again nearly doubled GDP from 1941 to 1945.
I'm 23. Do I think paying 50% of our budget on medicare and social security is sustainable? No. Personally, I believe it to be completely unsustainable given the lower birthrates, higher medical costs, higher levels of chronic disease and obesity, much higher life expectancies.

Can I empathize with someone who paid into these programs with years of hard work and is expecting the "fair" payout they were promised? Yes.

Am I making a value judgement of what is truly "fair"? No. That's completely subjective and can be argued in favor of either side.
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That may be true of industrial systems, but human systems bite back. If you devise a strategy for the stock market or the startup market to make more money that anyone else, people who get wind of that strategy can (and will) devise a counter-strategy to eat your lunch.

Innovation is not zero-sum, but if you create a monoculture of "what works", then what will almost certainly eventually work in the market is something different than the monoculture. An interesting analogy here is Feyerabend's take on creativity in science, "Against Method."

Also, I strongly disagree that Google has figured out a process for innovation. Google does not have "one hit after another." They have a hit here and there in a sea of failure, just like Microsoft did. IBM, on the other hand, had one hit after another, until the market figured out how to "disrupt" them, and did.

As an investor I've spent much of the last twenty years trying to figure out how to make a better risk-adjusted return. Either I'm a complete idiot, or it's not as easy as it sounds.
How often are YOU dealing with police?
You're not an adult until you reach some point where friends/family stop trying to help you?
You can probably get away with undergraduate degree graduation year as a rough proxy for age.

age(grad_year) ~= (2016 - grad_year) + 22
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Yet Microsoft and NVidia are able to provide a much better experience for NDK users, for a platform they don't own.

So what are those Google experts doing?

I like Java a lot, but C++ is the current kind of portability across mobile OS for native applications, as common language across SDKs.

If I would be doing this commercially, I would have gone Xamarin already.
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> the results here are extremely poor compared to modern techniques.

Could you link a demonstration of the much superior results?
How does this point about adoption have anything to do with the parent's point about the capability of the engineers?
Absolutely agreed! We haven't gone as far as to make Cyph truly FLOSS, but our source code is publicly available under the Ms-RSL: https://github.com/cyph/cyph

In the near future, we plan to go further than that by releasing a script that builds the source code locally and computes its hash, then compares that to the hash of the current production signed package and alerts you if they don't match. The intention is to make it easily detectable if we ever sign and deploy code that differs from what's in GitHub, such that any hypothetical "secret" backdoor would need to be hidden in plain sight right in the revision control commit log (which we would expect to eventually be caught by an independent security analyst).
It's really more of an issue of space / weight, it's pretty easy to setup a water recycling system on earth just by using the right soils, plants, etc.
I've frequently thought this over the past few years, and I feel like the conclusion I have is different than others in this thread.

I don't becoming an adult is really about you, exactly. It's not about your independence, or your actions.

It's about when other people become dependent on you.

I think this is the way that it has long been thought of in cultures outside of the post-Enlightenment West. This was my strong opinion after reading Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, (Russia isn't western like the rest of Europe) and Aquinas, Augustine, and Aristotle. I think that this is in part what the Apostle Paul is saying in 1 Corinithians 13:11 ( http://www.esvbible.org/1+Corinthians+13%3A11/ ), where you'll note that he doesn't say the equivalent of stopping to be like a child meant I had become a man, but rather I became a man, so I stopped being like a child.

I think about soldiers I have met and know. They change when they get to NCO status. I think of the boys I have met from North Omaha, which is arguably one of the worst places in America for young African American males, and that there is a difference between the ones who are the oldest in their families and the ones who are the youngest, even if they are the same age. And I think of my friends, and how we've changed when we've had kids, or when someone started a business and got ( real, not just one of his buddies-while-still-in-high-school ) employees.

Adulthood isn't about you, it's about your relationship to others.
For me, it's now saying: "Oops! LinkedIn error. Please check your url."
You have 3d printers that can print themselves. That is a cornerstone.
Maybe. I disagree about BTC. It sounds amazing in theory, but in practice I would rather help millions of small business owners.

When you talk with them, they never say (or say without knowing it) that their biggest problem is financial transparency. Or that customers want to buy but want an anonymous currency. Or that they need to switch between many different currencies. BTC has always felt like a solution in search of a problem. The blockchain is wonderful technology as well, but that's not the hardest part of most startups.
> Some other fellows in this thread provided some features in C++ that you can't learn about in Rust, fyi.

Variadic generics and template templates are hardly interesting compared to concepts, pattern matching, and lifetimes. I use those every day in Rust, they simply don't exist in C++, and with the exception of lifetimes plenty of other languages have them too, so they're broadly useful to know. Variadic generics and template templates, on the other hand, are useful for a small subset of advanced library authors who have been programming in C++ for years.
If diversity is real, then the things that are broken can't be solved by the central authority practically.

Is there not real diversity? Are there not legitimately different cultures in different parts of the country? Do these cultures not call for different solutions?

You really can't have both of a political culture of "celebrating diversity" and "one-size-fit-all from Washington DC solutions".
Yeah but USA is having two economies right now that are masked as one in statistics.
Totally agree. If you listen to the linked conversation, the major source of overhead they discuss is the layers and layers of requirements an assurances that have been accumulated into the procurement process. I get the impression that every time a govt project goes 4x over budget, someone adds a new requirement "To ensure this never happens again!" After a few decades of this, we end up with a guarantee of 20x overhead.
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You could have the net predict an entire distribution for each pixel. Like a mixture of gaussians or something. But then sampling from it would be incorrect. E.g. it might not know if the car is blue or red, so half the pixels would randomly be red, and the other have blue. It would look terrible.

Somewhere, the neural net needs to decide "this car is going to be blue" and then be consistent with that. Adversarial nets allow that, by having random inputs. One of the inputs to the NN is a random number, and that random number might determine if the car is going to be blue or red this time.

The cool thing about this is that it allows you to generate multiple samples. You can generate 10 different images and select the best one. And the adversarial nets should learn to approximate the true distribution as closely as possible. And I don't think there is any other method that can do that.

Another idea would to just have a loss function that doesn't punish it for getting a wrong color. But rewards it only when it gets very close to the right color. This way the algorithm doesn't worry about producing muddy brown colors when it isn't' sure, it just goes with a best guess.
The first rule of C is don't write C if you can avoid it).

I interpreted that differently than you. I didn't think take it to use another language. But to keep c code as concise as possible and to not reinvent the wheel when a good library is available.
There's a reasonable case for including internal actors in one's threat model for larger companies or ones working in extraordinarily sensitive product domains. Most startups probably don't need to prevent the team from being able to read credentials, because that's theatre when they have 15 different ways to get to any secret the company has.

We use Ansible's vault feature to decrypt a few centralized secret files onto machines at deploy time. This lets us commit the encrypted text of the files. (The source of truth for the key is in Trello, IIRC, but it could be anywhere you have to auth in as an employee to view.)

It's modestly annoying (operations like "check what changed in the secret configuration file as a result of a particular commit" are impossible) but seems like a reasonable compromise to ensure that e.g. nobody can insta-create an admin session if they happen to have a copy of our codebase and a working Internet connection.

Secrets are communicated to processes which need them in boring Linux-y ways like "file i/o" and "stuff it into an environment variable that the process has access to." If you're capable of doing file i/o or reading arbitrary memory, we're in trouble. Of course, if you can do either of those on our production infrastructure and also connect to our database, we've already lost, so I don't see too much additional gain in locking down our database password.

If you're starting from the position "I have a Rails app which has passwords in cleartext in database.yml" this is an easy thing to roll out incrementally: move the password from database.yml to ENV['RAILS_DB_PASSWORD'], spend ~5 minutes getting your deployment infrastructure to populate that from an encrypted file (details depend on your deployment infrastructure -- I am liking ansible, a lot, for this), verify it works, then change passwords. Voila; Github no longer knows your database password and your continuous integration system no longer knows your production credentials. One threat down; zero coordination required with any other system you use or any other team at the company. You can standardize on this across your entire deployment or not, your call, and it's exactly as easy to back out of as it was to get started.
My guess is that this is the Motorola Mobility division that Lenovo recently purchased as opposed to Lenovo proper.
Yeah, but we can grow corn and can't grow sugar. It a classic protectionist policy. Since HFCS and sugar are basically perfect substitutes, and the price of HFCS is so low it hardly seems to matter to consumers.

Its also a stupid policy.
Well that was fast. Nice work!
It's convenient if Wall Street views it that way because then it's not scary ("It's just like GE!"). But Calico was never related to Google, and it's the startup they mention as the model example. Larry Page's full-time job is investing in companies and managing his portfolio. He's a VC. The only real question is how far he goes, and he tends to go pretty far.
What lessons did you learn?