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Statement from Bitcoin Core 2016-01-07
I don't understand what you're even trying to say.. aren't companies expected to ramp up their revenue over time?
People often point to the "ghost cities" like Ordos when declaring China to be in a massively overbuilt real estate bubble. Yet studies such as those done by Mckinsey below predict 350M more people moving to cities by 2030 [1]. Given NYC has a population of about 8M, it appears China actually needs to build an additional 44 NYC sized cities (or expand existing ones) by 2030.

Makes you question weather they really in a bubble? It appears they could fill Ordos and 43 other new cities in the next 15 yrs! Perhaps they need to be putting these cities up even more rapidly.

[1]http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/preparing_for_...
You're doing the exact thing that WalterBright complained about above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10859674). Of course that is not what the poster meant.
Google Maps Engine service shutdown in 3 weeks
Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)
Why I Created the First Prize for Real-World Cryptography
Asians haven't faced horrible racism in the US? Asians have and still do face racism in the states.
Both the enterprise and educational versions offer you full control. Consumer versions offer what I consider to be enough control, but obviously that's subjective.

If you offer the option to disable telemetry, some people will disable it. If there is any pattern to which people do this, and we all know there is, it introduces sampling bias and casts aspersions on any conclusions you draw from that data.
Even though I've been pretty active with and supportive of Snapchat from the beginning, I had always thought of it as a fad that would die off pretty quickly. I also was quick to judge negatively any new features or modes of using the app - such as chat, stories, filters, etc.- assuming it was diluting the brand. At least so far, I have been incredibly wrong almost every time (other than the payment feature, that never really took off to my knowledge). It's pretty impressive how they've managed to not only stay relevant, but bring people into a content sharing platform that was initially a novelty and now a pretty major method of communication, at least with some people within my social circles.
I've been involved in commercial contract litigation and was in the entertainment business for years.

If you want to resort to talking about contract law, then there's obviously no case at all, there's a contract on Stubhub and it's explicit that the buyer has no further recourse. End of discussion.

In the hypothetical, which I'm referencing, my argument holds. If you've ever been involved in actual litigation you'd know that proving damages for hypothetical things that might have happened is really hard to do, and that specific performance is an equity remedy and while possible, is generally a last resort.

In the actual situation under discussion, CA small claims is generally not a court of equity unless specifically authorized by statute, notwithstanding the perishable nature of these tickets and likelihood of even being able to get an argument heard before the game took place.
Turn your toy mini-quadcopter into acrobatic drone with opensource firmware
Microsoft's Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
Just an aside, if you're using nginx, I'd look at ngx_http_limit_req_module which can alleviate this case.
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MySQL still does not have transactional DDL.
A particularly egregious case:

http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/06/09/massachusetts...
In regards to hedges and weasel words: I never used more weasel words and hedges than when I sold computers at Circuit City. I knew what the policies should be and how we should be able to help customers, but I had no power to actually make that happen so I used tons of should, may, probably, likely, etc.

I hated it and it took me a while to unlearn that way of talking.
There are two cruical properties you want, I think:

A) It must be possible to automatically and completely mechanically ensure that implementation & proof don't get out of sync. Having a formal proof for an algorithm which isn't the algorithm that you've actually ended up implementing doesn't really help you one whit :). This is relatively simple for unit tests and property-based tests like QuickCheck: Just observe that the number of tests run actually increases over time and never decreases unexpectedly. (Actually, it seems to be rather rare to have support from Continuous Integration tools for tracking the latter.)

B) There must be (in some sense) at least some non-trivial difference between the implementation & "proof". (At the absurd extreme: bisimulation doesn't really work as proof of anything if the implementations are one and the same.) For example, in Idris the implementation is basically just code while the proof is the accomanying types -- which ensures that they're not basically just saying the (trivially) same thing, even though the types greatly constrain what the implementation can do.

I think that the allure of "practical" dependent types (e.g. Idris) may be that such languages trivially obey both properties. Of course you still end up with a "trusted computing base" which is non-trivial in such cases.
One reason to use binary formats like HDF5 is to avoid precision loss when storing floating-point values. I started using HDF5 once exactly for this reason and it was overkill. HDFView requires Java installed and HDF library with single implementation and complex API is a problem too.

For simple uses I now use '%a' printf specifier. It is specifically designed to avoid losing a single bit of informaiton. And you can easily read floats stored this way in numpy by using genfromtxt with optional converters= argument and builtin float.fromhex function.
AirBar Adds Touch Screen Capability to Any Laptop
> That's probably why you don't hear so much about UFOs these days like we did a few decades ago

I'm a believer in the cellphone hypothesis - claims of UFOs sightings have dropped once everyone had a small high-quality video camera in their pocket, and no good excuse for not putting their visitation up on Vine.
I have never seen a cable, cell phone, or utility account reported on my credit, other than the initial credit check to open the account. But it seems everyone around me thinks paying a power bill late will affect their credit.

Do companies in other areas typically report such accounts to the credit agencies?
>knowing anything I write can be found by Googling my real name has certainly made me write defensively

Which is one reason many people prefer anonymity and pseudonyms!

Nothing about me can be found by Googling my real name. As far as the internet is concerned - I don't actually exist.
I agree, that looks a lot nicer. Easier on the eyes.
FTA: "Throughout history, societies have existed with far less coercion than ours, and while these societies have had far less consumer goods and what modernity calls “efficiency,” they also have had far less mental illness. This reality has been buried, not surprisingly, by uncritical champions of modernity and mainstream psychiatry. Coercion—the use of physical, legal, chemical, psychological, financial, and other forces to gain compliance—is intrinsic to our society’s employment, schooling, and parenting. However, coercion results in fear and resentment, which are fuels for miserable marriages, unhappy families, and what we today call mental illness."

How many great people did we lose because they weren't 'compliant' enough to conform properly? I can sure think of a few.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color

He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I've met people like him at work. Overly sensitive people is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.
>I know I've had many and extensive (and quite good) conversations with my fiancee as to how she was brought up in a family that valued emotional reasoning over logical reasoning.

I understand that most people value emotional reasoning more than I do. I don't get people valuing it more than logical reasoning.

There is just so much potential danger with implicit and explicit bias. Sexism and racism tends to be more the result of emotional reasoning than logical reasoning. (Think of a jury/judge sentencing a black guy to a harsher sentence than a white guy who did the same crime. Imagine if the difference between if the justification was the black guy felt more dangerous vs a justification such as in this instant the black guy having similar prior offenses. Which justification is racism?)
That's pretty much customer service 101 / consulting ABCs. Sometimes you have to learn it through experience if it doesn't come natural to you, but I think it can be learned, taught, and coached.

The more nuanced, hard part is to be able to effectively read (over a phone even) whether your customer is the type that has been burned by charlatans in the past and wants technical excellence first... or whether they would prefer "bedside manner" moreso (this is an area that a lot of doctors also fail routinely). Some people are extremely hard to read, and it gets more difficult the higher up a corporate hierarchy you go and for more lucrative verticals in my experience - they're all used to very strong poker faces. But few high level business decisions are made purely upon raw information, so understanding emotion becomes very important if your business focuses upon fewer customers with greater $ / customer.

All too often people fail to read the emotions behind what someone wants and tries to execute to the details of the request instead of looking for context first before touching a keyboard. I worked with a good engineer that diligently worked on problems reliably, and my customer had an issue that they really just didn't care about that much but only wanted to just send out the door for the sake of finishing it and marking it done (it's turning into shelfware, but there's... obligations / due dilligence). I had a hard time communicating that over the phone with the customer present and the customer was getting frustrated (visible but not audible) but another senior engineer figured out between the lines what I was implying between my words, drastically reduced effort on the problem being worked, and the customer was happier for it.
I'd say a cache isn't the right structure for passing around data (or references to data) that you know will be accessed very soon by completely different code.

As userland code, you'd like to grant the OS access to a particular subset of lines in D$ while keeping it out of your C$ altogether. Traditional implementations fail in both respects.... and at the same time, the OS probably can't take advantage of its own historical locality because userland has evicted it since the last call.

From what other people are saying it sounds like these problems are being worked on, though.
Oh I don't know, it seems to me that the PR2 is designed for industry so its pricing is going to reflect that. I suspect there is a home robot space that some startup can fill sooner than later. Whether it does all the things I listed is the big question and I suspect it won't, but it may be able to do a few things that make it a worthwhile purchase.

I've played a bit with opencv, pcl, ros, etc. There's some very impressive image recognition stuff available right now that works well on commodity x86 platforms(1). I don't think the market is expecting a HAL-like or Jetsons like robot, but I could see something akin to an early 80s home computer where the product is clearly a long list of compromises but it does a few things very well and is compelling. Home robotics may be the same way for a while until it has its 1984 Macintosh moment, which as you say might be a decade or two or four away.

I did appreciate your posting, but I think its a little dismissive of the some of the homebrew and smaller scale stuff out there. The PR2 is a VC backed monster designed to bring industrial robots to retail, hospitals, etc. These guys want to build the 747 of the robot world. That's great. But there are people out there building the Cessnas of the robotics world. I expect an affordable consumber product that isn't a joke xmas 2018-2020. There's just way too much potential here.

1. Home robot hackers falling in love with the super low power NUC which gives a CPUMark score around 5,000+

http://www.showusyoursensors.com/2014/09/intel-nuc-for-ros.h...
People often point to the "ghost cities" like Ordos when declaring China to be in a massively overbuilt or "artificial" real estate bubble, yet studies such as those done by Mckinsey below predict 350M more people moving to cities by 2030 [1]. Given NYC has a population of about 8M, it appears China actually needs to build an additional 44 NYC sized cities (or expand existing ones) by 2030.

Makes you question weather they really in a bubble? It appears they could fill Ordos and 43 other new cities in the next 15 yrs! Perhaps they need to be putting these cities up even more rapidly.

[1]http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/urbanization/preparing_for_...
Deflating Delayed Choice Quantum Erasure
> No, fans have no choice. Entertainers allow it by using Ticketmaster.

Disclaimer: Ex-Ticketmaster employee.

This doesn't quite hit it. Entertainers encourage it as they get paid to do so.

Ticketmaster is basically paid to be a bad guy. If you hate Ticketmaster, then all is working to plan.

Because what you're not doing is hating the actual decision maker on those fees -- the artist, the promoter, & the venue. Ticketmaster splits those fees. Ticketmaster wants to get paid of course, but the deal can be structure those fees any which way.

Want a low (or no) fees with Ticketmaster? If that's what the artist, promoter & venue want, that's what will happen.

Want a low ticket price for advertising & high fees to increase your profit? Ticketmaster can do that too.

At the end of the day, the artist & promoter own the tickets, not Ticketmaster.
Computer scientists launch campaign to guarantee bug-free software
> People remember the last 2% most vividly.

Agreed. I'm going to remember this guy as the one who shoved a pop-up in my face asking for my email shortly after I reached the end of the article. Not to mention the first 2%, where he asked for my email so he could send me his business tips before I even got to read the article.
China halts stock market circuit breaker
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> A tip is fully extra incentive

No, it's not. I agree completely that it would be great if we could get rid of tipping and actually pay waiters (and all other tipped professions) an appropriate salary. But they don't get paid an appropriate salary. Tipping is not extra incentive, tipping is their salary. If you don't tip, you're literally expecting someone to serve you for somewhere around $2-$3 an hour.

> This sounds kinda close to a personal attack.

Why, are you the kind of person who threatens to withhold tips from waiters? Well actually, given your previous paragraph, it sounds like you are that kind of person.
> Why don't larger business do more frequent withdrawals from PayPal to a proper bank?

They should, and do. You can even automate daily withdrawals and send funds back to your actual bank account.

The OP didn't have that foresight, or was overly optimistic about how things would run. In either case, it's fairly naive to leave large amounts of funds sitting in a payment processor's account. Move it to your bank account... or risk it being toyed with.
Aren't most GRBs extra-galactic in origin? If anything, being on the outskirts means there's less matter protecting us from them.
Happens all the time and has been the most requested feature of all time. I like to take the charitable view and say the current design is there to let your ego explain away down votes - i.e. I am only being down voted by accident, not my post is terrible.
The issue may not be that there is too much building, but that they're building in places people aren't going to be moving to. Ordos is in inner mongolia, and while there are a lot of people there, a lot more are moving to the east coast cities.

Right, like if you were predicting 40% city growth in the US, the solution would not be to build new mega cities in Utah (which has a comparable percentage of US's population as Inner Mongolia has in China).
In this particular scenerio you may do better encrypting the content and having keys shared between you and your friend, but not Facebook.
Yet, the time needed to split the check is already lost from his point of view, along with the extra tip he might have received form the next table. At that point, annoying the customer is simply irrational behavior: she loses even more money only to make a point, knowing that the customer will retort to what you call shitty behavior to make the point back.

While typically irrational for the individual, anger can be rational for the selfish gene, thus be preserved in the species: angry bees are avoided by other animals even if individual bees are suicidal, thus making the suicide of an individual work for the group.

So whenever you feel the need to go on a rampage destroying yourself along with your archenemy, you should really ask yourself if you are still in control, or you are executing out a program developed 1 million years ago and designed to protect the occupants of your cave from attacks of rival hominids, even at the price of your life.
They've added some interesting features like stories from your city or events near you which are a subset of videos hand-picked from different people who submitted them for that event/location. This is really handy if you want to get a sneak peak into some event near you that you were unable to attend.

In addition, you can do real time face-to-face video chat, just like face-time. They've also been pretty smart about the implementation of it. If 2 people are snap messaging (not video, just text) and they both have the chat window open, the snapchat camera icon would start glowing blue, signifying that you can initiate a face-to-face video chat with the person.
George Soros Warns of Global Economic Crisis
This was due to the US seeing how the "punish the losers" strategy after WWI led directly to WWII and us trying not to repeat that same mistake after WWII (sorta kinda, there was more at stake, such as the Cold War, which helped shift alliances also).

But basically the US decided helping the people who lost the war reconstruct can keep our influence in the area and reduce the desire to rise back up and retaliate against them.

The US actually tried exactly this same approach after the Afghanistan and Iraq wars (remember all the money spent on rebuilding afterwards, training police forces, etc?), and it turned out to not work out so well for them this time around.
Agree completely, just pointing out the scale of urbanization and trying to make people question what the media "knows" about China.
And that sucks. We need you to share your experiences. We need to feel your struggles and understand them well enough to identify with them, and really internalize, "what if that were me?"

When that happens, most of us respond with empathy and because we understand, support and activism to make it better and have one another's backs.

Progress happens, and things get better. I believe in all of that deeply. I've paid hard to stand for it too. More than once.

Some of us respond with rage, hate, and all manner of emotions, and that sucks. It's not like any of us actually picks these things, so how does it make any real sense to be held to account for them? (Color, gender, gay, etc...)

It is, like you say, a contact sport with very real implications for us all. To me, that contact is good. It helps to understand others and it can help to keep the worst in check for fear of consequences too.

But there is a lot of difficulty in that quiet response one just can't quite pin down... fired one day, for example.

I'm an ordinary white guy, and I've had this sort of thing happen when I've gone to bat for someone who needed it.

Making things better is expensive in this way, and I'm not entirely sure we can avoid it. We may blunt it some, but people remain exposed all the same.

I understand your fear. It has a real basis and all of us must weigh these things. At some points in life, maybe we can take the hit. At others, it may cost too much.

I don't have answers, other than to say there are a lot of us who get it.
IAAL (but not his lawyer or your lawyer).

The standard measure of damages in contract is expectancy, that is the breaching party has to put the non-breaching party in as good a position as he would have been had he not breached.

Had the seller not breached the buyer would have had tickets with a fair market value of $6000 (at the time of breach) and been out the $900 he paid for the tickets. After the breach the buyer got back the $900, but is still $5100 worse off than if the seller had fulfilled his part of the bargain. Those are the expectancy damages he suffered.

Given that going to this specific game is a unique experience that can't be duplicated a court could order specific performance (i.e. that the tickets be handed over) as tacon suggests below. But: 1) I don't think small claims courts can order specific performance, 2) you probably couldn't get before a small claims court judge in time, and 3) if the seller didn't actually have the ticket then he couldn't be ordered to turn it over. So monetary damages are more likely.
In the US, yes. Almost all utilities except perhaps the water company can report delinquent payments to the three credit agencies.
>He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia.

I mean, I think you buy into and identify with a concept that is explicitly, by definition anti-white..

Is that not racist?

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>This is exactly why I don't want to write about race issues.

Because everyone needs to agree with you about them 100%?
I use a lot of what are called weasel words because the reality is that they are the most accurate words. For example, someone buying a lottery ticket will probably lose. I have trouble saying they definitely will because I know there is a slim chance they will win. And if 1 in a 100,000,000+ is enough to make me avoid saying definitely, imagine what chances such as 1 in a 1,000 or 1 in a 100 do to my word choice.
Price is a function of faith in the future.

What we're seeing is a lack of faith that many are finding disturbing.
I never heard a Ukrainian call Russia Mordor, nor either russian or ukrainian call USA valinor.

Hell, most of the Russian speakers wouldn't probably know what Valinor means in the first place.

Yea, some people call it. But they are so marginal. I agree with you, this is a specific attack against google's algorithm.
Paywalls, I would think, are primarily a blocker because the site is wasting my time and asking me for personal info. If my Bitcoin account is already hooked up, I recon those things should go away. We'll have to see how it goes though. I think I'd much rather click one button and pay a tiny amount of Internet Funny Money than watch an obnoxious ad.
I'm objecting to the claim that users are "powerless to stop this [data collection] even if they knew what was happening, and they don't." To the contrary, it's very clear what is being collected and how to turn it off. As well as what you can't disable in cheaper versions, and which versions you need to buy in order to get that option.

Obviously consumers would like Microsoft to sell them a product with more features for cheaper. But that's no different from any business ever, yet people are throwing a shitfit all over the internet based primarily on misinformation.
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