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This is one of the most insipid pieces of writing I've read on this site in a long time. Despite apparently achieving his dreams and becoming a millionaire, he sounds very bitter and unhappy because...a politician isn't paying him lip service and personally thanking him? Because people have hard lives and want to see a system that works for them rather than oppressing them under of the guise of "hard work pays off"?

"But the wonderful thing about America is that if you are willing to make the right sacrifices, you can achieve whatever you want."

Except this is patently false for a large, growing portion of people, those that get denied opportunities because of their race, their class, their names, their lack of funds.

The whole rhetoric of "I gritted my teeth and pulled up my sleeves and became a millionaire and you can too!" is so hollow and facetious in its victim-blaming that it's insulting.

So yes, Rob May, I do think you are part of the problem. Not because you are a millionaire or worked hard, but because you are myopic and unsympathetic to anyone who is not like you.
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Depends on the audience as they have different demographics. Bing also has substantially lower volume, so can be a headache to manage separately without a bid management platform.

That said, Bing has a consistent history of mirroring AdWords changes, so this will likely occur on Bing as well. The key though is diversification because while they might do this as well, their ROAS might still be higher in the long run.
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> This seems a bit counter-intuitive given that serious problems are still being found years or even decades later. Perhaps battle-tested is insufficient.

Bugs will always exist. But that statement will apply equally to any software, regardless of language.

> New code can take advantage of the battle-tested nature of the original code even if it's in a different language.

That's why I referenced the Peter Naur paper on Programming as Theory Building---in practice, that may very well not be the case.
My mother in-law sends me socks once or twice a year and it's the best gift as otherwise I'll wear socks until they aren't even one piece anymore. Socks and good beer are the only gifts I normally enjoy receiving.

Anything else I'll buy for myself. I'm perfectly happy to not receive gifts.
I understand most of your post and your desire to have less stuff. However, when you can't bring wine (a consumable, literally no long term space-occupation or anything else, probably gone that night, if not you can just dump it down the drain) to dinner... sheesh.
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That's actually incredible idea for community hacker project.

Create loads of dirt cheap shotspotters with https://nurdspace.nl/ESP8266 plant them in your neighborhood. Make them report to community site so false positives could be eliminated by considering only simultaneous detection from nearby sensors.

Invite cops to use the site.
Ubuntu should be able to do it, as the multiarch spec was developed in collaboration [1]. I'm not sure how well-integrated it is with the rest of Ubuntu's archive and infrastructure though (for example, Ubuntu first used a modified syntax in sources.list vs Debian's dpkg --add-architecture approach [2]). My 80% figure is also just a wild guess, I've tried it very early and failed for some exotic packages, but right now I only use it for a few packages.

I understand what you mean about tightly integrated package dependencies, and for me Debian is the rare exception in that it mostly works. My main irk with it is that dpkg only allows one version of a package to be installed, so you end up with package names like gcc-4.9 to allow parallel installation. Or in your example, there's a lua5.1, lua5.2 and lua5.3 in the archive -- but that doesn't mean that every lua library is also available in all three versions.

But the package compatibility is still way better than ecosystems like Maven/Gradle or Stackage, where dependencies can be so tightly coupled that you end up working around old bugs in one package, or new bugs in another.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiarchSpec

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO
Government has gotten us all involved in an endless war of attrition in which the average person has almost nothing to gain and everything to lose.

After WWII, the US government and foreign policy got reconfigured in such a way as to assure the United States could defend itself from a nuclear superpower and to have access to the resources to re-fight World War II.

The original goal in all of the above was to keep the population safe. Things have evolved a little since then, however.
You are probably right, that it means nothing. And I am happy people think this because nothing is meaningless. I believe there is no grand secret to this number or of life.

In other words, things are the way they are because we wouldn't be able to fall in love, dance to the music and enjoy life, if things were otherwise.

Thinking too much about why, distracts from the now. Mystery is what makes life worth living. And hiding ourselves from our self is what makes discovery possible.

If reality is a computer simulation, then proving that is a bit redundant in my opinion.

However, I think it can be proven but once it is, what will there be to know?
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Which seems especially insidious to do to someone who's tripping. Holy shit.
The most fascinating part about alpha to me is the implication that it isn't actually constant, and varies over time and/or distance. I once read a suggestion that perhaps the observed universe is simply the portion of the greater universe where alpha has a value that lets things like stars, planets, and life exist.
Battle tested in the past != fit for future wars. The nature of systems has evolved. Attackers are more sophisticated, have better tools and probably understand C code better than most who still write it. So our tools need to evolve too. Admittedly rewriting full libs into another language sounds scary, but hey - since when did fear of the future stop it from coming?
I'm not sure I understand all the rage here against "clickbait" titles. I generally reserve a few down votes for folks that come in simply to comment on whether or not the title qualifies as "clickbait" -- comments like these truly add nothing to the conversation.

One of the purposes of a title on the web is to convince you to click on it. Good titles drive traffic. I don't get why we all get so hung up on how titles are written. If you don't like how something is worded, don't click on it.
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Looks awesome, unfortunately it's not residential. The cost of a place like this plus accomodation in Barcelona would be too much for me.

Something like this but with basic accomodation included would be amazing. I'm not sure whether anything like that even exists.
i disagree. i don't think the author's search method is intuitive at all. i think, even for a journalist, it's normal behavior to search by proper nouns and words of specificity, rather than pronouns and what we normally deem "filler" words such as "me" and "my".
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It's too bad the data is "off" because the map is quite stunning.

To call friendly fire incidents, riots and explosions and such "battles" seems a little suspect. A "battle" should involve one or more belligerents of significant force (i.e., > 100) in an organized campaign. Smaller battles are routinely called "skirmishes" and shouldn't really even be recorded in this sense. Unorganized violence is simply unrest or rioting. And accidents are exactly that.

Also, I highly doubt China is a relative haven for peace given their history and population. There's clearly a lack of data there (or rather, they don't bother recording all of the other things that the creator has decided to add as "battles").

I question the overall motives of this. It's almost as if the creator wants the west to seem more violent than the rest of the planet. I don't think that's the reality. We're all just as bad.
His conspiracy process model is wildly unlike that of actual empirical conspiracies. In particular, most of them do not require widespread, hidden knowledge of a single juicy lie that can be "exposed". Hell, a lot of objective cabals or conspiracies operate relatively openly, are fairly open about their general goals, & their actions are public records; the specific correlation between goals and actions is what is obscure.

"We further assume that a leak of information from any conspirator is sufficient to expose the conspiracy and render it redundant"

This is just stupid.
Wait, am I missing something? Isn't the "non-functional" code here wrong? There seems to be no filtering for only those departments that belong to the user's business, unlike the functional example where it uses "user.departments"
Interesting summary of some aspects of Black Holes.

I recently read a centennial volume on history of General Relativity of which Black Holes are extreme cases. Except for some initial GR solutions and astronomical confirmations in its first decade, GR became a backwater branch of physics for the next 50 years until Thorne and Hawking came along. I was in college in 1973 when the term Black Hole came into public use, though the book mentions some claims of earlier usage. Just giving some exotic phenomenon a snappy name can focus attention. I recently re-saw the 1967 Star Trek episode about time travel back as an UFO incident. They use the black hole concept, except called it a dark star then. Gravitational singularity was a competing name, but not as snappy. (To be precise it is possible to have an event horizon without a singularity, so they are not exactly the same thing.)
The thesis of this paper seems to be that there aren't many alternatives to 25519. But anybody who watched the fiasco of the IRTF trying to standardize a recommendation on 25519 knows that's not true. Browser vendors were sold on DJB's curve and asked IETF to add it to TLS; given that simple charter, people came out of the freaking woodwork with alternatives.

The "randomness derived from lotteries" property seems like a gimmick. Generating plausible random seeds isn't the hard problem with generating new curves. Rather, the problem is coming up with curves that are performant on common hardware without any patent-encumbered techniques.

It's also not clear to me how the $1MM curve is a meaningful alternative to 25519. Almost the entire paper is given to considering how to generate random parameters. Having accomplished that task, the paper simply generates a random Edwards curve, using their lottery generator to find a random prime, d, and base point, filtered against the SafeCurve requirements. So they end up with (in effect) a randomized version of Bernstein's curve. If 25519 somehow falls, why wouldn't this curve fall with it?

Compare this paper to those of 25519:

https://cr.yp.to/ecdh/curve25519-20060209.pdf

... or to FourQ:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/565.pdf

Also: the swipe at Brainpool seems disingenuous. Zero is the number of people who believe that Brainpool's mathematical constants were arranged specifically to create a backdoor. The point of BADA55 is that Brainpool's use of mathematical constants as seeds isn't dispositive, and that the performance-targeting parameters of 25519 are equally credible.
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Tv is a cool medium of which requires participation. If the audience (public) are not "put on" to terrorism, that is not participating, the the power of idea will cease (and the secondary effects like the issue raised here).
I can appreciate the sentiment, but I actually like doing things. Don't get me wrong, I probably spend much more time than most in front of my computer, but even so.

I'm a photographer -> Two bags full of camera gear, tripod...

I'm a hiker/backpacker -> Backpack, tent, sleeping bag, hiking boots...

I'm a cyclist -> Bike, helmet, gloves, pump...

I'm a computer engineer -> Solder station, wire cutters, crimping tools...

I'm a DIYer -> Saws, hammers, screwdrivers...

I would love to have less stuff, but the amount of myself that I would have to strip away for it to make sense is mind boggling to me. I go looking to get rid of stuff all the time, but even though I have a lot of things, I use all of them. I truly can't wrap my head around the idea of living a fulfilling life with only a laptop and whatever furnishings came with my apartment.
There actually is a formal version of "extreme status" on BA, in the form of a Black Card [1] [2]. Basically, you need to be something like "the guy responsible for the travel spend at big corp" and each membership is approved by the board.

Benefits supposedly include delaying an entire airliner by up to half an hour if you are running late, and it's so rare many lounge staff will deny you entry, not understanding what the card is.

[1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-clu...

[2] http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...
I don't buy the whole "real programmers would never make spyware." Who do you think made Stuxnet?
Long ago I read "essai de prospective demographique"[1] written by French demographers. They were raising the concerns you mention and were trying to warn the public of a coming "demographic winter". So your point of view is not rare.

That being said, even if a demographic winter would probably have very adverse consequences, as it is not clear how well the industrialized society would fare if the population was drastically reduced, I have hard time picturing how that could lead to the complete extinction of mankind.

There will always be pockets of population with high fertility, at the very least among highly religious communities. Even if as you suggest reproductive behavior is transmitted, that works both ways, and simple natural selection will always, in the end, favor the reproductive behavior that leads to increasing numbers.

Demographic winter is a serious concern, but I can't imagine it leading to a complete extinction.

1. https://books.google.fr/books/about/Essai_de_prospective_d%C...
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> Bugs will always exist. But that statement will apply equally to any software, regardless of language.

I'd be curious to see some research suggesting that the prevalence and severity of those bugs is identical regardless of development tool/language/runtime, but I'd be surprised if that's demonstrable.

The question at hand is not "will safer languages eliminate all bugs?" It's "will safer languages reduce the prevalence and severity of important classes of bugs?" I'd wager it's probably yes, but even if you disagree, I don't think that it's reasonable to suggest that because there will always be bugs we should never improve.
This is one of my biggest anticipated headaches for when we have kids. One of the hypothetical future grandparents likes to spoil...
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> The obvious answer is to say, "Don't associate yourself with the D/R Party unless you agree with all of their viewpoints," [...]

Well yeah. The point of a party is to obliterate the minor differences and bull forward efficiently. You're supporting all their platforms even if you only like a few.

> I believe we can end up with an even better answer that allows people to get organized

But can you think of one that doesn't involve signing up for someone else to represent you, lock-stock-and-barrel?

I think so, but I think we need to look beyond parties.
If the bus network in the suburbs of Murcia is bad, the people should work towards making it better. Collect sings, go to the council, say we want busses, trams, etc.

If you don't want to take your grandma by bus, take her by taxi.
Yeah, I really think the NHTSA should mandate a much higher minimum frequency.
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Yep, kindred spirits.

About twenty years ago I had to move, and not many friends showed up to help. It was an incredible burden, and that day I said "enough" with the material possessions. Went to the dump, and now its just me, a backpack, and a small storage closet.
Sure, but he point I made still stands. You can't pull shenanigans with the data when other experts look at it as well.
I wish they would still do duels. That would get rid of a lot of crazy people in politics. Trump would certainly be very busy...
Yeah, funny. TSO can sell out a 10k seat venue, but Savatage, who's that? Some of the early TSO stuff is right off Dead Winter Dead and Hall of The Mountain King. After buying a couple of Avantasia albums, I like them more than TSO, but not original Savatage.
I don't understand the the trend these days to disprove conspiracy theories as a category. Obviously some conspiracy theories are true and most of them are false.

That said conspiracy theories are based around areas where a complete knowledge is not available. The description of the problem maybe correct, but the motivations of the parties involved wrong. To discredit an idea simply because it is a conspiracy theory is illogical.
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My crypto prof in uni commented on this. (This is from memory). Apparently, the number of rounds (16) seemed to have been chosen arbitrarily. Many years later, when attacks on Feistel(?) ciphers (of which DES is one) became public, it turned out that these attacks only worked up to .... 15 rounds! So the speculation was that the NSA knew about the attack, and chose to set the round number just out of reach...
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I don't like having obligations thrust upon me without my consent. A gift is an obligation: I need to find a use for it, or at least find somewhere out of the way to keep it until I can get rid of it.

The way I read your comment, you're trying to replace one obligation with another (find somewhere to give it away). You're telling me that this absolves the first obligation ("they'll understand"), and that I'll enjoy the second one ("it's a bonus to..."). I'm skeptical of both of those things: you don't know me and you don't know my family and friends. But even if you're right, I don't want the second obligation.

If I want to get out in the community, I can do that without waiting for someone to give me a gift I don't want.

(As it happens, in my case, I often like the gift more than I dislike the obligation. Maintaining an amazon wishlist is helpful for this. But not everyone is the same, and "spare me" is an unkind reaction to them.)
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No, it's absolutely not. It's a case of someone engaging in deep sexism under the cover of their religion, and it should trouble anyone with a daughter or sister or wife.

Whether that sexism is 'hatred' like you are holding out as a possibility, a patronizing/patriarchal "women should be protected", or a repressive "I don't want to sully a woman with my sexual thoughts about her", they are all deeply problematic beliefs for putting together a civil society that treats all people with equal rights.

It is doubly objectionable because he is putting the onus on the woman who does not share his perspective to solve his problem. He could have traveled using another conveyance, or purchased seats around him if he had preferred a different seating setup.
I have never heard the claim of 42 million before. I have investigated only to the point of looking in Wikipedia, but they claim closer to 11 million, which is down from the peak number. Where are you getting that from?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Uni...
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Usual scenario for a new small adwords advertiser is join, spend $500 for little noticeable gain, leave. Most of their traffic will have been irrelevant because of the broad match default.
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That's a distortion of what I meant.

So respecting natural rights and popular sovereignty are not the right way to serve people? Your perspective on this was the point of Professor Bloom's book, The Closing of the American Mind.

I don't personally care what ill-informed people who are victims of the American Historical Association think about classical liberalism and human freedom.

The FBI will not exist in the future, solely because it is a threat to human freedom and in a better world, such a powerful authoritarian organization won't be needed.
I saw exactly that a few hours ago.

http://i.imgur.com/7ymtPjd.png (Search for "united airlines" and the top link on the page is for "alaska airlines")
Last June, Emily Agin, the company’s director of real estate and workplace services, sent a note to San Francisco-based employees to cut out crude behavior, lest the company lose access to the building’s stairwells.

The email, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, read in part:

“It has been brought to our attention by building management and Security that the stairwells are being used inappropriately....Cigarettes, plastic cups filled with beer, and several used condoms were found in the stairwell. Yes, you read that right. Do not use the stairwells to smoke, drink, eat, or have sex. Please respect building and company policy and use common sense...”
It's okay, Mackenzie is definitely happy that you shared this.
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I've read that incorporation isn't worth the effort and cost if the business makes less than 60k, maybe this is a hidden cost in some of these situations.
These are fair comments, but the NYT also frequently has interactive, data-based visualizations that are among the best in class.
> In reality, the man is following his convictions to avoid touching women other than his wife.

I don't get how that works. Just because you sit next to someone doesn't mean tou have to fondle them, right?
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You have the freedom to practice your religion. You don't have the freedom to interfere with a planeload of other people.

> When passengers started to board, he said, an ultra-Orthodox man stood in the aisle, refusing to move and delaying the departure for 15 to 20 minutes until another passenger volunteered to switch seats.

That's wasting 75 hours because he didn't make his needs clear before hand, or didn't take the option of paying for an extra seat.
I thought the UK was rather well represented actually.
Does anyone use Amazon wish lists to solve this sort of issue? Do they even exist? Asking both out of interest of this thread's topic, and because some time back I consulted to a dot com startup where the product was to be a gift related site. Startup was executed very poorly so I left (and it shut down soon after). But the idea may have had merit.
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Airlines don't just let anybody in. They care about not losing planes too. I'd say they have best information to balance out convenience of travel with safety.