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1986,87 also saw a boom in quants, mainly engineers, even nobel prize laureates. They put them in one room, come up with ways to make money using quantitative models. There was a lot of buzz for decades until the collapse of LTCM.

Peter Thiel said MBAs flocking to certain tech as warning signs of a peak, likewise wall streets have had PHDs flocking as a measure of it's peak.

I fear that with a double whammy of low oil prices and low commodity prices, it will spark a long period of economic stagnation in the near future, as more jobs disappear in increasing numbers and social benefit falls and governments around the world struggle to monetize their aging populations.

The countries with young and increasing birth rate will feel the impact the worst, and we are already seeing such demographic in Europe packing up their bags and joining jihadi movements.
By that logic, politicians need to be the worst of all people; compulsively lying, corrupt, scheming, psychopathic, sociopathic paedophiles.

Oh wait....
I don't know if a lot of people set out thinking, "Oh I'm going to write a component, better do it in React [or Jquery]". They just use the tools they are familiar with to complete their own projects then long after the fact they decide to extract it out and open source it.

At least, that's how I operate.
https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671...

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

When $STEAMROOT was empty, "steam apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under /media."
From your link:

> The range that a two-way radio advertises is the range that the radio should get in "ideal" conditions. Ideal conditions are line of sight, such as from a mountaintop to a valley below -- no interference at all.

> So what type of range can you expect from your radio? Usually half a mile up to two miles
> The whole point of checks and balances is to get good results from imperfect people.

Granted, it uses an imperfect system of consensus to "do" this right now.
The fact that drugs are cheaper in Europe does not mean the market there is fairer or more efficient: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony. European governments have monopsonist power: through negotiating with manufacturers directly, they drive prices below the efficient level.
Ooo, lawfareblog.com is feeling the sting of logical dissections of Comey's "think of the victims!" attempt at diverting examination of the FBI's real motive for wanting all communication interceptable.

And in the last couple of weeks, the bureau has shown some serious wolf. - oh, please. Syed Farook is dead. The FBI didn't stop the killing from happening. A murder victim has a phone they haven't been able to crack.

This is the same kind of argument that the US justice system used about driver's licenses: "Driving is just a privilege, folks!" therefore we can lard up on criteria for that privilege: register for the draft, pay your child support, etc etc etc. It's a pretty good scheme: find or make something (driver's license or smartphone) pretty much mandatory for a normal life. Then, designate it as "a privilege" or say "caveat emptor" about it, all the while encouraging making that thing even more of a necessity.
One gets you fired when you lose money and the other gets you a speaking opportunities at universities where kids are discovering Gordon Gekko.
The kernel isn't in charge of mount options, that's the job of userspace (generally an init system). In any case, you would end up needing a way to mount it RW to accommodate legit uses of the non-broken EFI vars, at which point you're back where you started. This fix addresses it by having the kernel identify and protect only broken (or at least, non-standard) EFI vars.
That depends primarily on the programmer's experience, if you are used to loops but not recursion, then obviously the former is simpler than the latter, and vice versa. If you are equally familiar with both, they then thinking about it is equally difficult.
This will be interesting to watch, namely from their approach to maintaining and servicing the high pressure tanks. The DOT and ASME regulations and codes governing these are pretty strenuous, and along with the testing requirements (hydrostatic and visual) for high pressure tanks, the risks of a failure are massive, and only one is usually enough to tank a supplier from being used by most larger companies. Good luck to them though! Hopefully they'll sort out some of the issues with larger pressure tanks in regards to the maintenance and reliability - I'd love to see some composite 'smart' tanks with strain and stress measurement built into the pressure vessel, along with some form of electrical means for measuring tank integrity (corrosion action etc).

edit: they're hiring for a composite tank engineer so there's some hope yet - although I hope whomever they get understands the issues of composites in cyclical high pressure service - most of industry shies away from composites due to their failure mode: most don't fail 'gently' - a catastrophic failure is the usual planning mode around composites.
I am of a few minds about this. Firstly, I do not want to create a political environment where the government can tell people how their phones can be made (w.r.t. security, particularly). Thus, I want there to be clear limits on what federal agencies are able to do.

But secondly, I am skeptical about the way giant corporations wield their power against the government. Apple surely has its own priorities and goals, which are often at odds with mine and, separately, those of the government that represents me. While I have a small bit of influence on how my government operates I have even less influence on how such corporations operate, even though their decisions greatly affect my life. When their position re:privacy reflects mine, I am glad for it, but what happens when the issue is taxation or trade policy? My government might not be pursuing great solutions on these issues, but I don't really trust giant self-interested corporations to have a better solution.

Thirdly, though, I am personally concerned about how this debate cements Apple's power to lock down their devices even, in many ways against their users. The particulars of their security design seem to preclude users from writing their own operating systems for the phone or creating/using software that isn't directly sanctioned by the company. The same applies, to a great extent, to other hardware and software vendors (in particular, Google/Microsoft/Motorola/Samsung/HTC/etc.). I suspect this battle will end up giving us more locked-down devices in the name of security.
This data can't be real. It says Steve Jobs has not one, but three license plates.
No, they could have made the device actually secure without losing any ability to take a cut from app distribution. Later iOS versions do it (although it seems to be unsettled weather a backdoor is still possible in those versions). The iOS version in question has a very obvious backdoor, which Apple is understandably getting really defensive about and doesn't want that fact made obvious.
> If the manufacturer's ability to sign code is a backdoor, then so is absence of code signing.

In that universe, you can run any encryption software of you're choosing, and verify the software written by others.

Nobody has more privileges over the device that exceed those of the device's owners.

> You're assigning them the moral failure to perfectly secure the iPhone only because they have tried to secure it at all.

Legally and ethically, it doesn't matter.

Legally, cryptography is protected expression, and you can use cryptography to encrypt whatever you like -- including information that would otherwise be subject to a lawful search under the fourth amendment.

However, the fourth amendment doesn't have a crypto "participation award" clause; if you left a backdoor in place, the government can compel you to use it.

Ethically, if they chose to leave themselves this backdoor (and all the others), the system is weak. If it's not the FBI today, it's the NSA with a NSL tomorrow, or foreign espionage, or a disgruntled employee, or new corporate management.
Question to those who know the landscape of little microcontrollers well: if I wanted to build a small pet tracking chip (gps and cell, probably) that would work way out in the boonies (like middle-of-nowhere-Wyoming), where should I look? Am I right to be thinking gps+cell, or is this something where I could get away with just GPS (and somehow track where that GPS is pinging from)?

And would something like a tumble generator provide enough power?
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My take on it is, the computer industry, because they're capitalists like any industry, care about money. The engineers working there often care about the users of course, but the shareholders don't give a damn. They just want money. Ultimately, that greed determines the output of the engineers far more effectively than the ideals of the engineers themselves. (This could be generalised to basically any public company, and any of their employees. Employment is an amazing crowd control tool.)

To sell stuff, promise of usefulness is more important than genuine usefulness. We only care about the substance insofar as it reinforces the appeal (fortunately, the stuff gotta be genuinely useful, or the scam would be exposed). The industry could explain how computers work, but that would be far less effective than selling selling a magic wand.

So we end up with computers that hide their internals, so the user doesn't have to deal with them. Language based interface (command line) is put aside for the point & click "caveman interface" (Bret Victor showed us some amazing GUI, but rarely ever saw this since sketchpad). And we pile up abstractions on top of abstractions without stopping for a minute to consider the sheer madness of the distributed cognitive load implied by a personal computing system that requires over 10.000 thick books to write.
Pretty ironic since salaries for quants have gone down and getting replaced by outsourced overseas PHD graduate.
"If the current working directory of the process is being removed, that should be an allowed error."

Ok, I read that wrong a long while back, but "allowed error" is really odd. I guess I still side on an error is an error and it should not be allowed.
The first is for code and the latter is for prose (non-code writing such as this comment).
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Boom. Headshot.

Nice point.
Up in Fort Washington, so about 18 miles out of the city, is Feith Systems and Software Inc.

One of the only tech companies in the world certified to sell Records Management software to the DoD (http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/projects/rma/reg.aspx).

Probably doesn't belong on a list of hip startups and what-not, but notable I think.
I consider PlatformIO a must have at this point. It's made code deployment so much more easier and scriptable, I love it.
Generics could still be made on the old formula, that's not the issue.

The issue is that generics have thinner margins due to unrestrained competition, not sufficient for a substantial marketing campaign against a well-funded adversary. Especially if said adversary has fear-mongering on their side.

There are other situations where too much competition drives margins so thin as to make all participants starve, most notable being the Apple's App Store.
in the sense that they've dropped out of academia
I agree with that.
But, as a European, I also agree with the parent comment.
It is weird in the sense that we could never think of something like that, things such as a "doughnut hole" where a few months a year you don't have an insurance.

I currently live and work in the US, love it, love the country. I have the chance to have a great plan thanks to my company. But i'm not sure how much more I can keep tacitly approving this system.
It's nice to think that the universe is like the comics where all it takes is will power to bend Nature to your desires, but the reality is that if a job doesn't pay at the level of the cost of living that job is pretty much crap. I don't see how you and others like you assert this is a healthy situation for anyone. Especially when I've seen similar situations close to home in Kansas where you're lucky to get paid 10/hr (no benefits). Mind you, the cost of living is much lower than the national average but still 10/hr doesn't go very far in Kansas, especially if you have kids to feed. So, I'm not sympathetic to your "lift yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality when there's not even bootstraps to lift yourself up by. Maybe you can enlighten us poor dumb folk from Kansas how to do this feat sans bootstraps. I'm all ears.
Oh I'm well aware of that. I'm also very aware that:

0. There's no direct vote on laws. This alone makes the US not a democracy, but a republic at best.
1. There's no direct vote for president and vice president.
2. Elected representatives or the president do not care one iota about their constituents between the elections. If you think they do, explain things like TPP
3. Two party system merely creates the illusion of choice. Both parties are right wing, with democrats being slightly more centrist.
FYI - I am behind a corporate firewall and this article got blocked
How do you define "minor"? These insulins have dramatically different serum half lives (for example there are fast acting ones for postprandial administration, others that are optimized for pumps, etc) and so there is a clear pharmacological difference. Moreover, discovering these variants is nontrivial, as each insulin must be checked against igf-1 receptor cross reactivity, lest it become teratogenic. Making matters worse, the exact binding of insulin and igf-1 to their receptors is not known making this endeavor especially difficult to predict.

What is not clear is whether these modifications are an over optimization over "the original". For each patient the cost/benefit calculation will be different and based on many variables.
Hey, Kelvin from Atlassian here. We are pretty flat out ourselves improving both Bitbucket Cloud and Server. I can see how SSO isn't terribly important if Bitbucket is the only one of our products you use, but it's critical for our customers who co-own Bitbucket and JIRA (or Confluence, or HipChat, etc.). It was a fairly massive undertaking: retrofitting auth across our portfolio of products took some serious engineering effort. But we've still managed to squeeze a few fairly large releases out recently shipping features such as smart mirroring, Git LFS, and clustering - and have some other great stuff in the pipeline.
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I was asked to look into what the options are for building some kind of customer service chat bot for Facebook pages. Basically, the idea would be to take incoming requests directed in chat at a page or account, and fan them out to customer service reps that are active on some other IM platform.

1.) It looks like the XMPP integration that Facebook used to have is dead and buried at this point (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat)

2.) I found this NodeJS package (https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api), which looks like it runs a headless browser to sign into Facebook and spoof Facebook into thinking that you are hitting them via their internal AJAX endpoints. This feels very fragile, but apparently it does work.

3.) I've seen some announcements that there is some sort of Messenger SDK which looks like it is currently rolled out to some select partners only right now. http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/facebook-messenger-bots/. I haven't seen any indications of when this would be generally available, or exactly what would be possible using it.

At the present moment, #2 seems like it is the only viable possibility, barring widespread availability of #3. Although that seems very much an ad-hoc, duct-tape and baling wire type of solution, in no way officially supported, and totally dependent on Facebook not making changes to their internal APIs...

Any better ideas?
Yeah, half my friends from university graduated straight out of their Physics degree and went straight into finance. Didn't even bother with the Masters or PhD.
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Wow. Didn't think it could be real, but sure enough my girlfriend's old plate is listed. That's pretty disgusting, SFMTA.

Edit

We just went through the process to claim the $125 through "surveygizmo.com". At the end it says "A customer service representative will review your information and respond to you within 21 days. If a refund is identified a check will be processed within 30 days"
Every time there's a health care post, people need to chime in with the comment, "this is really fucked up in the USA, they kill for profit."
This is a case of a leaky abstraction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction). The "everything is a file" philosophy is the real problem here.

Specifically, the way a mental model of a hierarchy is broken by mounting a higher-order ressource (UEFI variables) as a subordinate of a file system that is itself a subordinate of the OS.

UEFI vars are just hardware resources. Mapping them as a file system object is just unnatural and, yes, stupid.

Trying to use a permission model ("only root can do it") overlooks the real problem: The user do not expect higher order objects to be mapped as subordinates of the file system.

When you delete from the file system, you expect objects to be deleted from the disk - not UEFI variables to be altered or deleted! And because the user does not expect such behavior, there's a good chance she/he will override warnings and go ahead with the operation expecting only file system objects to be affected.

This is "everything is a file" taken a bridge too far.
There's nothing "dubiously long" about the patents here. Drug companies are lucky to get 10 years out of a patent (in a field where things change far more slowly than people in the tech industry are used to). Injectable insulin is long out of patent. What's patented are the iterative improvements to manufactured insulin drug manufacturers have been developing over decades: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/841669.
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> There is a very clear and obvious distinction between the plant and animal kingdoms.

Sure, but whether the things which make up that distinction have particular ethical significance is a different question. And I have yet to see any definition of sentience for which both of the following are true:

(1) It does, in fact, apply to all animals and no plants, and

(2) Most people would agree that it has ethical significance.

In fact, I haven't seen any definition of sentience for which even (1) alone is true.

> Like I said, even if it were true that plants feel pain the same as animals, one would still be compelled to go vegan, since animals "kill" more plants than people do by eating them directly.

That seems to a apply a utilitarian standard of ethics, not the categorical one which is usually in arguing that veganism is an ethical compulsion (under the categorical ethics usually applied to argue for veganism, recognizing plants as sentient would make eating either inexcusable, even if it were a survival necessity.)

Once you accept that its a utilitarian matter, determining that something is ethically demanded requires agreeing to a particular ethical calculus -- a method of aggregating utilities and disutilities experienced by different participants. And there's an infinite number of possible functions that can be used, and they can support any possible conclusion.
How much value would be realized if this massive and complex problem is fully addressed in the Bay Area (and the solver properly compensated)? $100B?

The scale of it all is huge, but so is mining asteroids.
Is there a printable version? Would be far more handy on my wall/desk where I can reference it quickly.
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> It's a very bad idea to wait until after the precedent is set to try to ensure that this does not become routine.

Well then why don't we start making this case about abortion rights precedent, for how applicable it is? This has nothing to do with the general practice of making devices backdoorable in general. It is a straight forward search of a device with a warrant.

Apple failed to secure the 5c, but they don't have to fail to secure others. I have every reason to believe they could have made the phone refuse to install updates without a user password, which would make this backdoor impossible.
This seems to be the wall street equivalent of transitioning sysadmin roles into devops.
But... but it's in HD now! I think I'll wait for Asacol 4k.
Yeah for the most part I believe there is a good amount of consensus around that.
AFAIK, the only sources on this matter are the white papers that Apple has produced. You can't even attempt to update the firmware without having Apple's signing keys.
That is assuming rational self interested actors and equal cost/benefit. We don't need to look very hard to find examples of irrationality and imbalanced incentives. Also, how many times have you been exhorted to act against your own interests and think of the children? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I gather from the slip-up near the end of the Microsoft talk that React Native for Windows isn't here yet, but it's coming. But I'm guessing that will only be for Universal Windows Platform (i.e. mobile and tablet-style) apps, not Win32 desktop applications.
I suspect it's mostly preference & less keystrokes (single tick requires no shift key). All the answers on stack overflow seem to indicated there's not really a difference:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3149192/difference-betwee...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242813/when-to-use-double...
I'm not exactly sure why, but that seems to be the case. It might be due to the ubiquitous AirBnB JS Style guide (https://github.com/airbnb/javascript) which enforces single quotes. It's the style guide we use on my team.
So one author is a former NSA employee and the other is affiliated with the arch-conservative Hoover Institution...moving on.
People don't hate systemd because it has bugs. People hate it because it's clear that it thinks it owns your system and that its manifest destiny is to contain all software that exists.
Yeah it's a rule in a lot of style guides. Google for one example: https://google.github.io/styleguide/javascriptguide.xml?show...
I love that book, covers the whole chain of tools including samplers, sequencers, arpeggiators, DAWs etc. Also Shepard "Refining Sound" steps people thru oscillators, LFO's, envelope, filter/resonance and after effects. Great books.

Some other classic books are Welsh's Cookbooks (i think there are 2), and those by Miller Puckette (the guy who wrote Max), Martin Russ, Perry Cook, Allen Strange, Mark Jenkins, Mark Vail. I'm forgetting a few.

Or you could just buy a mopho/tetra, microbrute, bass station2, MS20 mini, ms2000, minilogue, sh201, jp8000 etc and start watching youtube tuts.
I don't know what you mean... but it's pseudocode for what the FBI asked Apple to do. It's a backdoor that only applies to a single device. Since it must by signed by Apple, it can't itself be backdoored by the FBI or a hacker or anyone else without Apple's consent.

Edit: oh, I see what you mean. The single =. But it's pseudocode. That happens to look a lot like Javascript with a bug :)
> It is a straight forward search of a device with a warrant.

No, its not.

If it were a straightforward search of a device with a warrant, then -- the FBI having the device and the warrant -- no third party would have to be compelled to be involved.

That they are trying to compel Apple to write special software to enable what the FBI wants very clearly demonstrates that it is nothing like a straightforward search of a device with a warrant.
Yep. I got my work to purchase EE license for Gitlab because it's miles ahead of Bitbucket Server.