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I'm much the same, but it drives my wife insane. "I work with a girl..." "WOMAN", "... yeah... that <insert some awesome thing here>..."
> But failing a marijuana drug test says absolutely nothing about weather you are under the influence of marijuana.

I'm not so sure of that. Failing a marijuana drug test means that there's a measurable amount of THC in your body.
We load a small thumbnail; it's the extra memory allocated to strings that was the main factor that helped when we reduced the # of comments sent down.
Yep, these were all A/B tested and the results were statistically significant.
We have a follow up to that post coming soon, stay tuned.
Most Chinese girls are beautiful... The West will gladly accept them.
I'm sort of reminded of a comment by an ex who grew up in a poor neighborhood. The cops learn how to fudge their reports so they get past the judges. Replace court judges with peer reviewers.
What do you think the logy in analogy stands for?
It was. Then suboxone, methadone, etc. I can't wait to see the latest fad.
>It's kind of like a bootstrapping process, or perhaps boozestrapping..

You are describing the ballmer peak (https://xkcd.com/323/). It's a joke, but some truth rings to it. Developing while dealing with anxiety can be crippling so a small amount of booze helps lubricate things.

That said it's easy to get into the habit of drinking very slowly, so never getting intoxicated, but the drinks still add up over the hours. You end up putting down a lot of excess calories not to mention the negative impact on your overall health if you drink 5-6 drinks over the course of a 10 hour coding session over and over again.

I've since found exercise works just as well and is much more sustainable. Something for you to keep in mind perhaps.
Why would we need even more people?

People will not get managed much better unless they are scarce.
People can get high with edibles, vape pens, body rubs, many ways. Someone you work with could be getting high right now, and you wouldn't know it - they were quitting smoking and vaping, or they got some chocolates (but won't share).

You can't tell, and 50% of the sales at Tucson dispensaries are edibles and concentrates.

So you will have to judge on the work, not if they are giggling. You should be more concerned if your surgeon is ethically compromised so that he would operate impaired by anything - no sleep, alcohol, weed, prescription pain killers. Same for anyone in a life/death job.

I own a factory, and use it for pain management. When I am using it (that day) I won't drive the forklift or use any machinery. I could hurt myself or others by being lost in a weed fog. Instead I do emails, meetings, R&D, etc. while sitting at my desk. Nothing that would kill me if I stopped paying attention for a minute. Forklifts and CNC machinery can definitely kill you if you aren't paying attention.

Your weed smoking armorer would probably not be using when working on weapons. His life could be at stake for a loss of concentration, and he knows it. It's smart to avoid weed induced problems, no altruism needed. Just cover your own ass.
And how many of those people would take their car there after they switch jobs? I'm betting very few. Also things like tires and oil changes are different than major repairs.
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Supply and demand also relates to human labor, migration, and mating. Nothing really new here, but hat off to the author for having the guts to point out the ridiculousness of educating away unemployment. The issue is there are too many people and no positions for them to fill. Automation will only make the problem worse. One can hardly blame the migrants for making the self interested choice to move, just as one can hardly blame citizens of the developed world for wanting to keep them out.
Demo does nothing for me. I'm dubious how repeatable or unique those results are.
The problem with performance optimization is that if you obsess with optimizing code well outside the critical path, it's often wasted effort drowned out by larger latencies.

If this code was part of a web application, the I/O bound latency of backend/persistence calls will almost always outweigh any CPU bound processing time.

So they may have made this method call 14x faster, but how much latency were they really shaving off their average request? I would be surprised if it were more than a rounding error.
Where does this idea of glorifying not spending on marketing come from? I think it involves a fundamental misalignment of the point of building a business.

I view a business as an investment vehicle and marketing is how you turn over that investment. I would be much more impressed with a business that can consistently arbitrage advertising into profits at scale.

In reality anything that touches a prospect, customer or user is marketing!

A better question is... how much further would duolingo be if they invested in advertising and focused more on marketing? Would they have billions of users instead of 110M ?

Further, how many of those 110M are like me that downloaded the app, used it once or twice and than never opened it again? How many users like me would use it much more if they did invest in communicating its value to me at ideal times. (i.e. when it sees I am visiting Cabo, or Cancun, two trips I took with the app on my phone and never touched it?)
There is a diesel generator company that makes semi-truck sized mobile generators for backup purposes/remote locations. The difference between the cheap vs expensive variants is around $250,000. They only difference is the cheap one has software to limit the output. Now if you could hack that you could save yourself quarter of a mil.
> But the real problem is just: too many people, period

Why do you say that? Which resource is insufficient to support the current global population? (or even several times that)?

The problem is a lack of balance / poor management
Only? IRC is pretty rockin'.
It's a "Command-and-Control" server (C&C or C2).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_control_%28malware...

I just learned that too. For me, C&C reminds me "Command and Conqueer" (the game).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer
People, kingdoms and nations went to war for many reasons, from oppression, to "marriages" among royals, land grabs, consolidation of power in order to have more political stability (fewer incursions from usurpers of the kingdom), affronts, insanity, etc. but I can't imagine many were due to "we have too many restless men" we need to concoct war, risk losing war and our people, because we have too many young men and we need culling because....

A standing army plus reserves and the population you could call up to fight is what kept enemies from wanting to invade.
I wish that were as simple and easy an answer as you blithely make it sound.
> It's not enough

It's very hard to take you seriously if you make a bald assertion like that with no supporting arguments. It doesn't help that it's an assertion that, to me, seems absurd on its face. Seriously, how can anyone think there are not enough people? I would really like to know.
I used to be in the camp of "there's not too many people" but then I look around and see how polluted and crowded it is all over the world and imagine 40 years later when there are 9 billion people contributing to the existing pollution and heavy burden on the infrastructure and environment. There are too many people.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_260.htm
> Nonsense. You need tactile feedback while driving. You will not be using the center console while driving. You will not even be looking at it. All of the stuff you need while driving is tactile.

Right, because nobody has ever adjusted the air conditioning or radio while driving...
People will not get managed much better unless they are better educated.

FTFY.
Sure, but lock-in is a means of reducing market competition and thereby enabling rent extraction. Lock-in practices are an example of rent-seeking behavior.
More education equals less children. It is more and more acceptable in American society to not have any children in a heterosexual couple. I don't have stats on hand but somewhere I read that 1/3 of US marriages are childless.
From the article: To check whether you have the malware installed:

Using “Activity Monitor” preinstalled in OS X, check whether any process named “kernel_service” is running. If so, double check the process, choose the “Open Files and Ports” and check whether there is a file name like “/Users//Library/kernel_service”. If so, the process is KeRanger’s main process. We suggest terminating it with “Quit -> Force Quit”
I doubt Apple keeps it out for "Legal" aspects. iTunes sales seems more likely.
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I didn't read the article that way, and it resonated with my sentiments. I tried using docker a while ago, and I never grokked the shipping container analogy -- why it's so much better than some VM's and deployment scripts. It's like it's some complicated layer over that.

I think in the end Solomon Hykes is a talented marketeer, but the great majority of teams/companies are satisfied enough with virtual machines seems to be how it's going to pan out.
Thanks, I just realized it after reading Claud Xiao and Jin Chen's analysis, too. Apparently, this ransomware uses Tor to hide its origin.

Analysis: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-...
Most tests measure THC metabolites, not THC, and in a heavy user these fat solvable compounds can persist for almost a year after cessation.

They are not "under the influence" for those 10 months.
Seems to just be using the device in its intended manner, but perhaps it wasn't "intended" for random people on the internet to be accessing an open telnet service on the default port on a system connected directly to the public internet.
Crossing streets on red light is illegal too. Enjoy it.
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If you actually study the history, the single most common reason that people go to war is due to a lack of resources of some sort. Food or something critical to the economy or whatever. (Edit: There are a MILLION explanations, but scarcity of resources or insufficient resources of some sort is almost always the actual root cause.)

So, again: "There aren't enough resources" is essentially what people mean when they say "There are too many people." Sending people to war -- win, lose or draw -- tends to get the number of people down and may have long term impact on keeping the number down by removing the potential for those who died young on the field of battle to reproduce at all.

You can claim all you like that "BUT, THAT isn't THE REASON we go to war" and, you know, it just makes me think you have no understanding of history. It doesn't convince me you are right.
That's a combination of those same gaps and gaps in the transformer laminations where the laminates don't line up perfectly around the edges (they flutter ever so slightly) and inside the stack if a sheet isn't pressed perfectly flat or the lacquer isn't applied evenly.
I prefer to have control over who lives in my residence (that's the same now as an "owner" (mortgagee) as when I was a tenant/renter). I assume most other people also desire that.

In order to accomplish that, we have a notion of property rights (the right to exclusive control of [including the right to exclude others from] the housing unit) and we allow those rights to be permanently or temporarily traded to others in exchange for money or other consideration.

Unless you don't care who lives in your housing unit from day to day, there's got to be some kind of property right in real property and a derivative right-to-exclude. If you want to call the right I have to my own house a monopoly on that particular property, you're technically right (the best kind of right). By that same argument, the corner gas station has a monopoly on selling the specific gasoline contained in its underground tank.

Land is indeed finite. That's one of the properties that makes it valuable.
Here's one example. I like listening to comedy podcasts from Ear Wolf. I heard an ad for Leesa Mattresses, and happen to need a mattress.

After buying mattresses in the past, one of the major pain points for me is actually physically hauling the mattress and carrying it up steps to an apartment.

Leesa sells mattresses that are compressed in a special way into a box the size of a mini-fridge, and can be relatively easily carried up steps by a single person.

This shipping detail alone makes me much more interested in their product, and I could potentially compromise some on price or quality to get that unique shipping service.

I didn't even know any brand did this, and basically had completely put it out of my mind. Some time ago I wrote it off as something I couldn't find, and the activation energy to get my brain to generate a desire to actively search for this feature became really high. Then, sometime later, Leesa came into existence as a seller.

My activation energy makes it unlikely that I will choose to search for this feature (I searched before, came to the belief it didn't exist, and don't want to deal with the search cost again under this belief).

Thankfully, an ad was pushed into my ears as I listened to a podcast I like, which alerted me to a new company with a new service that I did want, but for which it is extremely unlikely I would have thought to search on my own.

Even in the case when I did remember that I want that feature, overcome my belief that no one provides it, sluggishly open a new tab in Chrome, and type out that search, and I find Leesa via a Google search, that's really no different than an ad. It's a function of how many others heard about Leesa (originally through means other than themselves just searching directly) and successfully interacted with them, and the effect of increased reputation as a seller. However, it does rely on me sort of exogenously coming up with the cognitive wherewithal to do the search, rather to be passively advertised at. There's a ton of stuff where this trade-off between relying on manually searching vs. being passively advertised at is in favor of experiencing passive ads.

I was very happy to be passively advertised at in that case. Whatever research Leesa did to determine that audio ads through that podcast had a good chance of successfully reaching people who might want that service, it was good work on their part, and made a certain tiny corner of the economy slightly more efficient in a certain way.

There is every potential that online ads could be used the same way, and it seems efficient to me to place the research cost burden of how to best place ads onto the advertisers, not onto consumers who then have to overcome activation barriers to engage in searches.
You may not be so sure of that, but I am.

A "marijuana drug test" usually means testing for THC metabolites, not active THC in your blood stream. These can show up on test results a month after you ingested anything.

Imagine if tomorrow you were called in and they did a test to see if you had a single beer/glass of wine in the last month. Would you pass that test? If you would, great.. I'm willing to put down money that most people wouldn't.
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I don't follow, what does it matter for the "distribution model" if the software is open- or closed-source? The problem with SourceForge were its malware-riddled installers, how would it be any better if the downloads were proprietary software?
Cultures that prefer boys over girls deserve highest levels of contempt.
I get that this is proprietary - but I do like the idea of font styles being driven by global user settings at the browser or system level. Would love to see more of this in the future.

I put this together mostly so that I could build some simple iOS prototypes with html and css - not something I'd use for the average web app project.
> Right, because nobody has ever adjusted the air conditioning or radio while driving...

There's a button on the wheel you press for voice commands ...
Of course it does. But you get to keep your data for yourself.
It's not "easy" given cultural norms in some places, but giving women access to tools for reproductive control is a start. Giving them power to control the situation where they are not at the mercy of their family/husbands results in fewer children per woman.
Someone needs to watch "The Death of Agile"[1] by one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGGRAhes2k
Are you using the latest putty release? Some scary looking security fixes in the last few versions. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht... and particularly http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/v...
> Why do you say that? Which resource is insufficient to support the current global population? (or even several times that)?

At the moment the limiting factor looks like it's going to be carbon emissions. But the real problem is that by the time we know for sure what the limiting factor is going to turn out to be it will be too late to do anything about it.

> The problem is a lack of balance / poor management

Balance? What kind of balance are you talking about? And what exactly would "better management" look like?
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Population of Russia is very educated but one of the worst mismanaged, for counterexample.
Huh? You mean 'we got nothing for people to do'?

People are fine - assholes insisting everyone has to pretend like they're working even though we have enough resources to go around, maybe they're the problem.

Here's a comedy bit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibb7RjFDGN0
It is slightly more subtle than that. Disease tends to kill children (and the elderly) preferentially. People who survive childhood are relatively resilient. In countries with poor healthcare, there may be high birthrates along with high child mortality rates with the net effect being low population growth rates and a fairly broad age distribution. However, once developing countries start to make gains in health, the child mortality rate starts to fall. Birthrates, on the other hand, start to fall with education (i.e. one generation later). The effect is a boom in the number of people surviving to adulthood and a large bulge in the youth population that is being seen in many developing countries.
Looking at this from the other end, the problem is, as long as clients of the window server aren't isolated against each other, any other kind of sandboxing (such as restricting file system access) is pointless: a compromised application can just synthesize input events for some other application to give it what it wants.

The next step towards real sandboxing is applications with cgroups and namespaces (quite similar to FreeBSD jails), as in xdg-app.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps/Sandbox
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The server isn't on EC2, it's hosted on Tor. The malware uses an HTTP-to-TOR gateway service (onion.nu and onion.link) to pull down the encryption key and README file from one of three different hidden services. In theory you could try to get the gateways to block the connections, but I'm not sure they're likely to be cooperative.
Master of Magic was about the best and I think they used the Civ engine as well.

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

Many attempts to remake the game failed.

It is like the Bard's Tale series, hard to remake. The Bard's Tale remake was not as good as the original series for MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple //gs, Atari ST etc.
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Stepping out to a clearer source, Wikipedia[1] summarizes data from the World Bank and the CIA. I think the numbers that best reflect current China suggest a 12% (CIA at birth), 17% (CIA 15 or younger) or 19% (WB at birth) disparity depending on the estimate. Choose any of those and you've got a pretty huge disparity. I think that the article may have been looking only at a cohort, not the entire population, so taking the ratio of the quoted number of missing men against the entire Chinese population may be misleading.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio
What is this list and what does it prove?
try uploading the file to virustotal, avira etc. Windows Defender should in the alert have a button to report to microsoft.
I frankly never believed Jobs's story about "auditing" the typography class.

Back in the day, there was a lot of worry in the computer industry about getting sued for copying "look and feel" of software developed elsewhere. I think Jobs story about being all about fonts was conveniently "remembered" after he visited Xerox PARC and determined that Apple should build on the WYSIWYG work PARC had done.

Jobs was a copier (and perversely concerned with being copied, two personality traits that certainly go together in the Freudian sense) and it fits much better that he would see font choices at PARC and suddenly start talking about this course he mysteriously took with no records being kept of it. In his own words from the Reed.edu article, "But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac.” ha ha ha yeah right. Too bad the dog ate his original copies.

Props to Rev. Palladino though, sounds like a cool guy even if Steve never took his class.
Yeah, that makes sense. Build servers are one of the weakest links in distributing software. That's why this exists and I'm glad it's making progress:

https://reproducible-builds.org

And even if you sign updates, the key management for doing that is usually centralized, which can be bad:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/most-software-alread...
> Did you tell your kids about Santa Claus?

I don't have kids, and if I ever do, I'll tell them Santa is a fun legend people like to play along with, but that it isn't real.

> Did your parents tell you about Santa Claus?

Yes, but by the time my sister was born, they had changed their tune to what I describe above, and she didn't seem to suffer any development ill effects, still enjoyed Christmas, etc.
This isn't quite correct; it should go

> Then we go to war in order to make sure some other country can't create artificial scarcity of resources, which would reduce the number of people we have against our wishes

It is about preventing someone else from cutting off your supply lines.
The title of the article belies its content. Several examples of marketing are cited:

- They identified a market: people who want to learn a language as quickly, easily and inexpensively as possible.

- They analyzed and understood the needs and desires of the target market. Presumably they further segmented the market.

- They created an offering that met the needs of the segment(s) they were going after.

- They deliberately positioned their product so as to attract as large a share of the addressable audience as possible .

- They increased awareness and trial of their product via word-of-mouth, an age-old marketing communications tactic.

This is marketing.
I'd hazard a guess that unless the vendor can provide over-the-air updates and every system which plugs into these telematics units can also be easily upgradeable to incorporate the new added auth functionality, it might be better just to make everyone aware of the issue?

Ultimately this blog post doesn't describe any rocket science at all: anyone wanting to cause trouble on the internet is well aware of Shodanning for exposed ICS systems that fail to even implement authentication.
Given the Aaron Swartz case, I would say yes.
What it comes down to is this. Spend money on marketing, or don't, but always focus on ROI.