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It might say that, but to be honest I had no difficulties installing on my box with 32 MB RAM. I didn't even have to do anything special; I just followed the normal installation procedure. It's not blazing fast by any means, but it does boot and it does work :)
So, how is different from the other two posts sent like... 5 years ago?!

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You can use version control as a domain-specific backup tool. I think it's irrational to not use it if unless you're writing some quick toy code.
But there are families who clearly want revenge as well.

Revenge or resiprocity seems a pretty core part of the human condition.
> So let's assume you now have inflation.

You're basically arguing that it's raising the minimum wage that increases inflation, when this is patently not true. Inflation is almost always present, regardless of modifications to minimum wage.
Pretty sure that this was named and inspired by Robin Dunbar, of Dunbar's Number fame - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Dunbar
Git branches have changed the way I code. Even if I didn't have to maintain stable and development branches of my apps the other benefits are well worth the very small overhead of managing code in Git.

And of course with even one other developer working on the same code base I'd say VC is practically mandatory.
When I read your first comment I thought you meant 30 minutes pay day (average) across the whole team (which seems reasonable) but now it seems you do mean 30 minutes pay day (average) per employee (which seems a lot). Is the second actually correct?
I am aware of that, but I find it interesting that being for or against basic income is not an ideological constant to the same extent as many other policies.
Seems like another one of their abstract experiment things. I was taken to a sort of chat room where I had three buttons which all did nothing. Umm, fascinating.
GIRL.SOFTWARE/LETTER
huh. that's weird. it seems like all the customers throw in their money every month. some percentage of that must go to overhead and profits, the rest would go into a pool for medical care. Each month the insurance company would pay whatever is required for specific obligations, with any extra carried over to the next month. From time to time there would be random fluctuations, unusually high numbers of heart attacks for example, and they'd run at a loss. I thought insurance companies work just like casinos with harder to estimate probabilities of having to pay out. The thing that's really cool about being an insurance company, you don't have perfectly clear obligations. With a casino, they land on double zero at roulette, the casino has to pay. With insurance, the insurance company gets to decide the worthiness of paying out. Oh yes, this person has cancer, but the chance of survival is quite low, so we're not paying for chemo.

But, clearly, i'm mistaken. Could you elaborate on how the insurance business really works?
Way back in highschool when I was a part of the ROM hacking scene, I thought it might be possible to make an emulator that can automatically reverse engineer enough of the ROM to start building a level editor. I didn't think it was possible for it to always work - NES level compression formats are just too weird for that - but I thought you could do it for at least some of the more sane formats.

The work here on automatically figuring out what RAM belongs to the character makes me think it's possible again. Cool stuff.
Checkerboard: 0x24 cycles.
http://imgur.com/C1UeEdn
(EDIT: 0x16, see below)

My key insight was twofold:

1. If you start every thread at 0x00 and make the first N commands "THR @00", you get 2^(n+1)-1 threads running by the time your first thread exits the chain of THR commands.

2. You can use a single array MOV instruction to set a range of program counters, effectively causing every thread to jump to a set position.

So in the first 5 cycles I start 31 threads, then my main thread drops into a loop where all it does is set every thread's position (including its own) to a start point every 2 cycles. Every single thread is now a 2-cycle loop with no JMP cycle spent to return to the start each time.
Then I simply make 16 loops of:

PIX counter color
ADD counter 1 counter

with color being one of two memory positions, which the main thread swaps out each loop. I initialize counter such that each thread is doing its own row of the output (0, 10, 20, etc). The leftover threads I don't actually want (but it's hard to fine tune the thread count, so I left them in), so they share the first thread's loop. The repeated actions are effectively a noop.

Note that, due to space constraints, I use the unused 4th byte of each PIX instruction as the counter for that loop.

Doing this got me to 0x24 cycles. I shaved a further 4 cycles by using the leftover space to add 4 more loops. These ones run vertically and operate on the last two columns (two threads doing one column together). By the time the row-moving threads have reached the 2nd last column, the column-moving threads have finished the last two columns, and so the program is finished 4 cycles earlier.

I think I could get another 2-cycle saving if I fine-tuned the number of threads started, compressed everything down again and got another two column-moving threads.

The bigger improvement is converting the whole thing to 1-cycle loops instead of 2-cycle, and having half the loops incrementing the counters and the other half doing PIX instructions. This might just be possible in the available space if I've run the numbers correctly, and would result in a total time of 0x14.

EDIT: Did the latter: http://imgur.com/zD1Gw5H

It came out to 0x16, as I failed to account for the extra time to spin up more threads.
It might cost you personally, but not always. Sometimes you have to drive crazy things to the point of lunacy that is their logical conclusion, to make a point.

The case of encryption heavily underlines the nature of information itself which also lends to the nature of intellectual property, the idea where bits have colors. This is all uncharted territory so far for the general society. (The laws of information are crystal clear as interpreted by the hacker mindset but it's not at all crystal clear whether the society at large ever wants to accept the hacker mindset.)

Demanding encryption keys is followed by dozens of logical consequences that are anything but obvious for the uninitiated. Several have been mentioned in this discussion already. For example, how to prove random data isn't an encrypted blob? What are the liabilities of carrying random data? What if you did encrypt it but with a throwaway password which you obviously don't remember? How can bits possibly be so dangerous to warrant jailtime for you unless you choose to reveal them? But if you store the same information in your head, you're not required to reveal it. Then how is storing the passphrase in your head any different from storing all the information in your head, albeit easier?
> This is the same exact argument against buying renter's insurance...

Eh? I don't buy RI because

* I can cover the replacement cost of everything covered by pretty much every RI policy I've ever seen

* Over the decades I've been living on my own, I've never had a situation where any RI policy would kick in

Therefore, RI policies are nothing but money set ablaze for me. I'd rather make use of that money.
Next? No. Eventually? Maybe. We don't generally still say eow, þu, þe, ge, etc.
Deception, Adaption and Innovation to change minds and win wars
Here's another instance of this verbaige on CNN in 1993: https://youtu.be/4aIkMwUeL_Q ... And another: https://youtu.be/gQwTOizZcAs. This talk show even commented on this exact difference listening to their own archives:
https://youtu.be/QmKCmuIT1C0I
And another https://youtu.be/UlJku_CSyNg

I provided 6 separate instances spanning 2 countries...

This is not false information. There's 5 videos and a photo from a book.

I have two more books with this usage if people want and I can dig up articles from newspapers too if needed.

In fact, there was a drive in late 93, early 94 to actively discourage this variation from being used. I can also dig that up.
More recent work by a portion of that same team, with much more information: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4626

GRACE has opened up this whole area over the last few years. It's very hard to monitor groundwater, even well data is not that usable for various reasons.
CfMD Software Escrow
Show HN: I made a tool to turn pull requests into real time presentation
reddit uses AWS iirc
We should focus our attention on taking humans out of the food industry altogether. Here's a model I've been thinking about that should make it possible to create a free food society:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/KfGtn.png

Not just free as in no cost, but free also as in liberty. Imagine not having to work for food. Food weaves a recursive economic penalty into all facets of society.

What's especially amazing about 3D vertical ocean farms is that they can provide nutrient inputs to the model illustrated above. Harvested, transported, and delivered automatically, with power from renewable resources.

If people want to grow their own food, that's fine. The point is, we have the technological prowess to create a society where we needn't spend time nor money on food out of necessity. Trading our productive years for food is a huge driving force behind capitalism, which has not proven itself to be the most environmentally-friendly regime (in terms of greenhouse gas emissions).

Think about this.

By the time viable nuclear fusion comes along (50 years?), we could have a self-maintaining, open source, free food infrastructure to solve one problem common to every living human: hunger. The energy consumption required to power the infrastructure could be switched from limited renewable sources to fusion sources to help support the global population (with power left over for some growth).

See also:

http://www.ted.com/talks/caleb_harper_this_computer_will_gro...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/01/japanese-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_mining
A few startups (and non-startup projects like http://www.tampon.club/) have been submitted, such as Looncup (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/700989404/looncup-the-w...) and subscription-based delivery of tampons and pads.

"Bloom has a lot of competition in the tampon subscription space. In September, Juniper launched for the high-end market with a discreet box of tampons, pads, pantyliners, and "indulgences" such as chocolate and tea for $28 a month. Then in November, My Cotton Bunny launched with a box of tampons or pads and a surprise gift for $13.75 a month. Le Parcel launched in January, offering a box of tampons, pads, chocolate, and a gift for $15 a month. There’s also Sent Her Way in California, Perfect Timing in New Jersey, and Trinkets in the UK."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/4/4035188/tampon-subscription...
> I don't know why NASA is tracking these levels in India, but [...]

Well, if your low-flying and expensive satellite has to pass over the rest of the world anyway, you might as well record what it sees.

Quoth the article:

> With previous research in the United States having proven the accuracy of GRACE in detecting groundwater [researchers] were looking for a region where they could apply the new technique.
The reason is very simple. The best way to learn about an event is to observe an event. One of the most important thing that NASA does is collect data. That data can then be analyzed in the future to mitigate or prevent future problems.
C64js, the Commodore 64 emulator (PETSCII) written in JavaScript
Cookies set by the Safe Browsing servers to
protect the service from abuse are stored in
a separate cookie jar so that they are not
mixed with regular browsing/session cookies.

And how are these cookies cleared? Seems like as soon as some sort of ID appears in one of these cookies, XKeyScore will track your every (physical) move with it even if you take care to delete all your regular cookies and don't browse the same sites on different networks. Why does this protocol even allow for cookies to be set at all in the first place?
My point though is that every non-trivial computation involving floats includes some rounding. Typically the inputs are also coming from some inexact source.

The whole point of floating point arithmetic is to be approximate, maintaining only a particular precision because otherwise the number of bits in the answer doubles every time we multiply. If someone cares about exact arithmetic, floats are the wrong tool for the job.

As such, to do pretty much anything with floats you have to keep some idea in mind of the relative accuracy of various values, and the condition number of every operation/algorithm. None of this is explicitly included in the number, you just have to track it manually.

Instead of thinking of a float coming out of some algorithm as an exact value, you should generally think of it as a representative of some implicit range of possible values, a range typically somewhat bigger than ±½eps.
Probably freelancing via something like Upwork. I work an additional 15 hours a week on top of my current job, and the pay seems quite competitive (I mainly take Laravel jobs). The service seems way less 'Wild West' than Freelancer does (which I've had bad experiences with in the past).
I think most new comets are discovered by amateurs.
"Unfortunately at many places, you’re roadblocked in advancing your career unless you become a manager. This sadly incentivizes the wrong outcomes, in which people who don’t love dealing with people become bad managers, and both they and their team suffers."

Random thoughts on this..

A good manager, who builds & runs a good team can achieve far more than any single great employee.

There are no one man companies worth $1bn.

It's appropriate that manager compensation reflects this value for shareholders. The problem is that organisations are very poor at training managers, business schools don't do it at all as far as I can see. MBA's are about money and "problem solving", other courses produce "human resource managers" which is code for pseudo lawyers and process administrators.

Strategic action to create and foster human capital outside academia is woefully lacking in our economy at the moment. Companies are increasingly ephemeral and are not invested in developing people in the way they were, there is a fight for "talent" that seems to suppose that business capabilities are innate and not learned, and disregards the benefits of team work and corporate culture. How many times have people reading watched teams and projects smashed up by new hires (or early career) from Harvard, LBS or IMD who then get promoted to do even more damage or bugger off to consultancy or some other corporate? 6 months of good numbers followed by 5 years of turmoil and painful retrenchment - if you are lucky.

Loyalty is at the heart of bad management, pension schemes locked people in meaning that they were tied to shareholders in the long run. Corporate software is the epitome of this issue - we used to chant "that fine for you but we have to live with it" at vendors, now everyone looks at the latest lashed up piece of crap and things "well, if I am here in five years then no one else will have the faintest idea that this is my fault and anyway I will probably be sacked for not filling some form properly so sod it."

The McKinsey driven cult of performance management (cf. In Search of Excellence, Build to Last and Beyond Performance) has done huge damage. This sets managers against employees in a forced pantomime of marking and red queen style denotions of performance. Management time is burned in handling a dangerous (in career terms) process which ruins their relationship with their teams, employees are asked to do things that demonstrate their performance that are orthogonal to actual performance, and not vital things like supporting team mates or their management, developing for four quarters hence (vs. 2 weeks hence) implementing infrastructure for others and so on.
Most platform providers can't/don't resist the temptation to clone the most lucrative apps built on their platform.
In that case, health insurance is largely bunk. Major medical insurance is insurance. The rest of it, regular doctor visits, copays, eye exams, dental exams, is a payment plan.
> my team members each spend 30 minutes talking with me -- but 7.5 working

makes it sound like it's 30 minutes per day.
The largest currently active group is 2084[0,1] and the largest known group ever was somewhere in mid-4k[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/robintracking/comments/4czzo2/robin...

[1] Also, I'm in it.
> ...but without the invisible man in the sky.

'天', "Heaven", is literally a pictogram of the 'invisible man in the sky'.

The ancient Chinese were monotheist, and Confucius was no exception.

Trying the fit modern norms over historical people and cultures that existed 3000 years ago silly, don't do that.
חדרים לפי שעה בנתניה – Discreetroom
The RIPA law was introduced in the year 2000. Since then there haven't been many cases that went to court, so bits of it haven't been thoroughly tested yet.

> So what's different about this case?

It is a case that's actually happening, which makes it newsworthy. These specific powers under RIPA just aren't used very often. (Unlike other bits, which are frequently used.

Wikipedia says 2 people have been prosecuted for not handing over their keys. (This doesn't tell us how many notices were issued. The Surveillance Commissioner probably has that information. I can't see anything in a quick scan of the annual reports.)

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

(It's useful to look at who is getting prosecuted under RIPA - corrupt police officers setting up illegal surveillance companies; councils wrongly using surveillance to see if families are in a school catchment area).

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/annual-report-of-...

https://osc.independent.gov.uk/protected-electronic-informat...
What's interesting is that those who ascribe some sort of moral (or maybe just sentimental) value to being in work are currently a majority on the left and on the right. That goes for the US as well as for Britain.
My desired approach to management is exactly what you ask for, servant-leadership. That said I do find it difficult sometimes. It's hard to find the balance between driving the vision of the business and serving your employees so they can do stellar work (my experience is startups so this probably doesn't apply to bigger corps). I find many employees who haven't been in an executive position don't understand the pressures that surround needing to find a path for the company to be successful. It is a process filled with doubt and trying to whittle down many options to choose the correct one and sometimes even with great data the answer is not clear. The hard part is shielding the employees from the ambiguities of the business decision process and delivering a clear vision that can be executed upon. Anything else leads to confusion and the sense that the founders/executives are unsure (which as humans they always are, even when they're not). This friction has existed in every place I have worked as an employee or as a founder.
Sargos mentioned 3 benefits that they would expect - flexibility, polish and accessibility.

Sure, maybe we have enough flexibility right now, but Dwarf Fortess definitely isn't a paragon of polish or accessibility.
Lessons About Math, Statistics, Loss Aversion and the Brain from Daniel Kahneman
Per employees per day (on average). This is not time spent in formal meetings of course, but time where you are paying attention to the person and engaged in quality one-on-one conversation.
One could argue that the 10th Amendment counts here. Of course it's such a "catch all" that it's basically always ignored...

OTOH, the govt. chooses to acknowledge the vague and fuzzy parts of the Constitution (eg, the "necessary and reasonable clause") when it's convenient for the State. But if a vague and fuzzy part of the Constitution could be seen as establishing more of a check on the power of the State, well...
> it is exceptionally common for people to not really know what the company is working towards and exactly what management wants them to do

This is exactly the phenomenon I am referring to in my comment (see sister comment on this thread level). Often no one know what management wants them to do including management themselves. The end goal is clear but how to best get there is anyones guess.
Well, you could use the same logic for comments, namespaces, variable and function names, high-level languages.

All of these are created to mitigate human errors. If you think that you don't make them, why bother? Write the whole thing in hand-crafted optimized assembly, from beginning to the end.
I agree that the topic is debatable.

A few years ago I looked for any studies on the usefulness of a version control system over, say, a versioning filesystem. (Examples of such include the VAX filesystem which auto-versioned every save, Dropbox does the same for at least 30 days, and the Mac Time Machine gives access to previous backup snapshots.)

I wondered if for some projects auto-versioning on save or clock event in a VFS would be more useful than manual versioning with a VCS. For an common scenario, co-authors working on a paper might have a shared Dropbox directory. They can modify the images, Word document, etc. safely without risking forgetting something because there's the option to see older versions of the directory.

Those studies have not been done. I know for myself, for the initial stages of a project, I find it more effective to iterate through multiple directories (eg, "foo", "foo2", "foo3") so I can easily compare different approaches, than to create a new repo, name the branches, and check out each one to get the same effect. I also have hourly backups, so I won't loose much in the way of code.