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I was wrong. The two one-liners for J and APL are different. The original paper [0] gives the original APL implementation of the above J one-liner.

I'm not going to delve deep into the algorithm, but the following quote from the paper fascinates me.

It is voracious for work space. For concreteness, consider
the case n←8 . The intermediate expression p[;c] has shape
(!8),(2!8),2 , requiring 9031704 bytes on IBM-based APL
systems.

It uses 9 MB! Such a 'voracious' algorithm!

[0] http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/nqueens.htm
I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the MaxMind folks are doing the "right thing" and relocating the default coordinates to the middle of bodies of water.

It'd also be nice if they returned (-inf, -inf) or something so people know it's not a "real" location, lest folks start looking for the house closest to the lake.
How is one person asking a question inhibiting any of that?
For more info read the very good "Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics" by David Mindell.
This was already submitted and flagged for being clickbait, marketing spam. The comparisons are sensational and hardly conclusive. In addition, 2 panel layouts with widgets aren't something so special to uniquely identify ones' product with. If you really feel like the look and feel was ripped, go ahead and get a lawyer. But honestly, the comparisons are pretty specious.
> Yes, Erlang is such a toy language[1], it's never used for "professional development" at all[2].

From your sarcastic tone it seems like you take issue with something you think I've said, but since your post is unrelated to anything I actually said, I can only guess that you've inferred some meaning that isn't there.
In theory they would be going the speed limit, which means overtaking them would require breaking the speed limit and therefore the law. Yes it will be annoying for those that want to drive faster than the speed limit.
As a general rule you are better off, for overall mental wellbeing, doing sports rather than not.

I personally think that programming is a pastime that contributes more to depression than any cycle sport does.
What is ultimately better for capitalism:

$100 in capital held by each of 100,000 people, where chances are at least one will utilize the capital to invest in an innovative new idea or trade in a marketplace, or $10,000,000 held by 1 person, where chances are that person is an heir who plays videogames all day
Comic Sans is a terrible font, even when used for its intended purpose. It has a really off-kilter awkwardness that doesn't evoke any sense of youth or playfulness.

The perfect argument against Comic Sans is Chalkboard [1], a font created by Apple to have the same look but fixes everything wrong with it. Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, uses it as an example of how great Comic Sans is, saying "if Comic Sans is bad why make something similar." [2] But they made something similar because it was bad and needed fixing. Chalkboard shows that the concept of a casual handwriting/comic font is valid, it's just that Comic Sans blew the execution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalkboard_(typeface)
[2] http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm
As long as you also increase taxes and have penalties in every country. Go to India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, China (The list could go on). The air is polluted with the stench of car exhaust pretty much every where you go. I even went to London a few months ago and got sick because of the pollution. When I would blow my nose at the end of the day, black nasty soot would be on the kleenix.

The US has done a lot to help out climate change and the environment. We have all kinds of EPA standards on our vehicles (that are actually followed), which have been in place for at least a decade or more. I can go to most major cities and not feel like I'm choking from the rancid air.

These taxes only end up strangling our economy because we follow the rules and other countries go un-checked because there is virtually no penalty.

"Carbon credits are a good market-based solution too, but it seems likely that people and industries will try to game the system."

Carbon credits are a joke. Huge companies pay for them and then just continue polluting. I thought the goal was to fix our environment, not make carbon credit companies wealthy. Money shouldn't give you a free pass to pollute.

Are we also going to tax electric vehicles because the batteries cause damage to the environment (and we don't have a good way to dispose of them yet)? How about the electricity used to charge the vehicle itself? Will that be taxed as well unless it's solar/wind/hydro?
Regarding water temperature, there are two big changes when you move away from the equator:

1. Temperatures drop.

2. Temperature variability increases. (Seasons are more meaningful away from the equator.)

The second issue, of temperature variability, is a main problem that prevents reefs from migrating away from the equator in response to global warming. The corals can't tolerate a wide range of temperatures.

The other problem, as you say, is the time frame. Reefs are built up over thousands of years, and we are warming and acidifying the oceans over mere decades.

(And ocean acidification isn't helped at all by moving away from the equator.)
Bike registration gets lots of serious consideration:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mandatory+bike+registration
If you think of the world as being deterministic then the way your atoms will react with other atoms (their place in time and space) will be a direct consequence of where they were before, which again is a consequence of their previous state and we can track this all the way back to your current life.
> We could make the browser the OS.

Nah, the browser is a graphical terminal akin to X11's original usage.

The OS is out there in the clouds...
Has anyone looked at the article and can comment on how large the effect is?
Good tips for preventing burnout before it happens! Anyone have any tips for how to recover from burnout _after_ it has already happened?
If they would stop their vigilant focus on collecting revenue, they might have a little more time to investigate the little stuff? The stuff that we all grew up thinking they did?

Where I live, they hide beside hedges, or in blind spots, and ticket Soccer moms for California Stops at odd hours. Hours when no one is even out.

Oh, and let's not forget, the real work. Pulling over 200 vechicles on Friday, Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoons(we all get rip roaring drunk after the big game?); and look for that guy who's just over .08.
Rumor was that the other teams developed the self-modifying code, not Benetton. This is all rumor and speculation though. No one's going to come out now and say "Yeah we totally cheated back then" because the FIA could reverse standings and vacate championships.
What if the middle ground just gives you the worst of the both worlds. What if the idea of measuring the success of an economy via an aggregate quantity is flawed?

It seems to me that optimizing for aggregate demand or aggregate supply will merely result in redistributing to politically connected individuals who are able to convince the authorities that their programme will improve that metric.
As for number 5 - Postgres already does that. This feature is called "constraints". Such constraints can be applied to multiple columns and are used to build better query plans (as well as limiting DML operations)
Swimming.
As SF author Robert Heinlein said through one of his characters, "Politics and peristalsis are similar, both in the quality of the outcome and the importance to your well-being and continued existence."
This is more political commentary, and the point of my comment was that this isn't the place for that. Also there are an infinite number of viewpoints on this subject in between those you outlined.
The USA, specifically pizzahut.com prevents you from using any special characters in your password.

You can see the message here: http://imgur.com/T8R6Fnr

I thought they used to also have limits on the maximum length, but thankfully that doesn't seem to be there when I tested it just now.
I'm not aware of the CRA disallowing you from doing business in USD/EUR/GBP? And you can open bank accounts in those currencies right inside of Canada (have done it myself for GBP, USD).
May be they could save some on the armored cars and assault rifles.
Why the assumption that state or local governments should be responsible for digital defense?

If we could spend "many billions" to build this "infosec investigative capability," would it not be more efficient to implement at the federal level? Rather than training (and funding) N specialists at X different locations, why not train XN specialists at one single location?
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If you have a pair of good headphones, try the dolby surround processed versions on this YouTube account. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kuokka77/playlists

Some are just great, some sound so spacious that I once thought I forgot to connect my headphones and the sound came from somewhere outside.
Higher-order functions (funargs) do not equal first-class functions (lambdas). It happens to be that any language which supports first-class function must also support higher-order functions, but the reverse is not necessarily true.
You're right, of course.

My experience has been that the social norms and cues in the workplace are generally stacked against people doing these things, and in the past five years seem to have moved farther away from these ideals rather than closer to them. Maybe that isn't really the trend; that's my perception of it though.

Maybe I just need to do a better job of finding the right arrangement. It doesn't seem like an easy topic to address in the hiring process though. I find that I only really learn what the environment is like by working in it, and even that can change from team to team or month to month.
That and the seamingly endless line of trucks one after the other. Not really a problem on a two lane road though.
Flyertalk, businessclass.{se,no,dk,co.uk}, insideflyer.de, onemileatatime.boardingarea.com etc etc.

Plus personal crawler projects and contacts with similar-minded people.

Warning: if you don't find this fun it's probably not worth the time. Expect to spend a lot of time chasing these deals.

It does seem to get harder over time, judging from my ~5 years in the game. Just a few years ago there were gaping holes in the system, allowing anyone to buy 100k miles from US Airways for $1200 and then spend them on quite on e.g. a 90k mile (or was it 110k?) First class roundtrips Europe/NA-Asia with e.g. ANA, Asiana iirc.
What happened to your DNS data? Did you switch to dynamic DNS based upon database data? You talk about how much a burden the manual DNS information was, but then you don't specify how you actually solved it using "automation." Is it all dynamic? Everything use SRV records that have TTL's or are added and removed?

Sorry for so many questions, but you made a big deal about how manual "DNS curation" was a bad thing, then glossed over the solution.
Good point. I remember specifically discovering a drive-by download this way back in 2004-ish. Hard drive started going crazy on my desktop when I visited an A/V review website that otherwise seemed benign enough.
The downside of inflation is that is screws the poor and redistributes wealth to the already rich. The former is evidenced by our need to continually increase the minimum wage and the latter occurs because the middle class is pushed into investments to beat inflation, socializing business risk while leaving the gains to the already wealthy.
As a simplification, I did not draw any of the blocks contributing to code signing. RSA is used everywhere to ensure that the code is signed. If you consider the signature as the MAC, it does "Authenticate Then Encrypt" (the signature is over the NCCH or FIRM header. The header contains hash + size of each section.)
Nobody is going to deny that there's revenue-generating traffic policing happening --- though things are improving; many states now ban ticket quotas statewide --- but it's very unlikely that ending that practice would somehow result in police effectively investigating bike theft.

I don't know how to respond to the weird point about drunk driving. If you have any uncertainty at all about whether you might be close to the limit, just don't drive. No excuses.
That is a cliche'. FWIW been there, done that, got the T-shirt. I still think Bouchaud/Mezard is onto something almost revolutionary.

Bouchaud/Mezard's claims have a novel perspective but are consistent with other studies over the years. Society remains in a state of ignorance and denial of this simple idea:

The rich are lucky, not skillful. A person may benefit from his/her skill, but not necessarily from his/her luck. Society should determine the partition of luck/skill in wealth, tax the luck and reward the skill.

[Yes, I would tax lottery winnings very heavily, since they are nearly 100% luck!]
To those who would ask "why rip vinyl instead of getting the CD?", there are lots and lots of records that never made it to CD.
Capital goes to where to where it will do the most work.
Also, this whole solution sounds like a Linux clone of Microsoft's Automated Deployment Services -- way ahead of its time and under-appreciated in 2004.
Anything that is subsidized to the level that solar has been will grow until the subsidies end or are reduced. If pedal power were subsidized in this fashion, not only would the power-generating stationary bike industry explode, but American obesity rates would plummet - right up until the subsidy ended.

Solar would continue to grow if it were economically viable on its own. It's getting closer and I hope it gets there. But when I said "appreciable results" I meant the introduction of economically viable alternatives, absent subsidies.
Please work out the math on this (an estimate shouldn't be hard to get; just work from published numbers like headcount and weapons/ammunition costs), and then try to come up with an argument about how a change to police armament would recover more bikes (and, how many?).
I tried to make that a little more readable, and converted it to py3 -- This one produces the same output with python3, as your one-liner with python2:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

from itertools import permutations as p

for vec in p(range(8)):
if 8 == len(set(vec[i]+i for i in range(8))) \
== len(set(vec[i]-i for i in range(8))):
print("\n".join( '.' * i + 'Q' + '.' * (8-i-1) for i in vec),
end="\n===\n")

The string construction could/should probably also be refactored a bit, but at least this version I have a hope of following the logic... :-)
"If you don't learn anything new, eventually you not only will hate your job you might not even have one anymore!"

This is true. I know many people who are in a job that they do not particularly love. And they stay because of intangible benefits like flexible work schedules or ability to work remote or sabbaticals. And I worry a little about what will happen if they ever need to find another job with their specialized skillset and years of the same experience, copied and pasted from one year to another. Many of these people will stay until their kids are out of college (or even longer). The market does not change much (stable) but there is no growth (few companies doing the same thing, or even contracting). However, I don't worry as much as I used to because we all live our own lives - coding is just a part of their lives, not the main one. Family is really it. To the 9 to 5 coders, I wish sometimes I could be more like you.
Getting rid of the old versions is part of the process a lot of malware takes. With Windows, for example, one of the first things it does is try to latch onto any admin request so that it can delete any disk snapshots that may exist on the system. Versioning's pretty awesome, but unfortunately the people who do these attacks have already come across versioned filesystems enough to make them work their way around it.
No, not really. The problem is people using it in places where a kid-handwriting font makes no sense.
Great article - "...new study suggests a staggering $21tn in assets has been lost to global tax havens. If taxed, that could have been enough to put parts of Africa back on its feet – and even solve the euro crisis"
Relevant Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7084212/is-scala-idiomati...
Driving over the speed limit is legal when overtaking, at least in the UK. To limit overtaking to the speed limit would be incredibly unsafe.
Because that's not important to this discussion.

The point is that lots of small businesses are much better "consumers" because the they have much more needs than if you only had a few big companies.

The number of employees aren't important, the number of companies are.

The wealth which the trickle down economy critics talk about is not the wealth that is meant when talking about trickle down effects by most people.

The wealth that is meant is the wealth of the many small companies rather than the few wealthy who have most of their wealth in ex. real-estate.

The wealth of the few ultra rich isn't trickling down, but the wealth of the many small companies are because it's creating other jobs in other companies.

In other words.

If we live in a world were only 1000 people had any wealth their ability to stimulate the economy from their own needs aren't enough compared to their wealth.

But if we lived in a world where 100000000 are sharing the wealth then that alone creates much more economic activity.
Help me understand a bit more about how a bogus key was able to generate a gibberish text segment that code could successfully return into if all program text was protected by RSA signatures. I may have misread the article.
This question is less absurd than it sounds. You just need to find someone who is both talented and lucky enough to have already made all the money they will ever need to live on, and whose biggest challenge in life is that of finding something meaningful to do with their time. You get them to work for free by offering something they can't just buy: work they are personally interested in doing which is aligned with their sense of meaning. The pitch is that you will do the work they don't want to do, you will put together the support team and infrastructure they need, and in exchange for their time and experience you will be giving them an opportunity for autonomy and accomplishment which is greater than what they could reach on their own.

The secret many people haven't realized is that this situation effectively holds for talented programmers even when you are offering a salary: offering a salary broadens the pool of talented programmers who can afford to accept your offer, which is important, but it also clouds the issue by mixing in an extrinsic motivation for doing the work, which is not correlated with skill.
Yeah, Doug has been on a spree over the last few weeks. While I can't say I necessary agree with everything he's saying (partly because I just haven't done enough research and don't know history well enough), I will say that his viewpoint is a definitely a breath of fresh air. It has definitely got me re-thinking some assumptions I had.
Scheme as an idea goes way back, but the version of Scheme used by SICP 2e is about as old (young?) as Python is -- both made their initial appearances in the very early 90s. And just like Python hasn't stood still in those 25 years, neither has Scheme, having had three further updates to the definition and quite a lot of research in areas such as hygienic macros and composable continuations, among other things, which make appearances in various implementations (but especially Racket... those guys have a habit of implementing pretty much every paper about Scheme...)
> Also, imagine if "cash" was of fixed supply (Bitcoin) rather than inflationary. In which case, you could make paper gains over time by not spending it or investing it. Wouldn't this provide more people with financial security given the risks and complexity of investing money in general?

New currencies are needed but bitcoin and old school gold for that matter encourage hoarding, gold is worse because the control of gold is owned by physical mining. At least bitcoin doesn't leave monetary value up to physical mining, but still it does encourage hoarding. If a currency gains value over time doing nothing then investment will be lower.

Fiat currencies encourage investment because the value of your money goes down if it sits and is hoarded. Even though control of the currency is by the Fed and shadowy banking cabals, at least it spawns investment by wealth as they like to increase their money not see it slowly fade away to inflation.

Investment is key to growth/innovation but there has to be some demand there. Demand creation is always overlooked, when wages aren't raised, when companies move out of the US etc. These things directly impact demand and purchasing power of consumers at all levels eventually.

What will the robots build, sell or manage if noone has any money to buy anything? I don't necessarily buy that robots will remove all work. Computers were supposed to do the same, it has just enabled productivity gains to do more with less. There will always be more work to do, we haven't even explored very far off this rock. We need robots at every level but it won't mean less work, we'll have robot armies and it will enable entrepreneurs to do more with less.
I don't think that this is true, non-rotating black holes can also emit Hawking radiation. Besides that, there are probably no non-rotating black holes, having an angular momentum of (exactly) zero is a pretty improbable situation and a single particle falling not exactly radially into a non-rotating black hole would turn it into a rotating black hole albeit with a really tiny angular momentum.
Often this is true in spades for politics. Even the politics of hatred. Much has been written on the economic underpinnings of the genocide in Rwanda. Awareness of this makes climate change an even more pressing issue.
> As to why all the hate, it's easy: middle class people with any "artistic" or "creative" inspirations (and I use the term loosely) will jump at the first chance to feel more sophisticated than the great unwashed masses. And designers are the very epitome of that crowd.

Blaming the overwrought hatred of Comic Sans entirely on the sneering bourgeoisie is just as silly as blaming it on the great unwashed masses. (Which this article did not do.)
Haha, no way, I wonder how many of all participants were on drugs!
Apparently complaining about living in poverty is victim culture. Apparently complaining about working two full-time minimum wage jobs while barely being able to pay the bills is victim culture. Apparently complaining about not being able to afford a quality education for your children (so that they do not have to live in the same poverty) is victim culture. Apparently complaining about not being able to afford healthcare is victim culture.

Sure, people doing startups or creating other businesses work hard, but that shouldn't be the norm. Working 40 hours a week as an employee should be enough. And by the way we're not even complaining about the people creating businesses, we're complaining about the people who inherit their wealth, get everything handed on a silver platter, and who still aren't grateful and don't want to pay their employees more than minimum wage. We shouldn't accept that kind of wealth in our society when there are people living in (extreme) poverty.
Ah, yes. The perils of which have been demonstrated for over a decade now.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...