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If Thiel was funding losing suit after losing suit after losing suit, this would be relevant.

But he funded a winning suit. He wasn't pestering them with this suit. It was a 100% legitimate suit. He funded a correct result.

You want scary? Even Hulk Hogan doesn't have enough money to fund a correct lawsuit.
ApplePay on my 2 year old iPhone is very reliable. The only problem with contactless payments is the fact you still have to sign the receipt and tap through the purchase.

Completely defeats the convenience of new tech.

Who's to blame for that cluster?
>All good programmers are self-taught. No good mathematicians (currently) are. I wonder why this is. Probably boils down to what 'math' is trying to accomplish vs. what 'programming' does.

I think that may be because, in mathematics, it's hard to "follow the thread". For example, while programming, you can take a program (or a technique) and start reading the code, following links on Wikipedia, and you will eventually catch on. That is, you can do a top-down approach without many problems.

However, doing that in mathematics is way harder. It's not easy to take a paper, read it and start searching for concepts you don't know in Wikipedia: they usually require other base concepts and ideas which are not easy to understan. Sometimes those concepts are not even mentioned becauase the author just expects every mathematician in the field to know them, but to the layman it just looks like magic.

So in maths you need a bottom-up approach, and that's hard to do alone. You need someone to tell you what to study next and why, teaching you the applications and the related fields. Doing it alone is way harder than in the university.
It's a long-lived HTTP request. The server automatically knows if a client disconnects; that's a feature built into all HTTP server libraries everywhere.

But yes, if you're already using websockets for other features, there's no reason not to continue to use them, as you explained :)
Not questioning the facts of your story, but how did you arrive at a conclusion on officer's motives?
Summary:

1 - Seed money is given on promise

2 - How to get VCs to invest: Build something people want + talk to users + focus = 10% growth

3 - Be default alive, which means:
existing cash + revenue - consistent expenses gets you to breakeven

*How to shoot yourself in the foot: Overhire -> Default Dead -> Ugly Duckling -> No VC
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. In a competitive online scene, any remote potential for an unfair advantage should be taken very seriously. To ensure that their employees aren't using insider knowledge, tools, or access to gain an unfair advantage, they'd have to know what their employees' accounts are. To do otherwise would potentially undermine the company's very business.
I use it everyday. Mostly at vending machines but also anywhere else it's available. Using it with the Apple watch is even easier. Works every time for me... Wish it was accepted everywhere.
I agree that talent is not be-all and end-all. I did not mean that with my comment.
Here's an article with more detail https://rework.withgoogle.com/case-studies/riot-games-assess... Only "a couple" of employees were sent packing, and they were ones with other issues already going on.
IRC would benefit simply by having someone that's actually working to improve it. It doesn't matter if the improvements are superficial; humans are superficial, that stuff matter a lot.
> I never think this is fair.

The project is simple. In 10 mins I can easily review the project. Are there tests? Is it well-composed? Does it run? Really doesnt take long for a simple project. Since every candidate gets the same project it is pretty easy to determine a good solution from a bad one.

> You don't know anything about them by reading this project.

You actually know quite a bit about them after a phone screen plus this project. If they cant come up with a decent solution to a small and simple project then they are not advanced in the process.
I was once called a "drifter" by a UK border guard.

Pro tip: Enter the UK from Ireland. There is no document check. No annoying border guard questions! No body at all. Just walk on through.

With Ryanair this will set you back a whole 30-50 bucks. Plus you can choose your London airport.

When arriving in Ireland, tell them your purpose is to drink a real Guinness! And maybe learn how to dance the jig.
Right you are! This can't be bruit forced. We use brain wiring model and behavioral models to figure out when/how to reward users. We also run a lot of experiments when we have hunches about ways to improve the system.
I have no problem using it every where NFC POS terminals are here in Portland. If more places that use square had NFC reader I would be using apple pay well over 80% of the time.
I feel the same way about C++ smart pointers, which are remarkably simple to use and understand.
Or it is faster than C (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...). Depends which link you click on.
Do let us know when that situation happens.
I did my best to boil a lot of conventional wisdom about negotiating, securing multiple offers, and eschewing equity compensation for cash. Did I leave anything big out?
The theory is that the FBI is trying to get to these people before someone else does.

The flaw in that argument is that focussing on finding people that the FBI can go to great lengths to convince to commit a terror plot, when the FBI is providing the supplies, the plan, the timing, the intel, the guns, the bombs, everything, means they're not focussing on people who are actually out there trying to convince people to become terrorists.

So they're burning out any chance of goodwill with the muslim community because the FBI is secretly infiltrating otherwise innocent communities to try to convince them to do something illegal so they can arrest them, they're letting actual terrorists continue to act while they try to manufacture patsies to arrest instead, and they're actively creating people who are disenfranchised and hate the government out of a) the people they're turning into terrorists, and b) the people who like those people (e.g. other people at the mosque) who watch the FBI turn someone and then arrest them.

In other words, the FBI is doing more harm than good in the long term.
Judges almost always set reward. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a heavy slap aimed at not obeying the court order to take down the video.

http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/sentencing-la...
> This is what really irks me about take home exercises.

The project is simple. In 10 mins I can easily review the project. Are there tests? Is it well-composed? Does it run? Really doesnt take long for a simple project. Since every candidate gets the same project it is pretty easy to determine a good solution from a bad one.

> I would expect a video call where we go over the code together.

Thats what the next step is for.
Confrontational questions are a usual tactic in such interrogations; the goal is not to get the answers, but to get the subject into an agitated state, so he would have a harder time lying about the real questions.
Thank you.
The torrent client (webtorrent) it uses is seed enabled. Only matter is once streaming completes, no seeding will long.
Peter Thiel - once just a billionaire, now - a vindictive censor. Shame on you, mister! I personally won't get myself involved with any startup that makes you any richer! I hope Buycott expands to services so that people can boycott false idols like you more efficiently! I didn't know that PayPal Mafia was literary one!

Edit: A lot of investments, but mostly in companies I either don't like already or can live without: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-thiel/investments - well, except Facebook, for now.
It is only a certain sphere of devs that have such a portfolio. All my work is done for money and I don't have the rights to show it to anyone else.
See: Draft Kings
@ Slack, perhaps.
Or even provide enough info for us to determine that this is a real example we ought to seriously consider, rather than simply a hypothetical bullshit discussion-thread thought experiment? If any market segment could offer a variety of remunerative options for innovation other than a patent, surely it is finance? Indeed most actual financial innovations would never be patented, rather than kept secret under strict NDA.
He brings up the fact that Ubuntu doesn't enable the firewall by default. This is just a poor decision on the part of the Ubuntu maintainers. Sure it doesn't have any ports open by default, but installing a poorly configured package (that does leave a port open) means a potential security hole that could easily be prevented. Incoming firewall should be the rule, not the exception.
I'm not sure thats the best source you can use. C is listed 5 times on there, the slowest taking 15 seconds. Likewise C #3 times similarly to Rust. So is the case that C is actually faster, or did the guy who wrote C #5 optimize the code and neglected to give the same optimizations to Rust.
> - Tables cannot be organized as a clustered index (this can be useful to control rows ordering at the storage layer).

Although not actively maintained by the engine (you have to recluster on a schedule): https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-cluster.h...
Blaming is one thing. Saying that certain actions lead to certain outcomes is another.

Moral responsibility and causality are two different things.
You can't talk about issue 3 without mentioning things like the EFF, ACLU, NAACP, or any number of legitimate third parties that have made it part of their mission to support cases they think are important. How do you deal with those separately or how would you prevent Thiel from simply creating a similar organization and using it for his own personal agenda?
A bunch, including:

1. Most of those platforms don't have compilers for any languages other than C(++). If the platform has a lot of history behind it, maybe you could write it in Ada, but that's pretty much it.

2. Development tools (debuggers, static analyzers, standards compliance verification tools and so on) for C and C++ are very hard to match, both in strength and in sheer availability. In the meantime, Rust still relatively recently got decent GDB support.

3. A lot of Rust's features simply aren't needed when writing this kind of software (e.g. the breadth of features related to memory management is largely unneeded because everything is statically allocated).

4. For better or for worse, C is well-understood (C++ is... well, not that I haven't seen good safety-critical code written in C++, but in my experience, C++ code is a lot easier to get wrong, both by humans and compilers). Rust isn't, not yet in any case. There's no Rust equivalent for e.g. MISRA, and not because Rust doesn't need one.

5. To, uh, put it bluntly -- C and C++ are very well known in the far corners of the world where a lot of this software is outsourced. Rust -- not so much, because outsourcing companies don't really encourage their employees to learn this kind of stuff.

6. There's a lot of commercial risk involved. I'm not sure about autonomous vehicles, this is probably a more volatile field, but many safety-critical systems have to be maintained for a very long time (10 years is fairly common, and 15-20 isn't unheard of). Rust may well be dead and burried ten years from now, whereas language enthusiasts have been singing requiems to C (on roughly the same tune as Rust, no less) for almost thirty years now.

Rust is a great development in this field and I can't wait for the day when we'll finally put C (and especially frickin C++, Jesus, who writes that!) to sleep, but it's at least five years away from the point where I'd even half-heartedly consider it for a project with critical safety requirements.

> If their code was written in Rust, that sort of bug could not have occurred.

I don't know the specifics of the bugs you mentioned, so I can't really comment on this, but in my experience, most of the similar claims that float around the Interwebs are somewhat exaggerated when put in their proper context. E.g. Heartbleed, which wasn't because C something something PDP-11, but because someone decided to be smart about it and implement their own (buggy) memory management system so as to make the damn thing run decently on twenty year-old operating systems.

I've seen people write that kind of code, for similar reasons, in Java and Go -- and, at least once, with Heartbleed-like results. The ways in which a language can be misused rarely reveal themselves before that language breaks out of its devoted community.

To be clear on it though -- I think Rust is a step in the right direction, and one that we should have taken a long, long time ago. If it can make it through its infancy, and if it can get enough commercial support, it will be a great alternative to C and C++.
There is nothing about IRC which dictates what UX you have to use. Nothing was stopping the slack team with creating that client.
Out of curiosity, a graduate or undergrad applied math degree? Contemplating embarking on a similar path myself in a few years after I have the requisite background courses.
He named LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman; Walter Isaacson, head of the Aspen Institute, former CEO of CNN, and a biographer of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and others; and Admiral Bill McRaven, former head of Special Operations.

I don't pretend to know much about those people or the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, but if you could pick anyone to advise the Department of Defense on innovation, who would it be?
The Mother Jones case is completely different. Florida has anti-SLAPP laws, Idaho doesn't.

Maybe Florida anti-SLAPP laws aren't good enough, I don't know. But it's a tough balance. Bollea's case was determine by a judge to have enough merit to take to court.

Bollea will probably lose on appeal. But he definitely has the right to his day in court.
As to point 3, your question is still too narrow. We should ask if even self funding of legal matters should be allowed. Even if we say this case should have happened because of funding, we are left with two major issues.

First, we are left saying that this outcome would have been fine if Hulk had the money to do scorched earth. Second, we directly admit that the outcome of this case is the result of the money spent. Both of these, especially when taken together, are a death blow to any notion of justice in regards to law. And I don't even see this as a question, but a reality that we seem unable to admit to ourselves.
Don't be a jerk... he has a tool that he and his team likes, and he was using it for a real task. No need to be a jerk about it. Yes a phone would work, was that what he was using at the time? No.
My only problem with CentOS is that it is "outdated." A few times this was annoying because I had hit a bug that was fixed in newer versions. I understand that outdated is a feature of CentOS, but it comes with a trade off.

I switched my servers to Ubuntu for now.
I'm in awe that some sales person was able to sell Walmart, Target, BestBuy, CVS and all these other stingy retailers on a payment system like CurrentC/MCX. Any B2B enterprise focused startup would be wise to find and poach these guys.

That aside, I have no sympathy for MCX's demise. These guys started out trying to charge $30k just to view their PowerPoint deck. $1m to join the consortium and get a board seat. This may seem like pennies to these billion dollar valuation startups, but retailers are a different breed not willing to spend a dime on anything that hasn't been proven.

At my last retail job I was was pitched by these guys (without the PPT fee) and had a hard time keeping a straight face when they said they wanted the consumers to give up their bank account info right after the Target breach, but somehow they found a whole bunch of backers.
Do bear in mind that there is better contactless support in other countries – that's probably one of the reasons Apple Pay is less convenient to use in the US!

In the UK, at least 1% of all transport payments in London use Apple Pay – a pretty huge volume considering. It's also universally accepted wherever there is contactless support (which over here is now becoming ubiquitous).
The affirmation that US states are sovereign is not unanimously agreed upon :)

That said, even if that's technically true, I think it blurs the history, which is part of what makes it feel special. An US citizen takes that border crossing for granted since birth, but as an European, I'm aware that my grandmother already as an adult had to cross it clandestinely, at the risk of her own life, and even my parents still had to pass through customs and declare the purpose of their trip. I'm the first generation of my family for whom crossing the border is truly a free experience.
I don't think the parent comment is talking about the UX really.

But on the topic of UX and what are or are not losing, I will say that the UX of slack is not so good when it eats 2gb of memory all day and beachballs a modern day iMac quite badly if you have a channel with lots of fancy formatting.

I have written to slack about this and they wrote a polite response back acknowledging the issue. Really hope they do solve this soon (Despite the connectivity issues) because it's become unusable for my team lately. Supposedly according to slack it is compounded when you have multiple teams.

We have a team per client as we primarily do consulting, so now we have had to switch some teams over to another solution so that we can allow the teams that must be in slack to stay in slack.

So, while I think slack has the potential to be much better in every single way, days like today illustrate that it's an SPOF, and on days when it is available, I would not call the experience reliably good, not as reliably good as modern day IRC is, unfortunately. (and I don't say this lightly, i love things like in-line code blocks, @ notifying people, mobile clients, and more)
Compared to the big commercial engines, the one thing I miss is query parallelisim, but the initual stages are coming in v9.6: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2015/11/parallel-sequential-scan-i...
I'm not a paying customer of or affiliated with Surge—just a happy user.

Surge is what I've always wanted to when I do frontend development for fun and learning. This is especially true if you're new. When you're new, you don't want to set up a server to push to Heroku or Digital Ocean, you may not want to use GitHub pages, or other alternatives (not aware of all, just the ones I mentioned). You may still be new to git and git-based deployments.

Surge is simple: `surge -p build` will upload the `build` directory and give you a nice HTTPS URL to share with your friends. `surge` does the same with the current directory. You can pick a URL under their domain or use one you own. It all takes a few seconds. Perfect for portfolios, demos, etc.

If you use npm you can `npm install --save-dev surge` and add a script that does your production build step and then calls surge to deploy it.

Very underrated service!
Looks like you are correct Excel 1.0 and Word 1.0 were released for the Mac in 1985, Word 1.0 was released for MS-DOS 18 months earlier.
Excel was never released for the MSDOS and both it and Word came to Windows in 1987.
In my [limited] experience with CBIR and image based search, I found that using a color space with perceptual spatial qualities (such as one of the CIE LaB variants) to be more effective than a purely normalized geometric color space (such as RGB or HSV), as color similarities in the latter may not make much sense to a human.
The calendar also shows 100% uptime for June 2016 despite the big red outage indicator in today's box.

Perhaps the displayed uptime percentage is for the status page itself?
You understand this has been disproved hundreds of times, not to mention, the "review" in question never existed?
You're the expert, but I don't see the harm of "maintenance". If Boella was wronged legally, he should be made whole. Whether he uses his own money to make his case doesn't change the correctness of the ruling.

People use the courts to get payback all the time, in a variety of ways. It's not about what's right, its about what's allowed. People with a lot of money have a big advantage in that regard. If we try to change that, we'll have to redo a lot of the legal system.

Thiel can do whatever he wants with his money, including using it on legal cases. The key rule that Gawker broke here was "Don't make powerful enemies"
The same can be said for "The Social Network". Granted, Facebook and Zuckerberk are for more mainstream than Theranos.
No True Scotsman requires a non falsifiable hypothesis. And how exactly did I construct a strawman?
> Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal

Only in simple CRUD applications where the data being displayed is a 1-1 with how the data is stored.

In any non-trivial CRUD application this is not the case, and paging/filtering/sorting on a field that is being displayed quickly becomes non-trivial if you are trying to do it for every field.
Because they were trying to find out if obviously helpless old people were terrorists, and asking questions geared towards that.

It's possible they didn't have any motive, and the composition of that room was just a fluke. But I don't think it's likely.
Apple Pay has been a godsend for me. I carry one backup debit card and slimmed my wallet down to almost nothing.

In Canada, we've had contactless terminals everywhere for a few years, so it's very rare to find a place where I can't just tap my Apple Watch or iPhone to pay. There's no need to find a place to explicitly supports Apple Pay, it works the exact same way our credit and debit cards have for years.
I wonder what kind of horrible stuff they'll put up for sale that they probably didn't dare to publish themselves.
I will certainly concede the second, but we put a _lot_ of effort into ensuring that Rust is stable. Things have changed a lot since the pre-1.0 days.