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I support TPP for geopolitical reasons, I am sure the Elites in the corridors of Power in Google do it for "access" and ability to sue the shit out of the gubmints that come in their way.
The case of the 500-mile email (2002)
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The article goes on about how the problems are mainly caused by government regulation. You don't have a choice. Zoning laws forbid living close to businesses, forbid streets that are too small for cars, mandate space for parking, forbid spacing houses to close together, forbid housing for the poor, etc.

If we eliminated these rules and people still chose to live in suburbs, that's fine. Choice is great. Let others live differently.
As someone who lives, and prefers to live, a car-centric lifestyle (as opposed to walking or taking public transportation), most of the points in this article don't bother me. I think this is just another rehash of the "cars are bad" argument that keeps making the rounds.
It's not like our politicians would ever dream of doing something like that anyway. I have a certain feeling that they would be more prone to obey Google than their constituents.
Will Darth Thiel now give Hulk Hogan the money he won't get from the court outcome?

Or is Hulk Hogan left as just a pawn in the game, with the court victory but no payout?
A lot of photographers will now video behind the scenes stuff to show them at work and have that ready for clients if questions arise. Also, during meetings (interviews) with potential clients invariably I'd talk through and show a collection of work that was similar to the types of problem the client was trying to solve.

Might have been a wedding or a commercial shoot, I'd show them stuff that would solve what they needed and talk through with them.

Similar things have happened with editing.

I suppose an equivalent would be not just code but maybe wider community contributions. As I mentioned a portfolio goes beyond just 'code' or some 'product' that you made. It's there to sell 'you' so that includes things like bug fixing, visible issue solving, maybe mailing lists, maybe run a community platform, maybe clear contributions to open source projects or whatever. Anything you wnat I guess.

It's relatively easy to become 'public' enough to be obvious who you are, or use some kind of cryptographic proof etc.

There will be problems of due diligence, those are universal, but I think individuals and companies would both be better off if they took portfolios more seriously.
I can't see how any of these lists could be at all useful.

Each manufacturer produces a variety of models and the reliability of each model can vary by the year.

If you want to buy a car, look at the model-years in your price range and then research which of those is reliable or a lemon.
The monitoring considered in the OP is for server farms and networks where the main challenges are rates of false alarms and rates of missed detections.

The challenge is to find means of monitoring that will permit selecting the rate of false alarms are willing to tolerate and, then, for that rate, get the lowest rate possible for missed detections.

Thus, would like to use the Neyman-Pearson result. Usually, however, for this context, do not have enough data for that. E.g., typically are quite short on data on the anomalies are trying to detect, and more short as the systems become more reliable.

From the above, we see that necessarily and inescapably such monitoring is some continually applied statistical hypothesis tests.

Apparently in practice, false alarm rate is not known and not reasonable to select or even to adjust.

Then we see that we need tests are both multi-dimensional and distribution-free.

A special case of high interest is zero-day problems, that is, detecting problems never seen before. So, this is behavioral monitoring -- any behavior sufficiently unusual is regarded as an anomaly, that is, evidence of something wrong.

From all I can see, so far the monitoring community has yet to take these points to heart.

The OP's remarks on thresholds are on target: Thresholds have been the old, lame, weak workhorse of monitoring far too long.

If anyone is actually seriously interested in this subject, let me know. Some years ago I concluded that no one was interested!
Ah, but Google often does the things it knows people aren't going to like behind closed doors. (For instance, Google's control over Android is done via confidential agreements. The public hasn't seen a version of these agreements newer than 2011.)

An open, public endorsement of something that most tech enthusiasts who use their products know is a bad thing, is a very surprising move. I'm pretty sure I've seen a number of Google employees condemning the TPP in the last year or two as well.
You stated ...No good mathematicians (currently) are [self-taught]

The main thrust of my post was that all good Xs are self-taught, for all values of X.

That's the primary point of disagreement between us.

Lots of self-teaching happens within the confines of formal education. And almost all learning that happens outside of formal education is done via some form of instruction or another (books, tutorials, video lectures, etc.)
Do you also think that good taste required reporting on the Mohammed cartoons without actually showing them?
When I was at Google Mountain View in 2009, they had a TV scrolling through current search terms.. Some of them were hilarious...
the last part of that where paul irish live edits sass looks pretty awesome! good job chrome team!
Which movie is that? I'd like to see it now.
> a strong indication of their increasing closed door ties with the Obama administration.

This is what I want when I grow up. I want this power.
It amazes me that that we have reached this point.
Anybody know why? I couldn't find a reason. Shouldn't code be considered a form of speech?
Yeah, although the principles/rules are in quite public places. It's rather like the ITU standards in that regard - you pay for the documents.

Applying them feels like buying indulgences. :)
Wonobo (http://places.wonobo.com/) seems to be doing this in India. Although, their site seems to be pretty slow at the moment.
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I grew up in the suburbs and have as an adult lived in everything from traditional suburbs to a dense inner city. If I had the choice, I'd happily move back to the suburbs. Suburbs are easy to get around (assuming you have a car) and there's plenty of privacy. There's little of the cheek-by-jowl cramming together of people that you find in dense cities.

I don't really know what people mean when they say suburbs are dull. There always seemed to be plenty of options everywhere I lived, conveniently accessible by car. Are the people who complain about this stuff real oddballs who need weird stuff you can only find in the biggest of cities, or are they congenitally hostile to driving?
> artificial value to killing them

Another way to think about it is an artificial value to keeping the population going. All the animals will eventually die yielding a reward, but if you can keep a population going, the reward will keep coming.

The "solution" for countries who wanted to remove invasive species is to embrace pretty heavy handed comprehensive enforcement. (See http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canada-declares-wa...)
I must sound like an alien, but what is suburbia? How do I know if I live there?
Is this a satirical comment or are you actually using the word "megacorps" seriously? Just because a company is big doesn't mean it is nefarious. You should explain why these companies are evil and how them endorsing TPP is a bad thing.
Thanks for the thorough answer to my concerns.
Yessir. As observed driving around Montreal circa 2003.
Suburbia is popular because people enjoy living in suburbia. It's annoying when people write articles like this and don't bother to talk to people who live there and find out why.
James Howard Kunstler gave an incredibly sharp, funny talk called "The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs" on both the history and design problems of the suburbs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_sub...
40 minute games where you are heavily penalized for leaving even when someone else leaves. It's a team based game where you can see your entire team on a map. Ranked matches are competely dependent on teamwork. It seems obvious to me why there is so much vitriol in league.
Cape Verde Islands are closest, but the coast of Africa itself is not much further from Brazil. It's really easy to conceive of trade getting to the Ivory Coast and then traders making the trip to the Americas.
They mention "Progressive web apps" and link to some info, but I can't figure out what the difference is from a normal webpage. Do they mean "web apps that use some stuff that was recently added to most modern web browsers"?
TTIP and TPP are two different trade agreements.
It's called "Udta Punjab" (or "Flying Punjab", if my translation is correct)
Udta Punjab (Literal trans: Flying Punjab or somewhat less literally, High Punjab)
His last point about regional planning can't be emphasized enough. The city I live in is entirely independent of its surrounding county, which itself is a patchwork of incorporated and unincorporated municipalities (and where the vast majority of people choose to live). This bifurcation causes all sorts of fundamental planning issues that harm the region.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.)

It's just displaying this: https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&nco...
> Rural areas are superior to urban areas by nearly every possible measure...

What is it you love about the countryside?
I emailed her to try to get her to speak (remotely) at a SAGE board meeting. Never heard back. I'd love to have her engage in a conversation with us.
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>most everyone who uses their products knows is a bad thing

I very much doubt most of their users could even tell you what it stood for, let alone have an opinion on its value.
The most underrated comment in the whole thread
I just spent 2 months in a major 2nd-tier Indian city, going out almost daily. Didn't see someone defecating openly even once. Take it FWIW.
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I consider my belief how this particular battle will turn out a good litmus test for my pessimism/optimism.

Some days I can't imagine a future where universal open access is implemented, at other times it seems inevitable. Seeing that I must normally believe it to be a 50/50 thing makes it a great way to calibrate my mood out of my decision making process.

More on topic: I wonder if we'll see countries take a stance in these battles. Why isn't Ecuador Hosting a Sci-Hub Mirror for their citizens? The naive observer might think there is only upsides for countries like these to such an action.
I've had the opposite experience. The concept of a query builder is great, but SQLAlchemy is a pain. Its documentation is particularly hard to traverse or search, and it's super unintuitive. Perhaps the nature of query building is deceptively complex, but it seems like the library just tries to be too magical and ends up making things worse instead of better.
When I was single-ish, I loved living in the heart of Seattle.

Now that I have a family, I really love living in the burbs, for pretty much all the reasons that irritated me about living in the heart of a big city. Having a young infant really changed my priorities.
So with the bailouts, they took the haircut right away and baked the risk into the deal they made with the auto manufacturers. Then they ate the risk in their transaction right away and wrote down the loss.

With the loans they made to Ford they used a different tactic -- they said to hell with the financial risk (which you usually bake into your interest rate) and made the loans anyway and left open the possibility of devastating financial losses. The only reason we're looking at this positively is because Ford was a success story. Had Ford folded, congressional heads would have rolled and we'd be cursing the TALF loans and praising the TARP bailouts.
Ods are you won't get it, just will be on the bad side of the deal, being oppressed instead of opressing others.
Woops, my mistake. Edited s/TTIP/this/.
Insanely useful. I believe it should be state of the art. Even model checkers are vastly more useful than nothing.
The unwritten hand-waved expectation is that you should develop side projects in your spare time.

I find that this is incredibly discriminating against people who have other hobbies and don't like to spend 80 hours a week coding with only 40-50 of those being paid.

Where the programmer/photographer analogy fails is that usually, the photographer retains the right to the vast majority of their creative body of work, whereas a developer might not have anything client-facing to show at all, even if they have side projects.
Sorry, but I prefer suburbia over everything else, and I can't stand to live in a city.

I like wide-open spaces, a lack of noise, and cheap spacious housing. Cities just make me claustrophobic, and I can't stand it. I absolutely cannot tolerate having anyone else live above or below me, and noise drives me up the wall like nothing else. I've got a big-ass house for considerably less than $1 per square foot per month, I have no noise, and I like the aesthetics of the area around me. Also, the crime rate is very low, and I don't have homeless people constantly demanding I give them money and then shouting epithets at me when they find out I don't carry cash (that happened multiple times a day back when I used to work downtown; it hasn't happened even once since I started working in the suburbs again).

All in all, cities are nice places to play tourist and visit in small doses, but I'd rather live in the suburbs.

Edit: I'll also add that I'm openly LGBT, and I've heard horror stories from other LGBT people, even those who live in very liberal cities, about some of the things that get shouted at them on the street in urban environments. Even in a liberal place like Boston, you're going to have punks shouting slurs at you on the street if you're openly LGBT, yet I live in suburban Texas and nobody has shouted a single homophobic or transphobic epithet at me in the suburbs. Everyone is polite and friendly to me. I feel safe here. I don't care if it's just an act and they're just being polite to my face because they're taught to be polite to everyone even though they're going to talk about me behind my back; just as long as I don't have to hear the abuse, I'm fine.
Julian Assange and Edward Snowden second that. The extent Google is tied to Obama administration is astonishing.
This sounds fair. :-)
This happens even in 1v1 games...

See http://www.pcgamesn.com/starcraft/starcraft-2-progamer-steph...
There's a heck of a lot of people in the world who know what they're doing is wrong, but simply do not care until they get caught doing it.

Sure, if your boss pulls you into his office and says your chat in that last game was completely unacceptable, you'll feel properly ashamed. But take that same person and put them in a situation where they know they can't be caught doing it (say, when they're playing an Xbox Live game), and the toxicity will spring right back.

It's not sufficient for society to merely teach people what things are wrong; that's not enough to stop every person. We also hire police to fill in the gaps.
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If these benefits are legitimate, why can't they focus on 5 or 10 specific objectives, and write them in some concise form like the Bill of Rights? Why does it need to be 2,000 pages and full of complex, obsfucated concepts and details?

Is the only way for progress to happen?

And even if the TPP is completely beneficial, it is still part of the philosophy of economic integration. Which at its heart is promoting the centralization of power and the diminishment of classical liberalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_integration#Stages
“Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots down there stopped moving forever?”

It's the ultimate expression of looking down on the little people.
10AE FC driver here. I think you're way off.
Why not? It's a very pleasant drive up to ~150mph, beyond that it becomes a bit unstable in turns. Lamborghini is shaking up to 150mph and then it goes smooth as a butter (I drove over 190mph in turns on Autobahn at 2am, fantastic). 911 and Corvette C6 would be my first choices for a 1st sport car as they feel pretty nice and you don't kill yourself by a bad downshift.
"Don't be evil" seems to be more of a general guideline than a rule these days.
There are 3 agreements being negotiated TPP, TTIP & TiSA to set the economic structure of the world by US.
You're blowing things way out of proportion. I also disagree with dang's assessment of the situation but I can also understand being bothered by the quoted statement. I'm bothered with it because I strongly disagree with it - I think the US should be ashamed of its police forces but certainly do not "silently celebrate" when they are killed.
Large houses on large lots, quiet neighborhood, good schools, low crime. Essentially people raising kids. It's a paradise for some, pure hell for others. It's a shame that some, such as the author, believe their opinion is somehow superior. The reality is that is more about where someone is in their life (age, kids) that might drive where they might choose to live
I'm not sure what you're point is. The fact that Photoshop and Elements both sell well enough to continue their development kind of proves the point. If removing knobs didn't work, Elements would have failed. And in fact, there's a level in between - LightRoom which removes a lot of the functionality (knobs) of Photoshop, but keeps several bits important mainly to photographers. There are some users for whom the knobs work, but not for everyone.
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Some days I can't imagine a future where universal open access is implemented, at other times it seems inevitable.

Even if in the future universal open access is implemented, this will not solve the problem. To quote Aaron Swartz (https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...):

"The Open Access Movement has fought
valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure
their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But
even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future.
Everything up until now will have been lost.

That is too high a price to pay."
What are your geopolitical reasons?
This endorsement surprises me just because the TPP is so blatantly anti-consumer, pro-corporation.

I'm under no illusion that Google's anything other massive tech-savvy advertising company, but the self-serving corporate side of the company is usually hidden behind the pretty veneer of "tech for the people". Supporting a trade agreement like the TPP (especially given the lack of transparency in the process) lacks their usual subtlety.
To each their own. I've lived in cities and suburbs, and I personally greatly prefer the latter. I'm not alone - I promise.

It's fine if some, or even most, think that suburbia is hell on earth. Criticize suburbia all you like. Don't live there. Go someplace you enjoy. Also, try not to assume that your feeling on this matter is objectively correct.
have you ever created a successful and engaging app using your own science?
The Lexus SUVs that they have owned didn't do this. The tires for them were an odd size and usually had to be ordered, but all four wheels had the same size tire -- with standard (non-directional) tread. They still faced the "must replace all four" issue because of the full-time 4WD system, but at least they could be rotated to get full life out of them.

Which may be one reason why Lexus unexpectedly has a good total cost of ownership.

BTW, the Lexii had far fewer squeaks and rattles after 6 years than the Cadillac did, and had a much quieter ride overall.
Oh nice... but it wasn't that in 2009.. and there were some potentially embarrassing search terms display, scrolling past.. but sure, it was probably filtered at some point.
Sure, but shouldn't the 5/6/7 series then appear as the highest-cost models rather than the 328i?
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To a first approximation, if you are living in an area where most people live in separate single-family homes, but you are not surrounded by fields or orchards, you are living in a suburb.

If you are surrounded by fields, you're in a rural environment. If people around you live in multi-family structures, you are in an urban environment.

I'm sure there are more formal definitions, too.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google.)

One might describe it as a social botnet: somebody convinced a bunch of people to execute some code on their computer that sent automated search queries.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66357?hl=en

"Google's Terms of Service do not allow the sending of automated queries of any sort to our system without express permission in advance from Google."

Intentionally using a tool to send automated search queries is pretty clearly prohibited.
Maybe such solutions are only really obvious in retrospect!

Some of my favourites in this category are the Q Drum (a rollable water container) and the GravityLight (a lamp powered by gravity).

[1] http://www.qdrum.co.za
[2] http://gravitylight.org
That is simply not true. They require a job, sure. Anyone who can afford a new phone could at least with no credit rating or savings divert their pre tax salary into pension such that their net take home is small enough that they ain't buying tat.
You misunderstood the post you were answering.

Your answer doesn't help understanding how the article finds the average BMW maintenance cost to be higher than that of the BMW model with the highest maintenance cost. Unless brand costs are not calculated as a mean but something else very different, which is not explained.
> The linked case is about a celebrity worth quite a bit of money and still it wasn't enough to get the case decided in his favor,

AIUI he was pretty much insolvent at the time due to an expensive divorce.
My point is that only applies once the bounty has already worked to reduce the population to a low enough level. After that you can end the bounty and try other things.
Accusing suburbs of being lassez-faire is quite a miss, I think. There is quite a bit of subsidy, there are lobby groups for it, the very act of zoning itself is extremely political and the rents exploitation arrangement is quite...vivid. Throw in HOAs ( which are written into deed contracts ) and it's significantly less than free.

The George Romney inspired expansion away from the 20% down, 30 year mortgage to what ended in 2008 was an effort to tie people down to a mortgage for reasons of, roughly, social control. If you read Haber & Calomiris "Fragile By Design" - they're quite conservative - you get a better picture of it.

I love the suburbs. Because if I play my cards right, I get to be a beneficiary to much of all that.
This was my initial reaction as well. They don't want the world seeing the absolutely appalling, vile condition of its infrastructure and large portion of its population.
Considering she's being sued by Elsevier I don't fault her for not wanting to talk to any publishers. There probably isn't anything I can say that would convince her I'm not trying to entrap her in some way. But yeah, she's got an open invitation to an audience with the owners and upper management at SAGE, even if she just wanted to tell us off.
The free flow of information must be why they released this tidbit on Friday afternoon?

If they are so proud, surely a banner on Google is appropriate. It's for a good cause after all.
What are some alternatives to google search. I think I can get away from the rest of their products in the coming few months.
YEah I won't touch anything new Google provides to end users these days ...