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>> "It doesn't do anybody any good if terrorists can move toward encrypted communication that no law enforcement agency can break into before or after. There must be some way. I don't know enough about the technology, Martha, to be able to say what it is, but I have a lot of confidence in our tech experts." - HRC

She wants to find a middle ground between encryption and intercepting communications without a backdoor solution. The thing is, there really isn't a balance here. You can't have secure encryption and allow access to outside parties. She'll have to make the choice between them, and it's very clear, even from your quote that she'll choose "our larger national security".
> Why does every HR department re-invent the wheel?

HR must justify its importance and value by making things hard.

It's frequently observed that HR is the bottleneck in the process. If line managers (as they often do with smaller, more nimble companies) took on the actual responsibility for recruiting & hiring-- you would find process much more amenable. Avoid HR, focus your job search efforts on speaking with the senior executive(s) who you can help.
I doubt it. If anything, C++, but even that doesn't seem likely. The vast majority of languages seem to be self-hosted. A good portion compilers or interpreters in C or C++ probably use (F)lex and Yacc/Bison so even saying C or C++ are the most popular choice (but not necessarily the majority) sounds like a stretch.
Alternately, it would have worked really well as a "Registered Report."

Cortex now offers a format where the paper is submitted in two stages. One first submits the introduction/background, methods, and proposed analysis, before collecting data. If the reviews are favorable, the paper is accepted, regardless of how the results turn out. There is a second round of reviews for the final manuscript to assess the quality of the data and ensure that the pre-determined analysis plan was followed. More here: http://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/PROMIS%20pub_idt_CORTEX%...

I've had a hard time selling collaborators on it ("TWO ROUNDS OF REVIEW?! Isn't one slow and painful enough?!"), but I really like this idea. It rewards interesting hypotheses and good experimental design, but avoids the ask-a-stupid-question-get-a-stupid-answer issue with null results.
I really don't understand the appeal of Robinhood... if you're going to hold stocks for years you really shouldn't be skimping on an $8 commission. Get a proper broker with a reputation.
__OK GOOGLE TELL ME JOKE__ didn't work.
1. If you're right 51% of the time when you invest you're going to get rich. Unfortunately the odds of you being right 51% of the time are incredibly low.
2. Heed Rule #1, and put most (if not all) of your money in broad market ETFs.
3. If you DO decide to actively invest, think about your strengths both in terms of character and industry knowledge and play to those. I don't know jack about healthcare and have had my head handed to me in Biotech because I am willing to hold through a lot of pain. What I AM good at is seeing strong secular trends in tech stocks and value discrepancies there. So most of my cash is in broad market ETFs, and I do a small amount of active investing in tech and telecom. And I work in Equity Research..

It astounds me that so many people think they can be great investors. It would be like me trying to build an ark with no experience in carpentry or ship-building. Really it just strikes me as a legal and socially acceptable way to gamble. Please recognize that this is a zero-sum game, and the other person taking your trade is likely a professional who spends their entire work week doing deep analysis.
I don't unfriend anyone on my FB list unless the account is fake or they are openly hostile. I've been able to debate childhood friends through their posts about racism, politics, gun rights, abortion, etc.

If your only friends are the people that agree with you you're going to be disappointed to find out how the real world operates. I'm black caribbean, my neighbour is a white, southern boy. He believes in the 2nd amendment, a Trump presidency, and the Iraq War. Just about every weekend we BBQ, drink a few beers, and talk shop.

Talking with him I've learned a lot. I knew that Trump was going to win the nomination months ago. He says a lot of things that don't get mentioned in the news, everyone would do well to get a transcript and not rely on CNN. Obamacare was more popular than politicians will lead you to believe, but it could be better we both agreed. And the both of us were surprised by how successful the Brexit campaign was. We both thought it was about the money.
That article for the Chronicle of Higher Education is so wrongheaded it's hilarious.

""Keep related words together" is further explained in these terms: "The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning." That is a negative passive, containing an adjective, with the subject separated from the principal verb by a phrase ("as a rule") that could easily have been transferred to the beginning."

Yes. That's the joke, dear Geoffrey. They are showing the violation to demonstrate its effect on a sentence. You have to be truly humorless if not willfully obtuse to read this as Strunk & White having no idea what they're talking about.

Strunk & White is self-critiquing, which is part of what makes it great—it's not nearly so prescriptive as the author seems to think.
100 years ago you would have probably mostly invested in the UK, French, German and Russian stock market as well as the US. So if you want to predict the next 100 years I would try to combine the performance of the UK and the US, on the assumption that US is going to behave economically like an existing power rather than an up and coming power.

Also, just as some risky "foreign" markets did awesome a hundred years ago-- that's what the US was to the investing world in 1900, and it did great-- some will do great over the next 100 years. Some will have wipe outs as Russia, Germany and Argentina did. The future is hard to know.

Really though, owning some vanguard funds is a good idea. I'd just hold on to a little real estate as well.
Potentially yes, but some hedge funds play the index dynamic by trading into or out of stocks before/after they are added.
I might even go as far as saying that passwords should simply not be stored at all anywhere.
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Surely Sim City be classed as being based around a crafting mechanic?
I highly recommend this reading this book. If you read it 5 years ago, I highly recommend re-reading it--the insights you have when you get reminded of things will surprise you.

I also recommend the book Difficult Conversations by the same folks who wrote Getting to Yes. It lays out a good model for better predicting what impact the things you say might have on other people.
Those are all Vanguard funds so you can trade those with Vanguard for free. You don't need Robinhood.
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Or the thought-games played by the Espers in The Demolished Man.

Personally I don't think the UI was planned out that much; maybe "it gradually got so" as the song says.

I think it's a bit like the qwerty keyboard. Maybe there was a rational for it at one point, but now it's just a thing you memorize and then don't think about much. In DF the 'loo(k)', '(v)iew', and '(q)uery' commands do similar but disjoint things which could easily be combined if Tarn really wanted to stop working on features for a while. Since he doesn't, it's just a thing that you memorize and then no longer need to think about; it becomes very much like touch typing.
tl;dr: so you haven't actually implemented a scale ops system, eh?

A) Shipping pre-packed boxes is not substantially easier. Order assembly/fulfillment is not the hard part of ops. Sort of like HTML is not the hard part of web development. It's just the part laypeople experience first-hand.

B) Birchbox is investing a lot in follow-on ecommerce sales of the same products they ship monthly anyways, so they don't get to make simplifying assumptions.

C) Birchbox is substantially harder than a traditional pick&pack setup. It's unique enough that they have to build their own model, makeup is perishable (so skus aren't fungible!), they have hundreds of small providers by design, and their sku set cycles fully every month or two.

Source: I built system & ops for a company with both a subscription business and substantial real-time eCommerce ops, which is comparable in size to Birchbox USA.
You dont get taxed until you sell. The performance shown here is for a buy and hold strategy.
a) Maybe just have Sci-Hub and/or ArXiv links? If you assume your audience is mostly professors, then they can get past paywalls and you can just link to a paywalled source.

b) Nested subtopics, good search, and mergeable threads so you can enforce one thread per paper? Do papers have ISBN numbers, or some equivalent?

c) Most professors have verifiable .edu email addresses, but this is going to take human effort and you'd have to decide how much of the .edu world you want to allow in.

d) Start with a very specific code of conduct, accept the fact some will be pissed off, have at least one full-time paid moderator? This will be tough, maybe the hardest part.

e) Network effects will do this for you within networks (so each subfield of academia will eventually migrate to one site, but you might be able to attract e.g. most of math but biology could be on a competitor). I would worry about this least.

I think this would work best apart from a paper-hosting site. The human costs and hosting costs will become expensive and it's easier to collect ad money if you stay legal. You might even able able to host this on a university network as ArXiv is, but this would make moderation more difficult because you'd be accused of bias towards that university.

I think PHP-BB has all of the technical features you would actually need. The moderation would be the hardest part IMO.
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>to push back on it in such an aggressive way.

Yes, a petition is really aggressive/s
I dont get the concept honestly. Is that post the ad? Am i supposed to sell ad spaces on my sites? Am able to buy ad spaces on other sites?
Is the graph broken?

It takes 10 seconds to settle, and for any year above 1960, some dots move to above 200K, but around 175K it remains empty. And the relative amounts are similar, invalidating the word "shifting" in the title.
> One gotcha is that you won't get any CSS this way, so all styling has to be done via SVG props.

There actually is a way to bake stylesheets directly into the SVG in a way that at least Inkscape can read, but it's tricky. We're successfully doing this in a graphing library tuned for genetic data that's built on top of d3 called LocusZoom.

The first step is to get the content of the stylesheet into a string. We do that here with a CORS request in case the stylesheet is being loaded over a CDN, as javascript won't be able to access the content of CDN-loaded stylesheets from document.styleSheets:

https://github.com/statgen/locuszoom/blob/v0.4.0/assets/js/a...

Since the stylesheet doesn't change once the page is loaded this only needs to happen once. From there, in our case, we have a dynamic/interactive SVG plot so the download needs to bundle up the current state of the SVG on request. Here's the method that does that:

https://github.com/statgen/locuszoom/blob/v0.4.0/assets/js/a...

Other than what no doubt looks familiar for pulling the raw SVG markup into a string we also insert a tag right after the opening <svg> tag that looks like this:

"<style type=\"text/css\"><![CDATA[ " + this.css_string + " ]]></style>"

Where this.css_string is our stylesheet content. We then base64 encode the string and stick in the href of an <a> tag styled to look like a download button as seen here:

https://github.com/statgen/locuszoom/blob/v0.4.0/assets/js/a...

The end result is a download SVG link/button that is 100% client-side with our chosen stylesheet embedded.

Now, I have noticed that some styles defined in the stylesheet are valid in the browser but fail in InkScape and other SVG viewers. A prime example would be setting a stroke or fill to "transparent". InkScape doesn't interpret this properly and you can end up with solid black, just about the exact opposite of transparent. Keeping this in mind I stick to defining explicit "fill-opacity" and "stroke-opacity" values in the stylesheet for SVG elements and everything plays nice.

A working demo of this can be seen here: http://statgen.github.io/locuszoom/plot_builder.html
I'm in the exact same boat with you with regards to bureaucratic and slow central organization. I and the other team members complain about this constantly. We've escalated the issues to everyone we can, but progress is non-existing or really, really slow.

My advice to you is to let it go. It is not your problem [1]. Do your best under the circumstances. That's all you can do anyway. No amount of bitching will fix it.

Escalate up the "command chain". Concentrate on constructively outlining what the issues are and how they're affecting your deliverables and how you feel about your work. Don't bitch. Don't point fingers, just document the facts, be factual. Don't speculate on the reasons why things are slow or bureaucratic. If you can phrase things in a way that convincingly point out what the affect of all these issues is to the business (slower pace of innovation, cedeing opportunities to more nimble competitors, product quality issues, increased employee turnover, etc.), the better.

After you've escalated the issues to someone, check back with the person periodically to see if anything's being done to address the issue. If you don't see adequate progress within an acceptable timeframe, make up your own conclusions. I've already more or less made up my mind that I will never work in an environment like this again. The amount of time I'm wasting comes with an extremely high personal opportunity cost, IMHO.

1. If, however, you are in the position to solve some of these problems, then try and do that. You probably aren't.
A similar issue is for the commodity hardware handed out to developers. The desktop setup gets standardized to the lowest common denominator, managers/IT do not get the argument that saving 1k on a developer's desk setup is not good business practice.

I get the same kind of hardware as a developer/researcher than a secretary, some low-end lenovo laptop with a single standard sized screen, running the same IT-provided windows image with performance-crippling endpoint and scanner software. All my development happens through a VM which connects to a remote server, via ssh/emacs tramp. Of course this invites the argument 'you are using your desktop as a terminal anyway, why do you need something more powerful'.
Having spent my entire career in the chip industry designing and defining chips, I'm still amazed year after year.
In this case, your svg/png/jpg files.
Why are hackers targeting healthcare?
"Let us help you make your password more secure by sending it over the wire a gazillion times."
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As far as I've been able to tell, after 20-odd years of software development and system administration, the only difference is that you have to pay for proprietary software and you can't change anything even if you know where the problem is.

Literally, the only difference is the license.
What tech stack do you use?
Parsing is the smallest part of writing a compiler.
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The powers that be have a track record of dishonesty. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... You can't get fooled again."
If there is an inserted CA then I believe any cert from any website can be MITM'ed and there are appliances that do this.

From PaloAltoNetworks website:

"... firewall proxies outbound SSL connections by intercepting outbound SSL requests and generating a certificate on the fly for the site the user wants to visit."
> stop caring about being right

This is either bad advice, or poorly phrased. There are many domains where being right actually really does matter. Engineering is one of them.

But being right is very very different than getting the last word. It involves a lot more listening.
Nvidia?
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It is a rotary engine but it is distinct from the Wankel rotary engine.
That has a much higher barrier of entry, though. If I work on a project written in Blub, I won't be able to do any metaprogramming unless I can get everyone else to adopt my Blub++ compiler. If the software is written in Lisp, all I have to do is get it through a code review.

In effect, it's not really scaling; it's being limited to the small portion of developers who work on compilers.
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Honestly, I think eventually a central question of our time will become whether or not it is ethical to turn off dwarf fortress.
> When the Raspberry Pi computer was first launched [..] its creators probably didn’t imagine the $35 device would one day take on a professional fighter pilot in a dogfight—and win. [..] But that is exactly what a doctoral graduate at the University of Cincinnati set out to do [..] he built a Pi-powered artificial intelligence pilot.

Did you read the first two paragraphs?
> It's interesting that the author pursued a degree in literature and that's what ultimately pushed her away from that career path. It seems to be a common theme where a formal education in creative arts makes people want to do something else in life, anything else.

I can only speak for myself, but I have a MA in literature (creative writing and poetry specifically) and am now a developer. The career path for that type of degree is often teaching and I wanted to be creative. Developing allows me to remain creative day to day. So while it may seem like I've moved away from my original field, I actually feel much closer to it compared to when I was teaching.
Agreed that pixel density is an issue, but that can be worked around via supersampling. I just saw the guys at /r/vive discovered a global supersampling setting. Someone post this before and after:

http://imgur.com/a/uDTwP

Of course, the issue now is GPU horsepower. Rendering two viewports at 1200x1080 at 90fps is no easy task. Supersampling at 2x means rendering 2400x2160 per eye at 90fps. Anything short of a 1080 is going to have performance issues at this level of supersampling, and even then it depends on how complex the game environment is and its settings. I messed around a bit with BigScreen and I can certainly see the potential for VR as monitor replacement for $some_tasks. I have yet to see supersampling settings for it or if these global settings affect 2D screen projections in 3D space.

So yes, current densities might be enough to get by without fuzziness and hard to read text if you have enough GPU muscle. I don't think we've figured out all the tricks with first gen VR yet. There are going to be a lot of little surprises like these I suspect. At the very least we know AMD and Nvidia are supporting performance enhancing features that no one has really implemented yet.[1] I suspect the Vive of June 2016 is going to be a very different experience compared to the Vive of December 2016. The same way console launch games don't look as good as games released towards the end of the console's life.

[1] Yesterday one of the PoolNationVR devs said he got a 20% performance increase using Nvidia's Multi-Res Shading. This change goes live in July. A 20% performance increase at no cost? Crazy.
You would've bought Russian stock in 1916?
If we make the assumption that they follow the generally accepted best practice for managing money, and put aside 20% of their income for a year, both people are homeless after 2 months.

Spending 50% of your income on a house is simply financially irresponsible, no matter your income. That's at a minimum 20% of your income that is going into a black hole that could be going into savings or investments.
Somewhat disappointed that it isn't an electrical engine.
http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417
Maybe everyone there should start doing that? Even an individual could provide free wifi but route it through a foreign VPN service.

For that matter, with a law that stupid I'm surprised the major ISPs there aren't making hay by offering a VPN service with your internet account and integrating it into their broadband routers.
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Around 2000 we used to sell free (or almost free computers) that served ads. I suspect this will have the same fate.
I kind of don't like them since they failed to deliver on their 64 core board.
It's amazing and I will link the phpStorm/webStorm but as I am looking I am pretty sure it has been ported to all the IntelliJ products and even more.

The only down side is it's not great on looks but honestly it's a popup to tell you a shortcut so it fits well for the purpose

"Key promoter"

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4455
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Congratulations, Nathan – and thanks for continuing to be so transparent with how you run your business. It's inspiring, instructive, and just plain generous of you to share so much.
Moda was still around 60ish 70ish, while now it's 80ish 90ish

http://nfs.unipv.it/nfs/minf/dispense/patgen/lectures/files/...

and 60ish is when old age maladies really starts kicking in, plus at those times you just died of oldness, whatever the actual cause was.
> There are many people that don't want to be a collaborator because they don't enjoy dealing with software.

Yes. Definitely true. Also, there are people/organizations who do enjoy dealing with software but don't have the time/resources to work on a particular piece of software that they need and use (because, for example, their core business focus is on some other area.)

For them, too, it makes economic sense to buy it, even though they are capable of doing the work themselves given enough time.
Well for one, it's about disruption and change. The creators are more than familiar with brokerage, and it shouldn't be a shocker that most brokers do not operate trades, it's mostly electronic.[1] If you're going to hold stocks for years, why not skimp on an $8 commission? If you make a purchase of 100 shares of $FB, it could save you at least $800 for that sale.

So the real question is, why not?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwpQpFqzoAE
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Implying Hackernews us not a bubble... Ok
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Once upon a time there was something of an educated, intelligent middle-class who put some hand into managing and editing information for the masses who didn't have that much time or capacity of questioning and learning everything themselves.
Call that education, call it manipulation, call it journalism. It doesn't matter.

Fact is: that management is gone. Anybody can spread anything now and most people aren't getting any smarter amidst that hurricane of information, most of it charged in a highly negative way. They get scared, angry and numb.
If this is implemented as non-obtrusively as it is on the kindle, than I could get behind this.