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Really Batista is like an anti-Musk. I'm not sure I could find two billionaires(ex-billionaire) who were further apart.

Charlie Munger's quote I read in Poor Charlie's Almanack a really long time ago resonated with me pretty well when I saw Batista being interviewed on Charlie Rose years back. “Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures – they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths." * Since no copy of the book online, https://25iq.com/charlie-munger-book-to-date-chapters-1-5/
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No RV on display at Duxford, AFAIK, however here's a photo of a Chevaline REV.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y235/Section1/swiki/c1/Chev...

Apparently it was made of balsa wood! What I find interesting is that the REV was not the point/be all and end all of the system, the point of the system was that all the missiles and decoys that a submarine could fire would arrive over Moscow at once and co-ordinate their behavior to overwhelm the defense systems. Pretty amazing!
So much mis-information... I don't know where to begin.

And why did they have to go on and call out named PE groups...(Fortress).
What does that achieve NYT?

What is the goal of this in the first place...? If we want to educate people on what PE really does, let's talk. But this is clearly just targeting the masses with a one sided viewpoint to try and get them to associate 2008 again and raise their pitchforks back up. Accomplishes nothing.
This is great news.

Now that the transition is in full swing, it's encouraging to see more projects adopt a Python 3 First attitude.

I only wish Ansible would catch up (a recent release broke the core Python 3 support that was there, and no-one seemed to care as Py3 isn't yet officially supported).
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"The top 100 athletes in every sport could sit out the Olympics, and the TV ratings and corporate sponsorship would take only a slight dip."

Might not work. Remember the XFL? Arena football with lousy, underpaid players. Canceled after one season.
Well, if they made me register an account and agree to a ToS, I think it changes things. I have now signed an agreement, and the data is only delivered through an authenticated manner. But if it's publicly available, like a blog post, I don't see how you can place any restrictions on me. I think you are speaking about ethics, and you can try to convince me that my ethics are inferior to your ethics, and I can try to convince you that my ethics are better than your ethics, but that becomes a parlor game. Surely, a blind person has a need to display the data retrieved differently? Perhaps your ethics change for the disabled?

I've gone off topic, but the point is, if the ad-supported business model is failing, that's a problem for business to solve, not pleas to my "morality".
Do you really think people in Australia are afraid of totalitarianism?

Do you really guns are going to help, when the real threat is government overreach and the inaction of the populace? Keep electing "pro 2nd amendment" politicians who also happen to vote for the patriot act and support NSA spying.
> Since then we’ve been making sure that we could dissolve the company solvently by covering the debt personally.

Actions louder than words, etc. After reading this, there's no question that they're shifting a lot of the blame to Simon, but to me this action also shows they're aware of their own culpability in allowing it to get to that point.
You're right, it looks like my scheme is equivalent to a Vignère cypher with "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" as the key, with the weaknesses thereof. Thanks!
I believe it's the last-but-one release to support Python 2. Django 1.11 LTS (scheduled for release April 2017) is planned to be the final 2-compatible version.
https://www.djangoproject.com/download/#supported-versions
For others:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/django-admin/#cmdo...
Thanks very much. We've changed to that from http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/.
As someone who knows a couple athletes headed to the Olympics this summer: there is essentially no direct taxpayer support for Olympic athletes in the U.S.

The U.S. Olympic Committee was created by Congress and given exclusive right to the Olympic marks in the U.S. (the rings, flag, name, etc)--that is the extent of the federal govt. support.

Most of the USOC's revenues come from Olympic mark licensing deals, and other corporate sponsorships. There are some personal and foundation grants too. It's all private cash though.
So, you're one of those anti-free range children/helicopter parents I read so much about?

"A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4GwUD1UY8 . That's what the US was like when I was a kid. Were they all bad parents then?

As https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7YrN8Q2PDU points out, "By Western standards, Japanese culture emphasises independence and self-reliance from an extraordinarily young age." Do you think all of Japan practices child neglect?
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Near the equator you’re going to get minimal power that way, but further north or south you can get a fair amount of power on one side of a building assuming you’re not shaded by other tall structures. Street level in Manhattan for example gets less sunlight than you might think. You also run into a tradeoff with windows.
The first intelligent life to evolve will be able to colonize it's entire galaxy in a relatively short amount of time. The fact that Earth hasn't been colonized is pretty strong evidence to me that we are the first. To me at least.

Even if aliens chose to leave Earth alone for some strange reason, we still haven't observed any evidence of aliens elsewhere. No dyson spheres, no signals from space, no stars arranged in perfect geometrical patterns. Let alone visits from aliens, either to help us or hurt us.
Why? Are they off-planet?

It's either worth your time to walk/drive/fly over there and retrieve your property or it's cheaper to just build more. Which is it?
This. Sometimes I feel like such out-of-touch-with-reality 'logic' is why a lot a people don't trust science anymore.
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Code challenges for non coders? That's just adding entropy。
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Still interesting to think about this possibility.
Have you considered trying to contribute to a trendy and/or heavily used open source project? Especially one backed by a vendor?

If you start contributing useful bug fixes or features to Puppet, Chef, Cassandra, Spark, Mesos, Kafka, anything Hashicorp, etc. you're almost certain to be able to get a job working for the vendor(s) backing those technologies, or at the very least a company heavily reliant on those technologies, and you can probably side-step the intern/terrible-pay angle completely.

Especially if the vendor's market is less mature and stable and they're currently undergoing a growth-hiring phase. Databricks, Mesosphere, Confluent, etc.
> Firstly, I'm pretty sure REST implies a message-passing architecture. Correct me if I'm wrong.

It absolutely is, but afaik (correct me if I'm wrong here) it implies an origin. It relies completely on addressable and available resources. It relies on exactly-once semantics (POST) and round-trips. Message passing for me is more like the actor model: ephemeral information, at most-once delivery, references to computers (actors), not data, and most important: the message is centric, not the end-point.

Perhaps I'm understanding all of this completely wrong, I'm honest here, but the actor model for me means 'message passing orientation' and RESTful to me means 'resource orientation'.

> And you would ask for example.com/<userid>/static/X57pqr32.

I implemented more or less the same scheme in a message centric application for crypto. Larger objects such as photos and videos were encrypted and placed in a central storage (later design phase included DHT implementation). The receiver could decrypt the message at a later time, whenever the photo was visible in the app/webpage. The central server, however, was non the wiser, as all data was encrypted and without semantic information. Here it is interesting to note that, even though we use references (URIs), the resource is not identifiable, except for its SHA hash signature. There was no sense in saying: https://kanta-messenger.com/photos/1234abcd since there is no knowledge of 'photo' or 'video'. However, there is still representable state transfer (REST) going on, without any of the semantics.

> . Now all we need to do is build something to put JSONP in the ground...

Agreed

> By the way, did you look at Cap'n Proto and MessagePack?

We had two phases (since it takes quite a lot of time to research each data-exchange protocol). In the first phase, we evaluated on a couple of core criteria: Language support (Scala, Java, Python), no long-standing github issues, more than one core commiter. We reduced that to three protocols: protobuf, Flatbuffers and Apache Avro. To most of our surprise, the last one won. Why? Various reasons, one of them being the possibility to do reflection and search within encoded messages for which the receiver does not have a schema. For example, you might want to create a router which only routes messages which contain a certain header. Another is archiving: since the schema is always included, it is possible to decode messages years after they have been stored somewhere. A third one is forward- and backward-compatibility. All of them were close wins (4 vs. 5 stars), but it brought us to Apache Avro. Looking back on that decision, it was a good one. Many within the company are happy with the choice.
When I was the editor of Dr. Dobb's, we were very concerned about how to create a lively discussion forum that was free from jerks and unpleasant people. Ultimately, we settled on two components: treat everyone respectfully even those who seemed to be trolling, and delete all insulting posts. This largely worked. Similar elements seem to work here on HN too. That the efficacy of this approach is repeatable suggests that the problem exists primarily b/c sites are willing to put up with bad behavior.
Being privately owned isn't the same thing as being owned by private equity. And looking at the NYT it has Class A and Class B shares, where only the Class B shares are privately owned. The usual reason for dividing the shares into different classes is to give the owners of one class rights that the other class doesn't have. I'm not sure what, if any, differences there are between the NYT's Class A and Class B shares.
I'm not sure about the other databases, but in MS SQL you can include columns in the index leaves. This mitigates the need for the second lookup and can be even faster than the Postgres approach.
If you look at prospers default rate it was very high during the crash, but they blame it on underwriting. I think you need to take into account that when the economy crashes a lot of prospers customers, IMHO, will get hit first.
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> Speed of light is a barrier for intergalactic colonization.

The distance to Andromeda is about 20x times the diameter of Milky Way. But of course this is massively longer that hopping from a solar system to the next.
Some aspects of electromagnetism are better discussed in terms of complex analysis. I believe the first sentence is referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
The function e^(i x) is a (complex) sinusoidal oscillation when x is a real number, but is a (complex) exponential funciton when x is an imaginary number. The phrasing "in the direction at right angles in the complex plane" refers to the fact that the real and imaginary axis are perpendicular to each other.

I'm not sure about the second phrase. A contour integral is an integral over a closed path on the complex plane, and there's a theorem that says that if the function and the path have certain properties, the result of this path integral is just some coefficients (called residues). But I'm not sure how that's connected to the rest of the conversation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue_theorem
> If it's supposed to be investigative journalism.

It is not. It's just an infographic with a basic level of interactivity.

It doesn't claim to be an extensive or comprehensive report on the influence of PE in the US market and everyday life.

Just a reductionist overview of the topic, nothing more nothing less.
Yeah, it's basically a 10.0.0.0/8 network where any VM can talk to anyone in their same subnet. You'd have to do some iptables work in order to "lock down" your private net.
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Django has a time based release schedule [1]. The class based authentication views weren't committed until after the feature freeze for the 1.10 alpha.
"Slow" is not what I read from the benchmarks tho. :) I prefer to avoid edge cases by default and optimize hotspots if necessary. Especially for stuff I publish on PyPI. Likewise I don't care what people do in internal projects. :) It's just frustrating if you install a lib and stuff blows up. :|
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> When I see a company describe its “no asshole” rule, I see a company inclined toward calling people assholes.

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"In Wisconsin, for instance, the risk-score formula was developed by a private company and has never been publicly disclosed because it is considered proprietary. This secrecy has made it difficult for lawyers to challenge a result."

Shouldn't that on the contrary make it extremely easy for lawyers to argue that the score evidence should be thrown out?
I don't see how the free rider problem of public goods appliesin this case.

My understanding is the free rider problem would be Linus Torvald quitting linux(because a family member needs experimental medical treatment) to work in HFT for a big pay bump. Even though he creates $10 million of value with Linux he only captures 200k of that, but in HFT he would generate far less value and capture more. This reduction in economic output due to Linus being unable to capture the value he creates because of Linux "free riders" is the free rider problem.

Public funding of public goods is a fix to the free rider problem in economics because it means the value creators no longer need to capture the value they generate.(or as much anyway)
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> more like it's trying to rekindle hatred towards Wall Street than educating people

They did that on purpose. That's because NYT is left-wing newspaper just like The Guardian. Note that, socialist Paul Krugman is columnist for NYT.

The only job of Guardian, NYT, Huff Post and many others is to say negative about capitalism, private enterprise and free-markets. And to say positive about big government, wealth distribution and other left-wing agenda.

The same about Hollywood and entertainment industry (e.g. MTV), they are mostly left-wing.

I think left-wing ideas and left-wing propaganda completely monopolise western world (almost entire Europe, AU, CA etc).

It's sad but true.
They actually have 2 with 1 more to be released later in 2016 with a PK.
I'm still reading the article, so perhaps I am missing something. But it seems to me that Feynman was perfectly entitled to think in terms of point (really line) charges.

By Guass' law, an isolated cyclinder with constant voltage will look to the outside world exactly like a line of constant charge-density. One cylinder among many will be slighly different, because the corresponding line charge will have external voltages superposed. But as the radius of the cylinder approaches zero, those will vanish in proportion to the 1/r voltage from the central charge.

Now the author might have some other way of getting to the same result. But that doesn't mean Feynman's argument was wrong -- it was just different.
I don't think so. IMHO, it is even harder for Chinese company to come out than US internet company to go to China. The difficulty felt is mutual.
But the noise susceptible analog signal does not have to travel a long path, digital signal does. As such the power amplifiers do not have to be as power consuming/over designed. Moreover, you can do other stuff with the headset like taking multiple button inputs without additional wires.
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Well, just like the average individual voter, Facebook should have every right to convince and persuade people to vote for its candidate, by filtering the news.
Great question :) Frequency analysis is actually still pretty useful for ciphers more complicated than a monoalphabetic substitution cipher. Take a polyalphabetic substitution cipher (similar to the one you described), where a key is used to determine the offset for each character. In this example the key is ABC:

Key: ABCABCABCABCA...
Plaintext: MYNAMEISAARON...
Ciphertext: MZPANGITCASQN...

At first glance, frequency analysis would be useless against this ciphertext. But if you can work out the key length (in this case, 3), you can group every 3rd character together and then perform frequency analysis on each group, as we know each group as been encrypted with the same key, making frequency analysis relevant again.
Agreed. I just think it's sad that it actually took outside financing for a millionaire to participate in our legal system.
I want to emphasize the "or" in that last sentence -- everyone should read Mindstorms.
I just used https://termsfeed.com/ as suggested by someone. The cost was like $40 and I saved myself any potential headache.

You just check off the boxes of what you need and fill in a few fields and you get a nice somewhat customized TOC for your site.
Theranos' original big PR splash was when they got FDA 510k clearance on their finger stick test for a herpes (one of the herpes) test. This was a splash for several reasons. One of them was that it technically wasn't needed. At the time of the release, the finger stick test was classified as a 'lab developed test', and FDA rules at that time is that lab developed tests do not have to go through the same approval process of say of standalone diagnostic device or test that would be sold.

Essentially under old FDA rules, selling devices and tests were held to a higher level of scrutiny than selling testing as a service. This obvious loophole is in the process of being closed.

So assuming that they haven't completely fudged their original 510k submission, what Theranos does have is a finger prick test for herpes.

Detection of infectious agents from human samples is typically (not always) an essentially binary process. Many of the issues that we've been hearing about Theranos' tech is an inability to properly quantify (that is provide a number on a continuum) whatever they've been testing for.

It is possible that Theranos' tech as is is sufficient for certain types of infectious agents tests beyond herpes simplex. However, it's not at all certain. It'll be a very careful balance of what the sampling error (the fingerstick), the actual limit of detection (of the testing device), and what the clinically relevant threshold is (what concentration of virus/bacteria/antibody) matters.
That honestly sounds horrible. Your average CRM probably has a relatively complex data schema. Can you imagine expressing things that a CRM does in a single command line statement? Maybe a REPL would be realistic, but when you say command line do you mean a REPL or something like "crm --create-customer $name"
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