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> Points near the origin have dark colors, with the color assigned to a complex number z approaching black as z approaches 0. Points far from the origin are light, with the color of z approaching white as |z| approaches infinity. Every complex number has a different color in this picture, so a complex number can be uniquely specified by giving its color.

So I was wondering if this approach could also be useful in the context of floats and integers. The implementation becomes simpler in many ways (we only have a finite number of possible values to consider).

For example, start with a unique mapping of 8-bit integers to a continuous colour ramp. I suppose the easiest option would be to start in the top left, then go from left to right, top to bottom, resulting in a 16x16 image.

If we then take a formula that also returns an 8-bit value, map every possible input to an output, and show the results as an image, it should make it easy to see where we have an integer overflow, for example (if we see sudden jumps from very bright to dark or the other way around).

Then I realised: I have seen this in the wild! It's used all over the place in the demo-scene. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRPUv8V22o

http://wurstcaptures.untergrund.net/music/?oneliner=((t*(%22...

Aside, this also reminds me of Gustafson's closure plots for comparing his number encoding to standard floating points, although it's not really the same thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y&t=33m47s
First of all, this thread is fantastic. If I wasn't designing and building interfaces, I'd love to give industrial design a shot. There are so many seemingly mundane things that we take for granted. Here's a few favorites:

YETI Rambler - 20oz

http://yeti.com/rambler

I've owned so many different insulated coffee mugs, but this is by far the best I've owned. What's particularly interesting to me about this one is the open top, I can drink from it like any to-go coffee, but the temperature stays warm for hours. Alternatively, I've filled it with ice and water and had the ice last my entire workday.

—

Mochi Drawstring Backpack

https://www.mochibrand.com/

Drawstring backpacks tend to be pretty fickle. Often they get tangled, jam and break. I've had a Mochi drawstring back for the last three years and love it. The strings are much thicker on the Mochi. I'm not sure what is different about the design of the strings, but I have not once had a jam—not in three years.

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Withings WiFi Scale

http://www.withings.com/us/en/products/new-scales

Ever since I wrestled in high school, I've been obsessed with my weight. Maybe it is a little compulsive, but I weigh myself two or three times each day. Withings has an app keeps track of your weight, body fat percentage and BMI over time. I find it fascinating to see the fluctuations and averages. You can see what the app looks like here.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/health-mate-steps-tracker/id...

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Logitech K750 Solar Keyboard

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-solar-keyboa...

I'm certain everyone here has their own opinions about keyboards. I'm a huge fan of the Logitech solar keyboard. I got sick of changing the batteries on my Apple keyboard every few months so I bought this keyboard. What's amazing is that even a room with very little light, the thing has been running without issue.

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Timex Weekender Watch

http://www.timex.com/men/collections/weekender/

Watches are pretty subjective, but I think the weekender is a fantastic buy for the money. You can generally find them for $30 to $40. You can purchase a few different nato bands, and it's like you have several different watches! One caveat is that the watch is incredibly loud. I love it because it reminds me of the clock at my grandmother's house in the country. If you're sensitive to loud watches, it's probably not the right one for you.
All the way to Intel and into debt is what you're implying here, yes?
these are the specs on an ASUS motherboard.
All of Tom Bihn's bags are of the utmost highest quality, and they last for years. The inner seams are sealed with ribbon sewn over them so the edges of the fabric will never fray and tangle with your cables. So many other little touches like that.

They're so durable and timeless that I bet there are a lot of Bihn Bags out there from the George W Bush era whose washing instructions are once again relevant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/washing-instructions-idi...

Wash with warm water.
Use mild soap.
Do not use bleach.
Do not dry in the dryer.
Do not iron.
We are sorry that our president is an idiot.
We did not vote for him.
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He got extradited on bogus and far-fetched premises, I don't think he's going to win. The US wouldn't pull all these strings to get him extradited just so he could have a fair trial.
It's worth pointing out that such charges can stem from a pretty wide variety of actions. Look at Aaron Schwartz - he had access to JSTOR and tried to download all the files there. So they block his IP, and he spoofed his ID and tried again. They charged him with wire fraud for this.
I agree that this sounds more like "volatile", but it still makes sense that programmers should be able to rely on atomic operations for inter-thread communication.

According to the comments on the bug report, this behavior is inspired by C++'s <atomic> library, which guarantees cross-thread visibility.
why were you trying to learn math? perhaps the problem can be attacked by trying to understand the problem math is helping with.
> which would allow copies of notes to automatically exist, and the user would not even have to worry about their storage provider going away.

How is that true? Not citing it's not, just asking.

In my understanding of IPFS, longevity of something is just a byproduct of it's popularity. If you're writing unpopular notes, then it would inherently have no longevity, right? Ie, if no one else has read your note, then when your storage goes down so does your note.
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You can also buy commercial grade all stainless models that have single timer nob and one or two power option buttons. Amana makes the RCS10DSE.
> I forgot to mention that it has exposed metal surfaces in the interior (doors, mainly) that are integrated parts of the car. Not only does it look fantastic, each of those panels is one less plastic piece that will eventually require an expensive replacement when it inevitably gets hit/scratched/exposed to too much sunlight/shakes itself to pieces.

> I don't know why more cars don't feature this (one review called them "cheap exposed surfaces", as if plastic is somehow fancier), but it's incredibly durable, simple, and attractive.

I rode in a Nissan Tsuru taxi in Mexico. While the car's appalling safety record is definitely undesirable, I was impressed by the same idea of simplicity. It striped away pointless trim and features that will break, and was simply a tool to get you dependably from one place to another. It seemed like the sort of vehicle that could be maintained with an adjustable wrench and screwdriver for a million miles.
Can you explain in what ways it is simpler to change 1 to 2 in the first case? Is it that you are mutating them via script and it seems more "normal" to mutate a property of a tag instead of the tagname?

Or is it because it might have a named closing tag and you have to update both?
That's some major bullshit in law. If one hosts a server in Russia that someone uploads copyrighted content to, should they be extradited to Russia to be criminally charged? What the fuck.

Money talks. That's what's going on here.
Sorry, I'm not up to speed on copyright infringement penalties in the US. Do you have examples of people who have been given life imprisonment for criminal copyright infringement? As I read it, the Wikipedia page says max five years for a first offense and max ten years for a second or subsequent offense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Copyright_Law_in_the_...
Pariah is a perfectly valid and non-offensive word.
Quality Devs and Coding Contests
Which Password Manager Do You Recommend?
Do you recommend using a password manager versus not using one? Why? Which one do you use/recommend? Why?
It is strange, the atomic package[0] exposes various low-level atomic functions but none of them seem to take ordering arguments and the docs don't mention a default order either.

Atomicity and ordering constraints are orthogonal, so you can have an atomic add but relaxed ordering, which allows the compiler to do lots of optimizations on those adds, presumably to the point where they are optimized out completely.

If this is the cause it seems like pretty bad API design to not expose the flags on low-level library functions. Even high level languages like java expose them[2]

[0] https://golang.org/pkg/sync/atomic/
[1] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order
[2] http://download.java.net/java/jdk9/docs/api/java/lang/invoke...
it was a civil suit, not a criminal trial. Ellen Pao was the plaintiff. The jury determined she didn't make a convincing case.
+1 for Snowplow's approach. If you have an app out there in the wild (with autoupgrades off for at least 10% of devices), there isn't such a thing as "we'll do a hard cutoff for our tracking data". Their way, the data is versioned in self-describing contexts so they are separated from JavaScript tracker to database (two different tables), and you can write an ongoing migration between the tables. Very helpful.
"remote authentication" feature :))
Simply use <strong> or <em> to let the browser know that your heading is important.
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I bought a copy of Office 2010 Home and Student a few years ago from a brick and mortar store. I tried to install it a few weeks ago and got the message that I installed it too often (which perhaps I did because I only need it once a year and I use Linux, so I always install it in a throwaway virtual machine).

The installer told me to call a number but it looks like they disabled that number and they are currently in the process of setting up a new system. Meanwhile I can't use my legit copy...
So, just downvote and move on with your ignorance intact? OK.
Would prevent Rowhammer attacks.
There are a few small-scale case studies done on human subjects, but they're fairly recent. I was just reading one late last year on ~10 subjects. The experimental group (5-6 patients) had equal or better response to chemo and experienced fewer side effects than the control.

For obvious ethical reasons, though, I think they can only do this with patients with a terminal prognosis. Nevertheless, in my experience, you'd get a lot of volunteers from anybody undergoing chemo.
> Moves like what Autocad did to you are why large companies are using libre software

Ironically, this is also why some DON'T use libre software. They question what happens when the maintainers stop.
IMO company culture has to come from the top or at least be enforced from the top, because when there's a lot of pushback or things going wrong there needs to be a clear authority who can determine who or what is "right".

From the claims, if you can go all the way up to the CTO and still not have a resolution then it's beyond hope at that point. They can't claim ignorance. In this case they valued performance > integrity.
I watch all of my TV through it.

I buy box sets from Amazon Video and watch them (which has to be laptop). My girlfriend watches a lot of BBC iPlayer, we both watch Netflix. On occasion I'll download something and it'll happily stream from my phone (Localcast) or laptop (Videostream).
No, we need to be able to create our own custom elements as needed and share them in an ecosystem of components.
I suspect that Intel would offer hardware nearly at cost to convince them to do otherwise.
I don't like conspiracies but i always thought that he is just the puppet put there by part of the party, and then get rid of him and look like the saviors of USA and in the way clean the deep state of his enemies or at least from the ones that they don't like or submit .
> No one got ever fired for buying Intel

Exactamently. Even if Ryzen has a way better performance/price ratio than Intel, it's a risk:

* risk of losing favour with Intel or vendors (aka getting "renegotiated contract")

* support risk

* less coherent hardware risk

* software compatibility risk

Ryzen is lot of risk, and the reward is not huge because at the end of the day CPU is a pretty minor investment. Unless Intel completely fucks up a generation as they did with P4 few company will be willing to take that risk. Hell even then most companies remained on the Intel ship.
No absolutely not. To learn something, you learn by doing. Writing code is doing, reading code is like learning math by reading how others have solved math problems rather than work on math problems yourself.
If a particle is strictly a point like entity then we expect it to be localised. In space. And that means an observation which probes somewhere it isn't shouldn't affect it.

However, single photon double slit experiments don't show this - the particles act as though they are interfering with each other even though a photon detector will show photons arriving one at a time, at a rate which shows only one photon could have been traversing the apparatus at a time.
Sori Yanagi ice cream spoon

https://www.amazon.com/Sori-Yanagi-Cream-Spoon-6pcs/dp/B0000...
And even more so by handing over the hard drives to the FBI without proper authority or judicial review.
If you are using mac, try reeder(http://reederapp.com/mac/). It syncs with a lot of online rss readers (I use feedly and instapaper). But where it shines is its UX. It does what you need without any fluff and does it elegantly. All essential parts are there without showing million buttons. Keyboard shortcuts also work perfectly. It is the only app that I didn't feel any need to change settings after the first time.
I think that's what Javascript is for...
Linux will (thankfully) never do that because that would be an example of compromising technical quality for political reasons (mediating the problem that hardware makers are not publishing source).
There is pretty much no free CAD software that can compete with AutoCAD. The problem starts with the DWG format is based on proprietary RealDWG that they license to vendors. Free software will not be given a license.

The problem migrates to AutoCAD being like C++ and having a long list of legacy objects that are never broken.

A competing format was headed by Bentley with OpenDWG but they abandoned it somewhat after RealDWG gave in to giving them the doormat for free.
I'll tell you my core principle: you should be able to use your property in any way you see fit, provided it doesn't directly interfere with others using theirs.

Dumping toxic waste does directly interfere, but AirBnBing, long term leasing or Grindring to a non-white person does not.

Feel free to follow this principle and see if you can derive any conclusions from it that I don't support. If so, I'll recognize that my argument is flawed and retract it.

What's your core principle that I can follow as far as it leads?
Are there even enough women there to form a class?

There's no legal minimum but it's more difficult to form a class with a handful of people.
Oh, definitely you don't need much more than vanilla Python for playing around and test things. The only thing that you may need is a good tokenizer (i.e., to know where you should break the words), but the regex in [0] was good enough for what I needed. I was working with texts for three different languages (EN, DE and PT), and that is the reason I recommend statistical approaches, as they tend to be language independent.

[0] https://github.com/joaoventura/WikiCorpusExtractor/blob/mast...
Smartphone Addicts Behind the Wheel Drive Car Insurance Rates Higher
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A good rule of thumb for using spreadsheets vs. a programming language/database is to only limit the amount of data in the datasheet to what you can perceivably scan with panning/scrolling around the spreadsheet, otherwise there will be a lot of inefficiency/performance issues when organizing/analyzing the clump of data, which is bad in the long run.

A fair limit is 1,000 rows in a sheet, which is enough for most utilitarian use cases (e.g. daily-aggregated data for a year), and certainly enough for bespoke models. I would not recommend using spreadsheets for Kaggle competitions, though.
Not completely, since those can produce multi-bit flips.
> No one got ever fired for buying Intel

Even after the whole kerfuffle about Intel paying off OEMs? [0] They got some pretty huge fines for that.

But in all seriousness, I think that if Ryzen can hit the perf/watt numbers of Intel, companies will seriously look at purchasing AMD systems again.

Back in the NetBurst days, lots of people were buying Opteron servers because they kicked the pants off Intel. If AMD can prove their competitive with Intel again in the data center market, people will buy their chips.

Competition is always good, even for large enterprise, and if the TCO of an AMD Ryzen system becomes on par with Intel, enterprise will happily pit them against each other in a price war. Enterprise will absolutely buy from both.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/23/technology/dell_intel/index....
> With MS Excel failing to offer optimum results and performance, organizations across the business landscape are in search of better tools and technologies to bring out insights from mere numbers. With the advanced data visualization tools mentioned here, they will have perfect opportunities to leverage the power of information and data.

Who writes like this in 2017?
How do you replay a response that no longer happens? The server is down.
The nuclear plant worry is an unrealistic trope. Most Western nuclear plants have a very robust containment dome that can handle the impact from an airliner.

https://www.nei.org/News-Media/Media-Room/News-Releases/Anal...
> > You cannot compare the current state of things, beholden to reality, with a utopian implementation of some currently non-existent thing.

This feels like a fallacy worthy of a name. Does it have one?
Great news, that's exactly what we have!
Somewhat inspired by Okami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloCD06QjiE
If you happen to run across some really good acid, of even if you're feeling sober and playful, try putting a York Peppermint Patty in the microwave until the alien hatches.
Best boot on the world for varied, highly intense outdoor work is the Meindl Army Gore Pro Boot.

If you take care of them they seem to last forever. Mine have survived over 14 years of infantry exercises and still survive.

http://www.meindl.co.uk/products/army-pro
can someone who bought one of these when they used to be exclusive share your thoughts? Do you still use these? What are your thoughts?
You can't change a tag name with a script. You have to destroy it and create a new one, being sure to copy attributes and the inner html, then, inserting the new one in the right spot. That's not only more work at a script level, I assume it's much more disruptive at a browser internals perspective regarding reflow, etc.

Using an attribute would also allow you to programmatically get the nested level from the dom if the browser had "levelled" the <h> tags on it's own. Lacking that, I don't think you could tell what the browser ended up doing.

Edit: It basically comes down to whether you're okay with the browser auto calculating the level of <h>, and then not having any programmatic access to what it decided. If you don't care, then <h> without an attribute works fine.
The problem is trying to get browsers and readers to give them appropriate treatment.
Funnily enough, the quote “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” was originally related to the rising popularity of tabloids reaching for the low hanging fruit, compared to more traditional newspapers.

http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/09/no-one-ever-went-brok...

Actual quote: "“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
I don't disagree, but academia and government (which I realize are not always separate from corporate R&D) are enormous drivers of scientific progress. There's a lot of quackery out there which I think erroneously magnifies the conspiratorial suppressive power of the pharmaceutical industry.

My argument is simply this: doctors need more leverage to use cutting edge research in their practice. I am not in the medical field, and I don't know exactly how to accomplish this, but must surely lose a lot of organic ground-level experimentation at individual doctor-patient mutual consent, which would generate a wealth of epidemiological data with which to move medicine forward. It deprives patients of certain medical alternatives, and doctors of part of their scientific capacity as experimentalists.

The entire field of vaccinations began from an observation of smallpox immunity in the Turkish country side where folk wisdom was to rub scabs into superficial wounds of healthy children. When western doctors observed a stark decrease in the infection rate, this began experimentation that became the foundation of the modern practice. I don't think that this could be done today.

The extreme counterexample is the Tuskegee experiment, but the key element missing there was patient awareness of their own participation as an experimental control.
I'm Finn, coming from the land of Fiskars and axes. And I have to disagree with Fiskars. The axes are very good for chopping wood, but that's it. If you are serious backpacker, craftsman, carpenter etc, you wan't to use your axe in different ways too. The biggest "chopping" axe from fiskars is too short for building a fire that would keep you warm for the whole night. All of their "splitting" models have unnecessarily heavy head which you don't want to haul while backpacking. And the vedge thing in splitting models mean that it's very tricky to sharpen poles that you could strike to ground for a tent. And you can't use the axe as a hammer or you lose that sweet 25 year guarantee. And you can't swap the handle of a chopping axe for a longer one.

It's very good tool for one spesific job. There are axes that are good for range of jobs.
Some djing/music related stuff:

Roland 808/909
Technics 1200 MK2
A&H Xone mixer serie
Shure SM58
Ikea Expedit
Why would she expose herself to libel laws? Why would she risk her career? Is she not capable of describing her experience and be seen as a witness to her own treatment?
The effects on mood and brain function is pretty much an established benefit. "... studies have built on decades-old research establishing a connection between caloric intake and brain function."

http://www.johnshopkinshealthreview.com/issues/spring-summer...

As someone that USE TO (Why is it you have more self-discipline in your 20s then your older years???) Fast about once a week for 24 hours (supper to supper). There are many positive benefits as a person when you go past 3 days also. There are plenty of studies out there about fasting and its benefits and risk. People who have never done more then 3 days nor have read scientific research seem to see this as a negative. The human body can go for more then 40 days without food so a few days actually has very little negative "malnutrition" issues.

The stomach takes about 3 days to shrink after that has finished you actually don't really feel hungry and surprisingly you would be shocked at the spike in energy and focus you get for the days 4-10. Longest I have ever done was 10 days but man food explodes with flavor. One of my favorite things is after coming back to food everything taste better and is more enjoyable.