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The neutral position is that people who are better at something even by relatively small amounts will receive outsized rewards for it. Are you trying to claim that people are not legitimately better than others at a variety of activities? There's nothing moralistic in observing that - it's really just a fact. Some people are, for example, "better" swimmers than others. Some sports franchises are better than others, etc.

That is the sense the author used the word "better" in - to describe the initial cause that results in a power law distribution. He never praises people for accumulating wins and outsized rewards, he merely observes that it is the case. "Better" in this sense is not being used to describe classes of people, it's being used to describe small advantages.

If anything, the author is probably doing the opposite of your claim here, in that he would probably agree a lot of the reward is due to initial luck. If I observe that people who inherit wealth are more likely to accumulate more wealth, am I implicitly defending that phenomenon?

EDIT: For whoever is doing so - I don't mind if you downvote me, really. But several of my comments have just been downvoted once or so without any actual reply. If you disagree, you should consider engaging in a proper response. Letting my comments stand may as well be conceding the point, and if you actually have a persuasive counter it's certainly not going to help the discussion (or your stance) by keeping it to yourself.
Will a more qualified woman be passed over for a less qualified man, yet again?

Probably as these leaks are about 4 days to late.
Yes, and usually when I run into an elemental ice golem in a dungeon, it's because the bad guy has put it there as a trap for the good guys and walked away.

There is a sense in which you can call Wikileaks neutral, sure. But that doesn't mean that they actively ensure that they are politically neutral. Quite the opposite! They are uncaring. If one side feeds Wikileaks and not the other, Wikileaks will be 100% neutral in not shifting that balance. If anti-globalist forces consistently hack globalists and not vice versa and give that info to Wikileaks, sure, Wikileaks is going to say "We just want to expose more," but the set of information being exposed is extremely non-neutral!

I would rather not have an elemental ice golem at all, I think. And if I'm going to have an elemental ice golem, I would definitely prefer one that only attacks the bad guys than one that attacks "everyone" who happens to be in the secret entrance to the bad guys' lair.
You honestly believe that? There's a pattern in the past year of Wikileaks only exposing one side.
Do you really think le Pen is different in this regard? I mean, look at her dad. It boggled my mind during the US election that people thought the Republicans were not up to all the same dirty tricks just because their emails were not leaked. When there is asymmetrical information, I'd be very hesitant to form sweeping opinions.
At this point, I'm not sure that's indicative of anything. With all of this The Russians are coming! noise that's been spewed out over the past year, it strikes me as the first thing you'd do to deflect casual attention would be to plant some Cyrillic text in a place that looks suspicious.
So far it's not gaining a lot of momentum. And beside a large phoning campaign that is a bit low, I didn't see anything really nasty or even controversial. Nothing like paying your bodyguard as a parliament aid while he never landed foot in said parliament or your office.

Time will tell.
I'm from that generation and still cringe every time I hear a Bob Seger song, which is far too often still. There is an annoyingly whiny quality that pervades his lyrics and singing style.

On the other hand, I can relate to the sense of loss of music that was seemingly always available at the time but that I never got around to purchasing. There is no current good service or seller that has a suitably complete catalog.
How did you market your product? Did you target existing customers of your competitor?
I haven't gotten to give PS more than a cursory look but the row polymorphism and structural typing seems to really compliment JS semantics.
I don't understand the author's confusion as to how a ship wreck could quietly be lifted without a trace, we were doing it in the Cold War. Granted back in 1974 [0] such a project was very expensive but GPS and ship stability has gotten cheaper/better and these war ships are not nearly as deep. The oil and gas industry uses GPS stabilized vessels during exploration and production. This shouldn't be that hard for a determined scavenger.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
In years past I would agree with you, then they started pushing pizzagate. Wikileaks is venturing into Alex Jones territory.
Because that's the way internet works and breaking it means breaking a lot of websites. Web security wasn't thought carefully when web was built, it's just a bunch of dirty hacks around most obvious vulnerabilities.
I think you should clarify and mention that it doesn't glow at all. As a side note this is rather easy to google the OPs question that is.
This looks really cool! It looks much more feature rich and UX-friendly than any similar tools I've ever seen.

I can't wait to poke around this a bit more. It also uses the same stack I'm planning to use on my next personal project (Django + React).
Do you have a source for that? My friend's company was the target of a huge smear campaign orchestrated by WikiLeaks, purely because they shared an address with a different company and had the word "Data" in their name.

The only people I know who would think WikiLeaks is infallible and an asset to society are frequenters of The_Donald and the conspiracy subreddits.
IoT doesn't have to be on the public Internet. It can be hardware that gets data and streams on local wifi. My project[1] does that - streams guitar to a phone via wifi. It uses standard iot hardware - this has been a revelation, we did zero hardware design and just used off the shelf dev boards and custom firmware to get a prototype done.

[1] www.riffpod.io
None of your examples are fatalities from bacteria/vira that haven't eveolved for millions of years.
Most cops never have any reason to fire their weapon. Being a police officer is a relatively safe profession. Everyone they have contact with has legal rights.
These are not designed to be portable, though demountable/removable ones certainly exist nowadays. At both of my houses in Sydney when growing up, they were set in the ground in concrete.

So, I am not surprised you'd never see these anywhere outside of a generally sunny climate. Space is also a factor - the average yard size in Australia is far larger than that of the UK, though it is shrinking in the major cities.

The handle certainly helps to prevent head injuries when mowing the lawn around them. I've hurt myself a few times after forgetting to wind ours back up.
[WikiLeaks has stated repeatedly that they publish everything they receive.][1] Blaming them for failing to release information from the other side assumes that they have that information to release.

[1]: https://theintercept.com/2017/04/19/intercepted-podcast-juli...
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ORMs make the obvious and easy things even easier. They don't help out as much with the hard stuff. The hard things are still hard regardless if you have an ORM or not, but just because an ORM doesn't solve everything it doesn't mean you should throw the baby out with the bath water.

You rarely have to "unpack everything", you usually just need to go down a level of abstraction or two to get at the actual database driver in specific parts of code.

The trade off of using an ORM is still almost always worth it in my experience, but it certainly depends on what your app does.
Good ol' Confirmation Bias.
I haven't worked with JSON like that before. Do JSON parsers properly ignore the stuff Google puts in, or do you have to strip it out before parsing?
I started university as EE, and wound up graduating with Computer Engineering (basically 50/50 EE and CS). 95% of my professional work has been nothing but software, but I've got some (laughably simple) professional hardware experience.

I literally can't keep my head straight without sketching some schematics. It's also super helpful when I'm prototyping and tear down a component to build something else (say, to reuse a microprocessor or expensive component like a GSM module) but then I want to go back to that first setup I had previously.

Try asking someone who really knows what they're doing for some non-trivial help and show them your rat's nest and no diagram and watch smoke pour from their ears as they try and remain calm and helpful.

I think you're on to a good idea though, the UML you practiced provided value (likely not because we all love UML) but it forced you to meditate (for lack of a better word) on design choices and decisions. You began iterating in your head and built some good reflexes. You were practicing your craft in a more robust fashion. I can't imagine spending time with schematics won't be helpful.
Everything? "We do have some information about the republican campaign". http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...
Encoders (not decoders) typically contain a glass disc which contains two 90 degree out-of-phase sinusoidal patterns of light/dark, these are digitized to some arbitrary precision to give you a number of 'steps' around one revolution of the encoder axis. The 90 degree out-of-phase signal is used to be able to determine the direction of motion.
No need to worry guys, the pro-establishment bilderberg/Rothschild puppet will be elected as the next French president.
WikiLeaks may have a 100% track record of releasing accurate leaks, but they definitely have a poor track record of representing the leaked information accurately, and they know that the media reports on their analysis and not the raw leaks.

See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-t...

We’ve seen WikiLeaks do this before. Last July, right after the attempted coup in Turkey, WikiLeaks promised, with much fanfare, to release emails belonging to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party. What WikiLeaks ultimately released, however, was nothing but mundane mailing lists of tens of thousands of ordinary people who discussed politics online. Back then, too, the ruse worked: Many Western journalists had hyped these non-leaks.
Either way, whether planted deliberately or left there by accident, it shows that at least those files are definitely fake.
How does it apply here?
The author never makes that claim. Where did you read that, specifically?
I got bitten by a similar pluralization issue when I tried to use Rails. I spent a good amount of time messing around to try to figure out what I was doing wrong that was preventing Rails from pluralizing ETA like it did with my other classes. Turns out that to Ruby/Rails the plural of ETA is ETA... I haven't touched Rails since then.

I don't like over-explicit code like Go forces on you, but if I was forced to choose between over-explicit and over-implicit, I wouldn't have to think twice about going for the explicit language.
Yep. What were App Annie's numbers? 35% of SC's daily average users in the U.S. don't use or can't be found on Facebook on any given day. 46% can't be reached on IG and 58% on Messenger. Snapchat is killing in the moment engaged posts. However, Snapchat, like Facebook, is fundamentally an ad tech platform too. SC will probably get worse along the way. Discover is click bait news and Stories have sneaky ads that everyone just skips. Maybe if Signal integrated a Bitmoji-like and filter experience, it would potentially become the best social experience.
It's an empirical rule, with a fair amount of evidence to back it up. You may be interested in this recent paper, which argues, in contrast to prevailing economic models, that Pareto-optimal outcomes may be rooted in production functions: https://www.econ.ucla.edu/fgeerolf/geerolf-pareto.pdf

As that is an economics paper the author is naturally at pains to relate such outcomes back to real-world causes, so as not to get lost in a maze of abstraction. My personal take on this, as an amateur number theorist and geometer, is that real-world Pareto distributions are degenerate cases of ideal power laws whose specificity and distinctiveness are illusory. I am a neoplatonist so you might want to think of this as a suggestion to take a step back rather than to peer closer.
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I think probably the Russians, since not many Western countries trust them anyway and so not much to lose, lots to gain.

Or it could have been the US (I'm American). The US administration likes LePen and nationalism.

"According to the study, the U.S. intervened in 81 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000, while the Soviet Union or Russia intervened in 36." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention

And if that doesn't work, sometimes we just overthrow countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Agree with this. We have a successful cloud call center product Cloudagent in India and it has an enterprisy pricing structure. We wanted to launch in the US this year and we came up with a new simplified product getkookoo.com and went with a drastic price change to capture the market. We removed per agent pricing and said a flat $19.9 for unlimited agents and pay for only the calls you make. We thought the super simple and cheaper pricing is all we need. Turns out, its not. Though we have got customers, its been harder than we thought. In our case, it looks like the second point above, trust, is what we have not been able to communicate.

So yeah, pricing is just one very small factor. It is a factor, but only after all other factors have been taken care of :)
There is absolutely no way someone can be familiar with the last couple years of Wikileaks and say that. Wikileaks has been flagrantly incorrect. The only way to say something like this is to badly want it to be true.

A good starting search here would be "Wikileaks Turkey".
We live in a boring planetary system. Can you imagine if we lived in one of those choreographies how difficult would it be for Kepler to devise the laws of planetary motion?
This is not magical thinking, although I agree the author is a little overly self-satisfied. Generalizations are a good thing. You will never appreciate the structure of a cathedral if you approach it with a micrometer.
Don't talk to the police. They aren't your friends.
Note that if you live near a university there's a decent chance they have a public-facing clinic as part of their psychology school that charges on a sliding scale
Can I turn this off?
This, exactly. They defend their claims by saying, "we're just asking the questions." There are tons (thousands, I would argue) of innocent victims who are put in the crosshairs because of WikiLeaks' agenda.
Funny how people seem to care more about who was targeted or how they got the leaks, rather than the content of the leaks themselves.

You'd think evidence of corruption would be relevant and worthy of mass coverage, no matter who committed it or how it was obtained.
Indeed. You wouldn't say that someone is "better" if they succeed due to "initial luck". They do have an "advantage", though.

The difference between the two analyses is moralizing.
In the very first stack overflow answer:

> an AJAX request at mail.google.com
> will have full access to the text content,
> and can strip it away.
To expand on this: I use VimWiki daily and it's been a really great way to keep myself organized. Being able to easily hyperlink and jump between documents makes navigating the document hierarchy very straightforward. I have VimWiki set up to integrate with Taskwarrior, so I can create and manage tasks right from Vim and everything gets persisted in a Taskwarrior file, which I can then use to generate reports or otherwise manipulate via standard Taskwarrior commands. Creating/managing tabular data has never been easier in Vim with the help of VimWiki. The list goes on; I really can't sing its praises enough!
What people may not realize is that we have a complete renewal of the parliament in less than two month, and if macron doesn't have a majority, then his prime minister may very well end up being a political opponent.

Rigging or trying to influence french elections would mean rigging four votes over the course of two months ( not even counting primaries inside political parties, each with two turns), which seems a bit unlikely to happen. I'd say our system is pretty secure in that matter.
Can remote be outside of the US (say in Israel)?
Specifically talking about the Senior PM position...
Thanks!
This was a nice write up, however I didn't follow how memory fragmentation was related to a memory leak. Can someone explain? I understand that alternate memory allocators would help with the fragmentation issue but how does the choice of allocators affect memory leakage?
Mainly muscle mass and height.
Yes. If you know how and where to look you will find them.
> the murder of Seth Rich

Seth Rich was killed by inner-city violence. Quoting our President: "Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store." "We'll get rid of the crime. You'll be able to walk down the street without getting shot. Right now, you walk down the street, you get shot. Look at the statistics."

Given the fact that you can't walk around America's inner cities without getting shot, any more conspiratorial explanation for Seth Rich's death just doesn't seem necessary. Or was our esteemed president wrong about inner-city violence?
Very cool! So I should perhaps qualify my comment to say that some newer appliances may be moving that way. (I've done work on motor drives for consumer electronics, robots and some industrial devices in the semiconductor world...no appliances, but it's cool to hear some of them are going that way!)
That moment when I have to go to Product Hunt to see screenshots of your app because apparently they aren't important enough to put on your landing page. Why do so many app landing pages leave out screenshots?
here comes tptacek and the wikileaks-smear brigade
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Isn't that what Safari does with the "Allow from current website only" setting? It defaults to "Allow from websites I visit", which means that only embedded content from sites you've visited before get their cookies, not random new embeds)
Yes...I did mean "good", not absolute top level. You would have to find 26 sub 4:30 mile runners to tie or win.

To put that in perspective, your pool would have to be from the top 160ish high school 1600m runners in Texas: https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Division/Event.aspx?D...

There are 3,709 high schools in Texas, so that means most of the high schools wouldn't even have a contender for this lopsided competition.
and Fox News says they're "fair and balanced."

Infowars says they are, "just asking the questions."

Breitbart says they are, "the last bastion of free speech."

None of the above 3 statements are true, and neither is Wikileaks statement.
You're extrapolating an extreme hypothetical back to my baseline behavior in an uncharitable way.

You're also taking a single action to generalize to all my behavior -- for example, you're ignoring the possibility that I would both "forget" the out of hours idea, but present them with studies about how treating "knowledge workers" better leads to increased output or other similar "during work" activities that might influence their behavior.

You're also ignoring a slew of other concerns, ranging from my emotional health to my willingness to lock IP up with someone I perceive to be a negative actor in society.

All because you want to brag about how you're better than me and be "right".
This is the work of a library used by certain apps, not of Google (although it wouldn't surprise me if Google turned out to be doing the same, discreetly).
I think Android should have way clearer notifications that your mic or camera are being used in the background, like iOS does, even if it may be cumbersome.
And, if some bad actor, say the Russians, are giving them all their info, and they are publishing "everything they receive", does that make them neutral? Or a willing pawn?
Elixir brings that balance to the force. :)
True, it's kind of a shame that more of the features from Bred Victor's demos haven't made it into mainstream IDE's, such as:-

Inventing on Principle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
(He has a handful of great demos on Youtube and Vimeo).

Another interesting source is Epic's Unreal Engine Dev tools - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DshYHUvLaDc
If you are the target of a foreign intelligence service, you are going to be hacked, end of story. There is very little you can do to protect yourself from a threat like that over time.
You are correct and I made a similar argument above for not passively accepting the existence of a natural phenomenon as a justification for The Way Things Are in society, but don't confuse specificity with rigor. Imperfect generalities often reflect partial truths, and to focus only on the inaccuracies therein is a kind of philosophic myopia.
Oh I don't think we disagree there; no one should be able to force someone to publish their works.

But an artist (and their estate) shouldn't be able to retroactively banish any of their published works from society simply by holding on to their copyrights.

Copyright is a deal made with society; you get to publish your work without fear of anyone else making a profit of it by simply copying your work, but for a limited time. After that it enters the public domain.
Something setup at home would likely have a much smaller attack surface. Apples and oranges.
I have no doubt that Clinton was corrupt, but I think Trump is outright dangerous and a huge step backwards for the US. I'll take Clinton's status quo corruption, thank you very much.

Besides, your entire point rests upon the incorrect assumption that the other side isn't corrupt.
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I agree with you the meta data could mean nothing.

But "noise"? More likely you're a paid troll.
Elixir might be up your alley. The language prefers explicit, and gives you macros to make the explicit implicit when it makes sense (e.g. the ORM). Functions are preferred, and you'll get flak for macro laden code, but the best macros are the ones you don't even know are there (like the "if" statement and "def" in Elixir.Kernel).
Sorry, your point may be valid but I don't see how it relates to my comment.
Wow, that's even older than v1!
Funny how these things come and go - I made a workflowy inspired plugin for Vim https://github.com/lukaszkorecki/workflowish

Little did I know I was re-inventing org-mode
It's weird that people performing this analysis, including you, and many VC's, treat customer acquisition costs as though you had to write a check to someone, so determining your customer acquisition costs means looking at the size of that check.

That can certainly be true, but don't most successful startups have some kind of viral, or networking, aspect, or get unexpected free press due to being the news itself, or piggybag on goodwill generated in other aspects of their business?

Why do people consider that "customer acquisition costs" are some kind of given, or are easy to estimate?
Yeah, and Trump's victory surprised everyone, including Russia and Trump. Electing Le Pen may not be the goal, but it could happen (I'm not familar with French elections).
Neat idea. Tab completion (+auto complete?) would have been really good too!
Natural occurring strontium is harmless and not radioactive. It fine to have it in toothpaste.

The reason you often hear about is strontium as something radioactive is because of Strontium-90, which is one of the longer lived products of nuclear fission, with 30 year half-life. Thus radioactive strontium-90 is always present after a nuclear accident or explosion.