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Supportive, or actively promoting? I don't think it's any problem to be supportive - there's no reason it needs to be known in the workplace. You don't have to engage with your peers about your political views. I worked with people I don't agree with and we just didn't talk about it. (at work)

It's a different thing if you want to actively talk about it, but then you need to be ready to receive the responses.
Yes, you're right, and you mentioned something else that I forgot to. A lot of people here are comparing Big 3 network costs to the cost of hiring a single network administrator. The correct comparison is to the cost of hiring a team big enough to staff a 24-hour on call rotation with a 5 minute response time SLA.
People of color?

What am I now... translucent?
The Alice project from CMU may be worth a look:

http://www.alice.org/
Things like that have a tendency to become effectively mandatory, even if they never officially are. If you're always the odd one out on these events, how likely do you think it is that your ideas and proposals will be adopted, you'll be picked first for career advancement opportunities or important assignments, people will respond quickly and helpfully to your questions, etc?

In a perfect world, none of that would be affected by your social habits, but our world is an imperfect place.
This is very encouraging. Thanks for sharing this.
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I don't think you know what you're talking about. California has the highest state income tax and the highest sales tax in the nation. The property tax, thanks to prop 13, is just at the "median" level.

I bought my house for $300K in 94087. Because people think houses here are now worth $2MM, my property tax should now be $25,000/year?

Right now, with prop 13, my property tax goes up 2%/year. That's more than inflation, and that's enough.
One thing I've noticed is that some of the great problems, such as Fermat's Last Theorem, spawned entire fields of math, from which applications may have developed. It wouldn't shock me if some advances in cryptography were spinoffs of progress in pure math.

Then there's the prize for progress towards understanding the Navier-Stokes equation of fluid dynamics.
Everywhere has a big NIMBY problem. Where I'm from in St. Louis they're seeing one of the biggest (although still modest in absolute terms) construction booms in over 50 years and people are complaining. This is a city that has lost 2/3 its peak population, that has underfunded basic services, that has tens of thousands of vacant buildings and lots.

But when somebody wants to build a new apartment building in a single-family neighborhood we get questions like, "where will people park?" And even straight-faced complaints about gentrification (in a city where you can still find apartments for $400/month).

Incumbents can derail almost anything, even in a city that should be begging for new development. It's a huge problem.
The event detection really isn't good enough to rely on yet. I've also run into the problem that the default settings for auto-created events are bad. Things like an alarm 10 minutes before a flight, or appointments being hidden from the one person I share my calendar with.
I meant the input and output of nodes. The main thing a VST oriented VPL does is manipulating audio samples so the graph is easier to use and reason about than a generic VPL (domain specific VPL seem to thrive, I wouldn't say the same thing for generic VPLs)
In the city I grew up in they had some arcane law on the books regarding brothels, so something stupid like no more than 8 women could live in one dwelling. Made it impossible to have sorority houses, though fraternity houses were still allowed.
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It's largely a myth that high rise projects were an experiment that went poorly. At the time that they were built, most of the high rise public housing projects were argued against by public housing advocates. Public high rise projects were a cynical racist tool of large political machines to segregate voter basis and solidify biased voting blocs.

The earlier public housing experiments were more about integrated mixed income housing, which were very successful. There are lots of examples of this model that are successful but modern versions get voted down due to the specter of the Robert Taylor homes.

One of my favorite books about this subject is "Blueprint for Disaster" by Hunt.
I don't get why the first two don't exist already. Really annoying there's so many apps in both categories, but they are horrid. It's as if they don't use their own products.

On the last app though, did you see the demo of Serif's app!? That looked incredible!
I think you're being a bit rose-colored glasses here if you're implying that apache/cgi sites had some sort of incredible uptime record back in the time when "the slashdot effect" was still a thing.

> Most of my bare metal and colocated machines have uptime of many years.

Nobody cares about host uptime, that just means you're not applying security updates. You're lamenting that you have to worry about fault tolerance in the cloud when the entire point is to have throw away instances!
This is a good point. Maybe measuring bugs/year instead of bug count total would work better.

Of course, what you want is all your bugs to be discovered quickly. It'd be interesting to see the bug/year count across all projects for each language, too. I suspect dynamic languages are prone to "coping" with bugs for longer, until a broken edge case is discovered.
50%* of our workforce relies on agriculture. Bringing up their standards of living i.e. rural India is what we need to focus on first.

*https://www.ibef.org/exports/agriculture-and-food-industry-i...
It's pretty simplistic to suggest that the projects caused crime and social problems. A good first step toward understanding the broader cultural context is The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pruitt-Igoe_Myth
Out of curiosity, how difficult was it for you to enroll in graduate school without a bachelor's degree?
I think you're often correct. Literary writers seem to bring their ego to sci-fi, thinking "I'll show these plebes real writing." The result usually sounds like a Dad trying to play cool guitar licks for his teenage son's friends.

But there are counter-examples. Jonathan Lethem is at his best when he toes both worlds, and Iain "M" Banks is equally famous for his literature and his space operas. It's an absolute crime that James Morrow isn't better-known. And pretty much everything the Slate article hits is excellent.
A good high-level overview for those new to the topic. Here's my advice:

If you have the time to do error analysis and performance optimization, then maybe use float; if not, use double. http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~robert/teaching/master/material/p5-g...

If you have to implement a numeric or geometric algorithm, even as simple as "find the intersection of two infinite, non-parallel lines in 2D", use a library; don't code it yourself. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8585427/precision-issues...

If you do code it yourself, study a reference that approaches things numerically, not merely symbolically; the usual symbolic approach taught in school is often not appropriate numerically. see e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_significance#Instabili...

Once you understand why you should teach beginning coders rules like the above, even though they're huge over-simplifications, then use your own common sense instead of these rules.
Hmm, I'm behind a popular VPN and get greeted with:

"Sorry, you’re not allowed to access this page."

"Contact Yelp if you keep experiencing issues."

Oh well
"it depicts a dystopian future in which a celebrity becomes an authoritarian politician. As shocking as the presidency of Donald Trump has been, there’s a history of mulishly regressive Americans electing such people, from Ronald Reagan to Jesse Ventura."

Reagan was an authoritarian? I've heard endless complaints about him, but not that one.
Montreal has low pings to the US.
"You implied that cartoonish violence like Contra will have substantially negative psychological effects on children."

I do believe they have negative effects on children but I don't believe that extends to school shootings.

Are you sure it was a lack of video games and movies that let you to have trouble forming relationships? My anecdote is that even though I had virtually no video games (except at friends houses) or television until highschool I was still able to form (and maintain for 30+ years) friendships with my peers who had very different rules than I did, and had a full social life all through school (I do consider myself a strong introvert and have had social anxiety issues in past, but I would never point at lack of TV/games growing up as a root cause).

Like you said, neither one of us has hard data, only anecdotal stories with different outcomes for similar "media" parenting strategies.

Even if there is no negative consequence on an individual child relative to their peer group, I still believe (can't support with evidence obviously) that exposing children to violence in video games and movies is a net societal negative that I don't intend to contribute to.

edit: Just wanted to say I appreciate your perspective as it's one I hadn't even considered before and gave me some food for thought.
>its a few big cities where people want to live

Correction, it's a few big cities that have all the jobs and offer a chance at upward mobility.
Great ! That's exactly what I want to do, a FF for GLSL :D
Holding money is generally not a good idea except to cover emergencies (and for that there's always debt)

Even if it's value wasn't decreasing you're still taking a loss due to opertunity cost.
I don't think many people in tech feel "normal" at work because of high cultural diversity. Racial and gender lines are less significant compared to nationality and primary language.

Tech has massive language and nationality diversity. I would guess that > 50% of software engineers in the USA are either immigrants or 2nd generation Americans (who grew up with immigrant parents). Because of this, many people don't find many coworkers that they have much in common with.
>> Why is it Google's responsibility to administer all this?

Setting "don't be evil" aside, Google's only responsibility is to Google.

But here's the rub. Google's product is its users' attention. If they bias their search results enough, (maybe) they lose product inventory.

How much is "enough"? Probably much more than filtering WSJ.

But IMO bias in a search engine – a presumed oracle of truth – is evil. So there's that.
It's the drinks that are expensive, not the tacos.

And soda has a 1,150% markup [1], so it actually is like that.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/products-high-markups-2014-7

P.S. You could host it on Github for even less, if you were really price conscious.
> disconcerting ability to write backward with her left hand while writing forward with her right.

I remember sitting in a meeting fascinatedly watching a Japanese colleague take notes in English with his left hand -- because in Japan there is such a bias against left-handedness. That was interesting enough, but when the meeting would switch into Japanese he'd the his notes in Japanese with his right hand.

He spoke clearly without a stammer.
I'm working through a vue.js course on udemy and I'm really enjoying it so far. I've worked with Django, flask, and spring boot in the past. I can't say for sure yet if Vue is my favorite, but I have good feelings about it.
Heh. Ironically they're not using their (non-standard) display: -webkit-sticky; for the sticky sidebar.
and I would point out that on my machine (GCC 6.3-based x86-64 Linux) the times are much closer

~ time python2 -c exit
real 0m0.014s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.004s

vs.

~ time python3 -c exit
real 0m0.022s
user 0m0.018s
sys 0m0.004s

So for me it's more like an 8ms realtime difference, and four milliseconds are spent in the system either way.

python2 seems to do about 700 system calls (!) to start up and exit immediately, including enumerating things like gtk-2 and wxwidgets, which boggles the mind, but it is what it is.

python3 seems to do about 470 system calls, much less but still bonkers to my mind. Also weird that they take the same ~4ms in the kernel given that python3 calls into the kernel so much less.
You're comparing the simplist possible scenario with a platform that can replace a large data center.

How do you handle segmentation of workload among thousands of servers? Provide firewall services? Meter bandwidth? Provide redundancy to protect against failure of a switch or any other single network component? Provide redundant transit via multiple ISPs?

The answer historically is that you would buy a bunch of stuff from Cisco, pay through the nose for TAC, and hire a team of network engineers who may or may not be idiots. One place I worked at lived with a 30 day eta in firewall changes.

Your server that has a long uptime is a risk in a large org. It's obviously not patched, nobody knows how to configure it again. Different customers have different needs.
I gotta agree with you on that. All concept, no character. Which really makes ideal as a kicking-off point for a tv series.

(ditto for Fahrenheit 451)
The point is that, in the absence of laws regulating private possession of nukes, the only limit on obtaining one would be financial resources necessary to do so. This requires an actor that operates on the same scale as states, but e.g. modern transnational corporations are on that scale. If Apple invested its $250 billion into procuring a nuke, do you think they would be unable to do so? Would you be comfortable if they did?
> If you actually balance on socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, you will tend to regress towards the base population distribution of your hiring locality.

If you actually balance on socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, you will tend to regress toward the base population distribution of the qualified applicants in your hiring locality.

Which is basically what we see. It's not as if there are a slew of black programmers that no one will hire because of racism. The outcome is primarily a result of the lack of qualified minority applicants.

> Indeed, by selecting for white men in America you actually will amplify classist effects in America, as wealth is disproportionately distributed to white men.

The causation goes the other way. In order to get into this field you have to come from a culture that encourages young people to learn math and computers, and a family that can afford to send their children to college. Those conditions create much of the racial disparity in qualified applicants.

The economic problem has a plausible solution, you can subsidize higher education, the main impediment being how to finance it. But what do you propose to do about the cultural differences? If children in one culture aspire to be tech entrepreneurs and children in another culture aspire to be professional athletes, you're going to see different outcomes.

> What specific group is both discouraging its members to be computer scientists and also publicly demanding more opportunities in computer science?

Groups like "women" or "African Americans" are broad and internally diverse. You can trivially find contradictory opinions. One black man laments the small number of black men in computer science while another black man encourages his children to join the basketball team instead of the computer club.
It's more like stealing from an unlocked locker at a public pool.
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...which means the measurements are meaningless. They will include the time to analyse the hot paths and then compile them.
Somehow they managed to turn it around enough that there's discussions in this thread about a windows surface and an iPad Pro. Which is something in itself.
No idea this person's track record (nor the record of the japanese writer being cited) but this site asserts that all iPhones 7 have the same NFC chip and that a future iOS version (11?) will enable it worldwide.
https://atadistance.net/2017/04/03/iphone-7s-taking-felica-w...
>2. The app, through some nasty hacks, receive the host auth blob from the server to verify.

What do you mean here? is the host auth blob coming from the third party service you are trying to auth to (e.g. Github), or from the initial client making the auth request (e.g. "Request from Macbook")?
I'm pretty sure Safari's features are intentionally crippled to keep their app ecosystem safe. See: web notifications.

I’m pretty sure you'd be wrong. Apple announced that it's paid over $70 billion to app developers since the App Store became a thing in 2008 at today's WWDC keynote. This is the 30% Apple pays developers; so we're talking about $233 billion in gross transactions in less than 10 years.

Apple is likely to be the first trillion dollar valuation company; I seriously doubt it's worried about web apps encroaching upon a fairly small part of it's revenue: http://fortune.com/2017/03/31/apple-trillion-dollar-company/
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Oh, yes it is. I've benchmarked code I've written in C++ vs Java before and allowing hotspot to optimise the code makes a huge difference
I try to visualize something like this and I can kind of feel my brain just trying to click off.
Whatever works for you but these questions are very rude and unnecessarily intrusive. Imagine the questions with the genders reversed.
I'm constantly being harassed to set my iTunes password and to update my iOS on my iPad. I don't want to. Leave me alone, apple. This is my iPad, not yours.
I live in the area. West Village is quickly becoming a ghost town. I can't believe these landlords can afford to sit on empty lots for months and years. Only well financed businesses can afford to move in, which feeds into the cycle of boring hyper expensive restaurants.

Also, landlords can't take all the blame since you can't have every business be a restaurant. Online shopping deserves some of the blame. And the shops that do exist are just glorified catalogs, the cost of which is probably part of the companies' marketing expense. Thus, only big name luxury retailers can afford to rent these spaces.

As for the article, I think they called it: high rent blight. Late stage gentrification. This is what happens when even the rich can't afford to be there. The neighborhood needs a reset.
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Yeah, a lot of my friends from LA worry about being able to stick around so they can have a house, kids, and grandparents to look after the kids (and for them to be able to look after the grandparents).
I tend to forget one at home and one at the office. So I keep one in my briefcase just to be sure. I accumulated the other 2 over months. Trust me, spending $100 on a writing utensil pains me a little, but not so much it precludes doing what it takes to get the work done.
They still exist and (as far as I know) there are no plans to do anything about them. We (thankfully) were alerted to this issue by HackerOne before it was an issue, but this remains an absurdly easy attack vector...
Ha. I have an HP Elite X2 1012 and I love it. Windows 10, user-upgradable parts (recently updated the SSD to 512GB), running Bash/Ubuntu for Windows, no moving parts, wonderful keyboard, and superb stylus. I have been using Windows Tablet PC designs since 2003 and this is the best one yet. I can do serious development work on it and then detach the keyboard and get down to a good read (Zinio, Kindle, built-in PDF reader app for my scanned books.)
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Coincidentally I just ended my WSJ subscription because they were publishing fewer and fewer articles. It was down to maybe 5-6 a day that were even worth reading.
I think the problem is pep8. For some reason, pep8 says you load your modules at the top of the file rather than when needed. Giant libraries often follow pep8, meaning something like "import pandas" loads hundreds of python files, which gives the absurd startup times.

I've seen some large code bases take 4 seconds to import, > 80% being unused code.
The immediate problem that I can see with this is that any government can target you, not just your own. Which means that, 1) you might not have any recourse, nor even demand any accountability, from your attacker, and 2) a foreign government might attack crucial private entities, or even public infrastructure that is below the "unbreakable" protection level.

But ultimately, the real question is - how do you enforce this, short of a massive censorship effort (and even then)? We already know how to make strong crypto. You can make it illegal, but unless you have a specific plan as to how to prevent me from coding, say, AES from scratch, I don't see how this would actually help prevent secure communications between terrorists and other high-risk criminals (and I would argue that criminal activity that is not severe enough that its perpetrators wouldn't invest into crypto even if it's banned, is not the kind that can be reasonably used to justify banning crypto in the first place).

So it is actually a lot like the high-cap mag bans - it's so simple to make them, that someone who would really derive benefit from having one would just do so. Same thing here.
...and how many people need that? I would gladly 1/3 of the cost for 4 nines over 5 nines. (or whatever SLA they offer).

Not everyone need a ritzy ultra reliable network. It costs way too much and hardly any customer is going to get comparable value out of it.
But ES6 Map/Set is almost useless as it has no custom hash nor equality function. The key is either numeric, string, or object identity, not anyway better than the builtin {}.
>> ES6 is what we've called it,

Who is "we"?
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>> We were calling it ES6 since before

Who is "we"?
Is there any list on the lives that were taken by the colonial swords and guns?
>> We'll probably use years for the future versions

Who is "we"?
Fair enough, it's not exactly a security play though.
There are, but they are hard to find.

Networking is a great place for assholes to build empires and exert control. In 20 years of professional engagement with distributed and data center networks, most of these guys (and they are almost always guys) running network orgs are an impediment and spend more time helping out their vendor of choice than anything else.

I've run into awesome network guys in position of power only a few times, and they are 100x employees. The last major rollout of a service that I did was literally 3 months ahead of schedule solely because of the efforts of this awesome network dude snowman as recently put in charge.
>people playing with toys

I've got a 3 yr old. He loves these videos. Before he came along I didn't know they even existed. I find them disturbing. The overt consumerism is very off putting. We don't allow our son to watch these videos.
A lot of people are equating this to theft. While I can see their point, the concept of ownership in bitcoin is closely tied to control of the private keys. In this case many people control certain weak private keys so in a way you are giving your money away by sending to these addresses.