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"Ray Charles has killed more Jews than happy marriages have ended in divorce"

Louis CK
> Can you point me to a similarly principled approach to decision making based on utility with frequentist methods?

Sure, as I said anything involving ROC curves, where we pick an operating point by trading off the cost of false positives vs. false negatives and a design rate of incoming true positives and negatives.
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Actually that is exactly what hacking is.

I find it highly ironic that people post stories about hacking this thing or the other all the time, most of which do not even resemble the original definition of the word in any way and yet a story about an actual hack has this comment on it.

Hacking is exploiting code in a way that it was not intended to be used.
No. On a daily basis, I don't run into walls in Linux. In Windows, I do regularly. The issues discussed in this article stem from poor design in Windows and legacy shit that hasn't been updated. Just insert my other reply here, it's still perfectly applicable. If you can fix these issues at all yourself then they're not issues.
The part I'm most curious about is how Floating Sheep was looking for tweets "with racist terms that also reference the election". It just seems like 395 geocoded racist tweets is low. If they were just running tweets against a whitelist of things they thought a racist tweet might contain there could have been a lot of tweets falling through the cracks. Or, hey, maybe not.

The comments on Mashable and the original Floating Sheep article sure did get ugly quick though.

EDIT: A little bit of digging in the comments turned up a follow-up post by Floating Sheep:
http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/faq-mapping-racist-twee...
Is there any chance that this shortage will prompt a more serious consideration of having planes take off and land totally via AI?
Why don't junior pilots form their own union?
I read it as multiple simultaneous realizations, one of them about marriage (a realization forced by his wife initiating the divorce), leading him to reboot himself.
What were the things an autopilot couldn't handle. If more engineering effort were spent, couldn't those also be automatically handled. Plus, couldn't airplanes be remote controlled.
I think the reason may be less nefarious. This election is a case study of how much reality can diverge from expectations. And how people can hold on to these expectations till the very last moment, even though data says otherwise.

For this reason, its a very interesting election to study and analyze from a technology perspective. E.g. has the internet really succeeded in disseminating data and viewpoints effectively, or has it made our "bubble walls" more rigid. What is the role of fact checking and factual reporting when it comes to the media, has technology made getting to the truth easier or harder?

Very interesting for the hackers on this site...

Also, in discussing this election, its unavoidable that Romney is painted in a bad light. He lost after a spirited campaign that was alas never as close as he and his team portrayed it to be.
I can't believe it either. Did they pay as much to their own designers? The entire iOS design can be worth thousands of this clock.
>they are trying to erase their history of supporting him.

That's not necessarily the case. More likely they just don't want updates anymore.

I don't think any of his supporters are particularly ashamed of supporting him.
Doesn't that mean that, according to Louis CK, Ray Charles must have at least killed one Jew?

(If no happy marriages have ever ended in divorce, and Ray Charles has never killed a Jew, then Ray hasn't killed more Jews than happy marriages have ended in divorce, but equally is as many.)

And that wasn't the only time Louis CK made the connection:

"There are so many dead people. Ray Charles is dead... Hitler. A bunch of other ones, but mostly those two guys. Ray Charles and Hitler are both dead. And really, it’s the only thing they have in common, because otherwise, they’re very different dudes. Many contrasts between Hitler and Ray Charles. I’m gonna tell you a few of them. Ray Charles was black, Hitler was NOT. Hitler killed several Jews... Too many, I’ll say too many. He killed an excessive amount of Jews. He really beat that thing to the ground. He killed way - just no moderation. Ray Charles, meanwhile, hardly any Jews! He killed so few Jews!"
Man that's a shame.

Me and Jon (the founder) used to be active a forum (Talkfreelance) a few years back alongside a bunch of other talented members. I remember he used to make all these cool little sites, usually for a single idea (I guess similar to a startup but this was maybe before the name was coined). Anyway he would make sure every site was designed to a super high standard and then usually sell them off in the marketplace a few months later.

Then once the forum died down, I saw on Techcrunch that he founded Dailybooth, thought that was pretty awesome for a member from our forum.

Anyway best of luck Jon, I bet you'll be back with another idea soon!
I've been thinking about trying a tiling window manager, since I despise using the touchpad on my ThinkPad and Emacs and my MBA's touchpad have spoiled me on never really moving my hands from the keyboard. I thought about xmonad but now is not the time I want to spend diving into Haskell.

This seems like a great middle ground. I'll be trying it this week.
That's what people said about driving cars as well. until a serious effort showed it was possible.
What if you have two different versions of the app with different dictionaries?
Wow, I hadn't heard about this before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38
NSA seems very low profile and I'm not sure they are capable of enforcement. They probably got wind and passed it to FBI. Just speculating here.
Blizzard has three vested interests in shutting down gold sellers.

The first is that the majority of sold gold is stolen from compromised accounts. The customer service costs of resolving those accounts have a real world price.

The second is that it devalues the in-game economy. This frustrates players and leads to the loss of subscriptions.

Finally, Blizzard has to at least make a show of not wanting any kind of currency exchange. That leads to issues of taxation and financial auditing. Blizzard has no desire to be Lindon Labs.

There's more to it than this, of course, but I'm on my phone and don't feel like tapping any more.
Edited. Thanks a ton.
Changed the problem statement. Thanks
So is Megan dead yet or what?
At a minimum it should be in your headers, otherwise we have no idea how to proceed. We are actually running into that issue at work because something we use has a header file with just a copyright in it and no license.
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"The only solution to this is to check words on the server."

What problem are you trying to solve?

My understanding of the problem being discussed: How can you make sure you aren't being cheated when playing Letterpress?

To solve that problem, all I have to do is validate that all your moves are legal. (In the case of Letterpress, that all the words you play are in the dictionary.)

There's no need for a server to solve that problem.
Why does this have over 150 points?
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>Replacing it wouldn't protect them from infringement lawsuits

Why not?
I was rather surprised to see Peter Thiel listed at $4.735MM in Republican contributions, until I clicked the details which read:

This young billionaire Libertarian was the major donor behind the super PAC that backed Ron Paul.

And it now makes sense.

Edit: Also, a fun factoid is that the Rentec founder, James Simons, gave to the Democratic Party while the current co-CEO, Robert Mercer, gave to the Republican Party.
Don't listen to this guy. Building relationships is a huge part of how you go grom one of the massive pile of mostly crap resumes to someone who can skip that and get a warm interview. If you have spoken to someone and they remember who you are, you have a relationship. If you develop relationships with people who might hire you later, maybe they don't hire you, but maybe they can introduce you to someone who will.

The EV of contacting people like this is high. You should do it.
Christ, commenters, lighten up. Not every emotional blog post is a heartless grab for attention. If you don't like it, just ignore it and go do something else. Don't punch the guy just for the hell of it.
Plenty of people on all sides think that the other side is evil. I haven't read more than the one-word titles of Ann Coulter's books to know that she doesn't think that liberals are merely "mistaken".
Why did he do? Post this article?

Or are you talking about something else?

Please explain, thanks

Edit: the now-deleted parent said that Alex was selfish for what he did to his ex-wife and company.
Why doesnt Google have fantasy sports?
I hate gloating as much as the next guy, but I see this as a legitimately interesting phenomenon. New media is a big deal for a lot of people here. Getting a deeper understanding of how things really happen? Bring it.
Congress upped the minimum flight time requirements, without thinking about the consequences.
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I agree with legalizing drugs, however, there's a big unknown: if you get rid of the main profit center of these huge drug gangs, what will they do to keep the money flowing? They're not just going to pack up their bags and leave. There may be major blow-back that we can't really predict. Possibly even more violence, if that could even be imagined. Certainly kidnappings would rise.
It took years before I was hireable material. All I had in 1999 was irc rooms and mailing lists filled with egotistic programmers that had 120 different ways to call you dumb if you wanted to learn.

Learning to be a hireable programmer is a multi-year journey. You can do it on your own. Freelance small jobs until they become big jobs.
Thank you so much for posting this Alex.

I'm young enough for marriage to seem distant, and my parents are still married, yet more than half of the children I grew up with had divorced parents and I have several separated family members.

It's not uncommon for most of the families on a suburb block to be divorced, especially in certain areas (most of my affluent white friends had antagonistically divorced parents, mainly due to money)[1]. The U.S. still has a large problem with divorce (~50%), and especially with divorce among families with children.

Divorce is far too often considered "taboo", as stated in this article, which is quite a travesty because I've found discussion can provide great benefit to not only those already affected by it, but those contemplating long term relationships. We consider divorce a "failure" in modern society, and in my opinion that's very often not the case. Many times divorce can mean simply a resolution of irreconcilable differences. However the law, lack of openness and general societal pressure can turn even amicable splits ugly.

In the end I've found closure like the OP describes always the most helpful: realization that life continues to go on, and even things that you relate with the old relationship (in this case, technology) will still be there as they always were.

[1] I feel it's important to note that divorce rates are highly variable dependent upon ethnic groups and demographics
If anyone is just looking for a way to manage and sync dotfiles without any of the sharing features (which are interesting but a little scary), you might want to check out my thing: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff
> Students only pay us when they find a dev job after the program.

Either that statement is incorrect, or you are only charging some students. What would you refer to the $3,000 upfront payment as?
There are two primary reasons this story is possible. One, we have a highly motivated student; and two, tremendous demand unfilled via traditional channels.

And nothing against a 9-week code bootcamp, but even if the student invested 12 hours a day with no days off, we're talking about 756 hours of experience. Compare this to a university education at four years times 12 hours of class a week for 30 weeks and two hours of study for each hour of class, we have 4320 hours of experience.

Granted, not all of that experience is coding!, but nor are we counting four years of personal projects, internships, summer jobs etc. And along with that, neither are we counting the relationships with professors and peers, not only within our chosen profession - but perhaps more importantly, without.

Not to take anything away from this kid and his story, but it's difficult to reconcile the comments from people who think university is a waste of time. It really just sounds like they are from people who are/were asleep at the wheel. Which makes me wonder why anyone would want to hire them (well, I mean, other than the tremendous demand thing)?
If I remember correctly the marriage bit comes after the hitler bit in the same show, so Louis is just referring to the earlier joke.
You don't need AI for that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland

You'd need it very much if you wanted to deal with unforeseen situations. In those cases pilots come in real handy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
The fast-paced tech industry often has this effect on its devotees. People like Alex live their lives at an accelerated rate. They work hard. They make their money at a young age. They compare themselves and their lives to the people around them -- people often twice their age -- and wonder why they don't have what their elders often have: family, children, a sense of self-understanding. Alex is young; 27 years old, if I'm not mistaken. He's done more, created more, and experienced more than most people his age, including having a four-year marriage. Do you remember what four years of anything felt like when you were his age? It's an eternity. His angst at having lost it and, in part, his realization that the life he was constructing for himself was not the life he wanted, is completely justified.

He deserves immense credit for showing this level of transparency. If you haven't taken some lesson away from this post, then you need to re-read it. It's not about empathy; it's about the importance of self-discovery.
There is a name for this: callback hell.
Fresh handles local files too: https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/config/fresh...

Edit: https://github.com/freshshell/fresh#local-files
DB for teams yes, you could say that. the service isn't even a month old yet but we're hoping to continuously improve and by this spring have something that could compete with DB or GDrive or whoever else is out there.
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A YouTube video transcript that's 83% wrong
From my experience, on-premise vs. cloud/hosted is a tradeoff between engineering talent (keeping the servers up) and SLA management (filing tickets/contacting providers when SLA is not being met or bad stuff happens).
> What were the things an autopilot couldn't handle.

Anything unforeseen. Aviation is still a craft, not a science even if a very large number (a huge number, actually) of hours have gone into making it a science. The basic problem here is that you're dealing with chaotic natural systems on one end and machinery at the other. All it takes is a flight of geese or some unusual weather pattern and all your careful programming is worth zip. In situations like that humans tend to do better than computers.
IMHO it's not close at all. First, the namespace shouldn't be counted, leading to a huge difference in sheer length. Second, the words in the BCL name, more or less, form a comprehensible noun phrase. Third and anyway, this is the longest public class in the BCL, whereas the article describes an internal class; a much higher bar should be held for public names.
It's also not a copyright claim, but a trademark claim. Different type of lawsuit altogether.
I found myself stopping to digest several phrases. On top of being courageous and open about your experiences, you certainly have a way with words.

Thank you for your honesty. As someone who lacks life experience, I sincerely appreciate your perspective.
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Yep, there is some business opportunities here.
>The whole thing reads like someone who needs to do a lot more self-reflection.

He's 28; 4 years is a big chunk of that life. I'm not quite sure what you mean though. He seems to do some self-reflection, and this post is an example of it made public.
I'm amazed at the number of projects that don't have even the simplest description as to what problem the software purports to solve. This well-intentioned project strikes me as among the more egregious examples.

The README contains almost zero information as to why the project was created, which problems it aims to rectify, and why you might want to use it. That this information may or may not be contained in an embedded video is of no relevance to someone (like myself) who has neither the time nor ability at this particular moment to watch anything on video that could have been more succinctly explained in 2-3 sentences. It won't be bookmarked or favorited for later perusal -- just ignored.

Please understand I mean this as constructively as possible: it's hard to create something and share it with the world, and for that your efforts are most highly commended. I suggest adding a general introduction/description and some use cases to both the project site and README file. That will go a long way toward garnering the attention of those who might otherwise simply shrug and walk away.
What impressed me most about that entry is how they managed to trace it back to the root cause (besides, obviously managing to do as well as they did).
Seems like a great time to downsize the US Air Force (and other military/government organizations with employ pilots); every (manned, not UAV) pilot and aircraft they cut would also get rid of 50-200 support at various levels.
Interesting idea, applying this to myself I woud listen to music everyday - but only make a purchase from the marketplace once a year or so (depending on what is being sold I guess).
Not sure if the sums will add up, I agree that some money for the artists is better than none - but with other streaming services competing and paying more to the artists why would this be successful?
That does seem to be the problem. But that seems wrong?
We ask all students to put down a $3,000 fully refundable deposit.

There are clearly defined rules for deducting from the deposit (e.g., arrive late for class: $10, etc.). The money deducted does not go to us, but is distributed evenly among the other students.

The reason for the deposit is that students are working in pairs throughout the class, and if a student doesn’t show up, he/she disrupts the classroom experience for everybody. The system was successful for our summer course; it both helps ensure that students have a pair programming partner everyday and that even though the class is free upfront, everyone feels invested.

As long as students show up everyday and stay focused, they get their deposits back at the end, as all of the summer students have.
Dailybooth (YC S09) is officially shutting down.
I spent so much time trying to organize the life that I thought I wanted. It wasn’t the same as living.

Every single time I've tried to push my life in a direction, tried to bend it to my will, it has blown up in my face. So, while I have things I'd like to do and places I'd like to go, I've learned to just let things unfold as they may. I try to influence and guide it, but I don't push it anymore.

I think it comes down to my reaction to the results of trying to push it. When I'm letting it glide, I'm unconcerned about things going in the wrong direction and am happy when they do. If I'm trying to push it, I wind up concerned when things go in the wrong direction and not particularly happy when they do (that was where they were supposed to go, after all).

I learned this lesson at a much older age than I should have.
So what is innovative by your definition, then? A few inches of extra screen and a dual-core processor?
Airplanes are substantially more complicated machines than cars, and are also pushed much further in their performance envelope than cars.

Cars also enjoy much safer failure modes than aircraft - if a catastrophic failure occurs in all likelihood you can pull the car over to a stop without issue. When a catastrophic failure occurs in an aircraft's controls it hits the ground and everybody dies.

We're not even quite there yet for self-driving cars, though we are close - and that is a problem orders of magnitude easier than fully-competent autopilots.

We already have the technology to take off, fly, and land planes in the Happy Case. But the devil is really in the unhappy cases.

Nobody is saying we won't ever have full autopilots - but that we are very, very far away from such a capability, and simply throwing engineers at the problem is unlikely to give you the solution substantially faster. When you're pushing the absolute edges of scientific and engineering knowledge progress does not correlate strongly with workforce.
I think you shouldn't go around referring to Hashem when you blatantly don't know His laws. Jews face judgment, not karma.
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I'm glad you found it useful!

Libimobiledevice does a lot of things, and as I mentioned in the post I've only implemented a subset so far. I'd like to make it more feature-complete soon.

You should come help out in https://github.com/stateio/imobiledevice.
That's deep. Really deep.

People learn things when their mind is clear. During my teenage and college years, my mind was convoluted by ideal thoughts and I may have been blinded by those thoughts.

As I get older, I tend to sit back a little bit and observe more than be trigger-happy (in giving advises, in sharing opinions, in giving orders, etc.), I learn a lot more about life by doing this.
[The unspoken] on top of both parties.

Oh, well. One funny thing about US politics is just how damn cheap American corruption is. They spend millions of dollars and get billions in return. And we're supposed to be upset about the millions?
You're right I'm off. Wasn't trying to exaggerate, was recalling what they made when I went to school 10 years ago.

Median starting salary is just under $35K. So I'll correct myself and say $40K vs $35K.

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/All_K-12_Teachers/Salary...

Glad I learned something :)
Thanks for the feedback. We should have done this a while ago. It's easy to forget that other people have no idea what we are building. Cheers.

https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/commit/4ebf599aa61b54b66... and https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/commit/000d7ce00b9029881...
Yeah, Wordpress isn't great about this. But, to answer your question, the best place to start for The Cabin in the Woods is here: http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-cabin-in.... Then use the next-post controls to move between them.
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I am not from US, is it normal for Republicans to give so much (large amounts) compared to Democratics?

It looks like BO rally had to work harder for his money compared to MR.
The big difference between cars and planes is that a near universal failsafe in a car is to slam on the brakes. Car stops. Simple and relatively foolproof. There is no such avenue available to a plane in flight.

If you still think it's possible take some time to learn of all the novel failure modes that have occured over the past few decades in commercial aviation. Pay special attention to the ones requiring crew to override onboard computers.
This clock isn't used on the iPhone.
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