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The first step to making your city not a crime-ridden violent shithole is to stop treating it like a badge of honor.

NYC is like this to some extent, but not nearly as extreme as the Bay Area.

Reminds of this choice quote from the Onion: "In addition, 3 million New Yorkers reportedly left the city because they realized the phrase "Only in New York" is actually just a defense mechanism used to convince themselves that seeing a naked man take a shit on a park bench is somehow endearing, or part of some shared cultural experience."[1]

The Bay Area is much worse in this regard. It's the sort of place where privileged rich people treat objectively terrible, horrible as some sort of rite of passage. There's some kind of sick, perverse pride in living in a 24-hour The Wire episode.

[1] http://www.theonion.com/articles/84-million-new-yorkers-sudd...
Yep. When visiting SF, I tried to walk a lot to see the city change. Going into different neighborhoods felt more like stepping into completely different cities. I'd hear X neighborhood was full of Y, and it was exactly that. Perhaps it blends more once you live there, but I was really struck by the cultural divisions.
I don't think people understand what your point is. What do you think is missing from the sentence? An explicit mention of independence? Why do you think 1,2,1,2,1,2,... is indistinguishable from uniform? In another response you said

> But I never said it was indistinguishable

which is confusing in context. What properties do yo claim your sequence has?
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I know people who regularly go between NYC and Philadelphia. The distance is about 100 miles, covered in 70-90 minutes (depending on the train). During peak hours trains run every 15 or 30 minutes and even the night-time gap isn't terribly long (stops running at midnight, starts again at 3am). I'm not sure if the Bay Area has comparable density to the DC-Philly-NY-Boston corridor, so maybe achieving the same level of train service isn't possible.
I can see why it was brought down, but it would definitely be useful if the owner of the account and Digital Ocean could work together to resolve the issue.

At least some sort of notification should be in place.
Here in sunny 'ol Hull its only £1.50 :)
I did all my graphs in phd work with Veusz; awesome work. Now I study it for the PyQt excellence. Thank you for the great work!
"The change from the strong OpenSSL cipher list to a hardcoded one starting
with weak ciphers is either a sign of horrible ignorance, security incompetence
or a clever disguise for an NSA-influenced manipulation - you decide!"

Survey says: Short-sightedness. Not really ignorance or incompetence (although that may be arguable), but it's certainly not "NSA-influenced manipulation". That's the sort of thing they reserve for countries, not consumers. For consumers, they rely on undisclosed 0-days with the severe ones reserved for high priority targets.

It's far more economical, considering the scales of this vacuum, to simply rely on service providers freely handing over data on their customers rather than breaking crypto.

Side note: The "OMG NSA!!" hyperbole is starting to fray at my nerves. Not everything is a conspiracy. It doesn't need to be when willing participants are holding the keys to the castle in the first place.

Relevant: http://xkcd.com/538/
For Master's and Doctorate programs, sure, but not for undergraduates. What country has half of its populace graduate from an advanced degree program?
> BTC is not valuable because it is definitive proof of difficult work - its valuable because it is 'difficult' to create, which protects your BTC against inflation/counterfitting.

The "difficult to create" part is the same as proof of work.
That's a good point, and that may well be what the authors meant.

Since all PRNGs are periodic (at least all I now of), the definition eventually breaks down. I can see how it can be made to work with a bit of extra formalism, though.

Thanks.
I tried for more than a minute to split earth in two. My physics-brain just expects it.
Is it a subsidy to the underpaid, or a subsidy to he corporations that employ them and don't have to pay true market wages. In other boom economies, such as parts of Alberta with its oil industry, it's not uncommon for fast food staff to make $15-$20 an hour and be granted benefits. Why should the taxpaying middle class spare McDonalds this expense?
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I must confess, since I swapped R and H in revision 2, Workman usually gets the edge on Norman using Workman metrics, depending on the input text. I guess I'll hunt down whatever text revisions are appropriate on normanlayout.info.
hadley, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to say thank you for ggplot2 and plyr. Both have made R infinitely more useful to me and have been used thousands of times by me over the past 3 years.
Buffet made his initial nut by raising a sort of "Friends & Family" round for a mini-hedge-fund type thing. You can read about his wealthy Aunts and extended family in Snowball.

He was doing this on the side while working at his daddys Buffett-Falk & Co as an investment salesman. He did well and after stalking Graham was able to get a gig in NYC for a few years before returning to running "mini-hedge-fund" type partnerships in his hometown.

So being a son of a congressman surely helped in raising many many millions of dollars from the Nebraska elite. I would even argue its almost a necessary but insufficient condition for making his initial fortune - he got dealt a great hand but he also played it very very well.
That's true, although it's less unheard-of to have 24/7 public transit going ~20 miles out radially, providing about ~40 mile end-to-end coverage. Chicago runs two of its lines 24/7 (Red and Blue), which provide service about 15-20 miles to the N, S, & W. The 24/7 NY Subway, PATH, and LIRR service will take you similar distances.

If BART ran those kinds of distances 24/7, it would at least significantly increase the consistently-reachable zone. There's currently some all-nighter bus service, but it's not a great replacement (slow, nobody knows the routes, etc.).
That's not true:

"Although not one of the Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, it is identified with them, and prizes are announced with and awarded at the same ceremony."

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

The Nobel Foundation also lists the Prize in Economic Sciences on their website:

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/
Denial of service attacks are usually not devastating (they've happened to many large services multiple times) and there's a very real engineering cost in being absolutely certain that you are immune to such attacks.

I think most people here don't fall under the umbrella of those who need to consider denial-of-service attacks. When your primary goal should be to launch your product (which you aren't even sure will take off) I would think trying to prevent denial-of-service attacks is a waste of time.
That's true of all new ciphersuite proposals, isn't it? The Salsa20+Poly1305 proposal just replaces AES, CTR, and GHASH with Salsa20 and Poly1305.

The problem is getting the installed base up to TLS 1.2.
I completely agree :)

Success-styled self-help is a lot like the lottery. There are millions of analytical, intellectual, objective issues with each (e.g. YMMV, survival bias, terrible odds, etc.). What they have in common is they allow users to dream "what if" and have fun (e.g. "escape") with those dreams. Both advertise this fantastical thinking in terms of "how you can" -- either buy the lottery ticket or buy my book -- but they still mostly boil down to entertaining people with dreams.

And heck, I love dreaming as much as the next person and love articles (or his comics) like this for that very reason... but I don't get hung up on trying to predict whether the content is strictly perfect just as I can't predict whether a random number printed on cheap paper will be life-changing.
I am sorry you had such a bad experience with that boss. I have had similar experiences where bosses treat their employees as resources and not people. Of course there is value to having people in the office but not all the time and your employee's lives matter too.

I hope we see a trend towards organizations with a little more empathy for their communities, employees, and customers. Everyone is happier in this instance and a little hint - you usually make a good profit too. Being an empathetic employer and running a productive company are not mutually exclusive.
"America’s .0001% is becoming more meritocratic"

They make it sounds it should be comforting somehow. But I don't think it makes any difference. Does it matter whether they won the lottery, inherited, or "earned" their money? the fact is that very few people own much of the wealth.
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> So while everyone moving away from the city like folks in Manhattan do would be nice, it's not that easy here.

It's actually quite easy for people to not live in the central city, which is why of the 7.15 million people in the SF Bay Area metropolitan area, only a little over 800,000 live in the City and County of San Francisco. The ratio between the population of San Francisco and that of the whole metro area isn't really all that different than the ratio of Manhattan's population to that of the New York Metro Area.
People don't deserve to live in San Francisco (i.e. it's not some basic right that needs to be met through subsidized housing), but San Francisco deserves to have a diverse set of people if it is to be a great city, and not just a millionaire enclave.

From the city's point of view, there's a problem to be solved in terms of getting different kinds of people in the city.
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"whose distribution is indistinguishable from uniform"

Emphasis mine. Distribution here is not its English meaning, it is referring to the statistical term. Thus, it is talking about numbers "drawn from the uniform distribution", not "uniform numbers".

A PRNG drawing from the uniform distribution may produce that sequence (for any set that includes 1 and 2), but a PRNG that only produced that sequence would certainly not be drawing from the uniform distribution.
> Of course politics plays a role, but lets not pretend that there aren't very real physical bottlenecks to building in SF.

There's a difference between "physical challenges" and "physical bottlenecks" to building in SF. Of course there are physical challenges. I'm claiming that the physical challenges are not the bottleneck, or in other words, if people were legally allowed to purchase property, tear down existing buildings if necessary, and build new taller buildings, I strongly suspect they would do so.
I'm almost certain this would be illegal, as well as a breach of the computer misuse act. I've been wondering this myself though - it would have been cool to stick that plate on my car.
And now I'd like to say for the third time that no, there was no "just use MD5" meme in cryptography or in software development, and if TLS is an illustration of anything, it's of not simply leaning on MD5. Once again: the TLS protocol itself is not vulnerable because of MD5, and it's not vulnerable because its designers and implementors both knew about and accounted for the weaknesses of MD5.

The author took the opposite lesson from TLS than the one that it actually demonstrates, and the commenter above is harping on that broken lesson.
I'd like to take a moment here to be "That Guy" and throw a wet blanket on the Facebook hate train:

* The options given here are not at all representative of the actual Facebook privacy settings, which my freaking mother can understand.

* There is not a countdown attached to usage of the real privacy settings

* Privacy is not a binary thing you either have or don't. Checking the wrong option in Facebook might result in some piece of information being available for certain other people to view. That doesn't mean they necessarily did. Nor does it mean that you can't go back and change the setting around later.

* Facebook's redesigns were all centered around the goal of misleading people into publicizing information they didn't want to. /s

* Whatever point this game is trying to make is completely overshadowed by its tone.
Once you get used to the nuances of a place then you start to internalize its dangers in this way. I heard and experienced the same logic about threats while in the West Bank. The danger is really overblown, as long you don't drive that road over there...
Are you suggesting his privilege wrote his software for him? Much less had the vision to start a software company in the 1970s - which his parents thought was a bad idea. They did not like the idea of him dropping out, he did it anyway.

Paul Allen didn't come from any kind of privilege. So is the theory that he should be robbed of his amazing success and effort also, by association with Gates' association with his father and his father's association with Gates' grandfather? He did go to the same school as Gates after all.
The original paper breaks down finance between 3-4 categories. (If you google the title you can find free pdfs.)

We combined them to make it more clear for the casual reader.

~priceonomicist
I work for large host here is my take on this

1) They shut down my servers and suspended my account without notifying me.
If your server is doing 1Gbs outbound I would expect them to shut it down ASAP for many reasons. Likely a more senior person detected the issue and shut down the server, then passed it on to 1st line support to contact you.

2)After contacting them, they immediately accused me of "launching an attack from their platform".
You launched an attack vs a sever you are responsible for launched the attack, it's semantics but the support agent could certainly have worded it better, but not a big deal in my view.

3)After they performed their "investigation", they refused to give me any details and kept my account locked and servers offline.
The investigation probably wasn't any more than their networks team detecting very high outbound traffic originating from your VPS IP that was clearly malicious. In that case the only explanations are that you are deliberately breaking their terms or your server is compromised, there is nothing else to discuss. They should really have sent you some standard text helping realise the reality of the situation but it wouldn't have hanged anything.

4)They refused to give me a copy of my data which delayed getting it hosted elsewhere (had to get ssl certs reissued etc).
This is not great but if your server is compromised you have to accept that you will need to work from backups. First line support probably don't have a way of getting the data without starting the machine which they can't do in the circumstances. I'm sure one of their sysadmins could mount the virtual machine as a disk image to get the data for you, but that's not part of the service they offer or you're paying for. They can probably get your data given time and/or if you pay them but it's not reasonable for them to do this as a priority, especially as they are a budget host.
Yes, you could wear the clothes that fed that child that day.

Stuff isn't so black/white, I guess I'm trying to say.
The beauty of a systems approach is that it takes vastly less willpower. It is very counter-intuitive to most people: "Gee, doing that every day, that sounds so hard. I can barely get exercise twice a week; therefore exercising every single day must be much harder." Nope. Quite the opposite.

Hard is deciding every day whether you feel like going for a walk by arguing with yourself over whether you will feel better afterwards. That is effort spent with no satisfying payoff.
This is kind of like arguing that the way to fix LA's traffic problem is to build more freeways. For a time congestion will ease, and then before you know it there will just be more cars, and the traffic will return. More concrete, more cars, same problem.
I'm sorry for being unclear.

The authors define a a PRNG as a sequence such that, if you find its distribution (histogram), it resembles the uniform distribution (all values appear the same number of times).

In 1,2,1,2,1,2,..., all values appear the same number of times and its histogram is uniform. However, it is not random. It is clearly not random -- so it is distinguishable from a uniform "true random" sequence, which was my point.

However, as was explained to me by another commenter, what I missed is that you may group a number of consecutive numbers together and find the histogram of that, and, in that case, my sequence fails to have a uniform histogram.

So, at this point I'm willing to accept that the author's definition is correct and I just had a hole in my understanding.
This post was really insightful, they shut down my servers and suspended my account too without notification. I thought that it only happened to me, but it looks like it's a communal problem. Thanks!
It's also hard to stay on top, and it gets harder the closer you are: the turnover of individuals in these extreme upper brackets is high [0].

The composition of the very top income groups changed dramatically over time. Less than half (39% or 42% depending on the measure) of those in the top 1% in 1996 were still in the top 1% in 2005. Less than one-fourth of the individuals in the top 1/100th percent in 1996 remained in that group in 2005.

[0] http://ntj.tax.org/wwtax/ntjrec.nsf/F95C00D9840D35F2852575F4...
How much is a monthly pass for the tube + bus?
Or how about: So what if I can't do anything about big issues? There's usually something I can do because of those big issues.

If I'm aware of a war broiling in a certain country, I can avoid investing there. If I'm aware of market trends, I can plan my investments accordingly. If I believe immigration restrictions on educated workers will be loosened over the next fifty years, I can develop products that will be especially useful to people with green cards and white-collars.

Sure, you won't be able to do anything tomorrow, but that won't mean you ready yourself to seize opportunities that present themselves over the next decade or two.
Quotation needed about mother's involvement.

The story that I've read was that IBM had the hardware but didn't think they could make software on time so they went shopping for the OS. First they went to Digital Research who didn't want to do it. Microsoft jumped in and promised to deliver what would become MS-DOS. The rest is history.

In no way was Gate's mother instrumental in the process.

Citation: http://forwardthinking.pcmag.com/software/286148-the-rise-of...
Yup, all at once. Effects are 6-8 hours. Typically just 4 capsules.

Fish Oil is interesting in that at different dosages it acts differently. You have to basically mega-dose it to get the anti-anxiety and depression effects. (As always, YMMV)
Yeah... I'm honestly not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing with this visualization. :(
They do, but it's hilariously slow. It's so slow that it's often actually faster to wait for the next morning's Caltrain.

SamTrans runs all-night bus service from SF to Palo Alto, route 397. Once per hour, and the ride takes 2 hours, 15 minutes (!). From there you can switch to the all-night VTA route 22, which goes Palo Alto to San Jose. That's also approximately once per hour, and the trip takes about 1 hour, 15 minutes. With the connection time, you can make the overall trip in about 4 hours.
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I've added some comments in an issue: https://github.com/livebytes/docker-ghost/issues/1

Other than that looks pretty good :)
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Connections aren't results. Getting an introduction won't help you one iota if you can't deliver.

The only thing that ultimately matters in investing is results. Buffett is the absolute worst example you could use to claim privilege results. Unless your theory is that his father's friends made all those investment decisions for him.

Just about the hardest thing to do in business would be to generate a $300 billion company on the back of one man's dozens of investment decisions. Trying to rob Buffett of that stunning success because his grandfather owned some tiny stores in Omaha, is beyond ridiculous.
What you're saying is "The surest way to get rich is to be rich."

Real estate is just a way to invest money you already have. It doesn't generate wealth unless you have access to capital and can put deals together to develop properties and take a chunk. But that might as well put you in the "Finance" category.
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Shame, then. My thoughts exactly!
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Everyone has unique opportunities. We'll never have perfect equality of opportunity or social connections. Buffett and Gates weren't born into the lower strata of society, but nor were they born into the very upper elite. How many of Gates's classmates at his prep school or at Harvard did nearly as well as he? How often do children of congressmen/women become multibillionaires? We can divy up privilege endlessly (for having a lawyer dad, for having decent parents at all, for being born in the first world, for surviving infancy), but the only point of the article was to show whose wealth was inherited and whose was not.
I was unable to reproduce this using a Sprint HTC One running the newest software release (Android 4.3, HTC SW Version 3.04.651.2) - admittedly, timing does seem tight, but I tired it several times before giving up.

It'd be interesting to know if this is just something that HTC has already fixed, or if it is somehow related to a carrier-specific modification.
I always thought a better way to chaff the NSA/whoever would be sending off a bunch of emails with -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- and a bunch of /dev/random nonsense
Change isn't intrinsically bad. Change is bad when it removes characteristics of the neighborhood that caused people to move there in the first place.

See: Belltown in Seattle. Originally an artist neighborhood (as gentrifying neighborhoods tend to be), now completely devoid of art. Originally featured eclectic eateries and cafes, which attracted wealthier residents who liked the bohemian feel. Nowadays it's high-end chains and a lot of ostentatious lounges/clubs.

It's gotten to the point where Belltown is no longer really a desirable place to live, and the interest is now in Capitol Hill, where there is still an artistic/bohemian scene.

Change isn't bad, but in this case the pattern seems to be: residents move in attracted to X, driving X out in the process, everyone wonders where X went, and this starts the migration to another neighborhood in the search of X... Repeat ad infinitum.
> Bill Gates shouldn't be listed as someone who inherited his wealth: he did not inherit it.

According to Philip Greenspun, Bill Gates started off with a million-dollar trust fund:

"William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxwell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William (Bill) Henry Gates III."

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325
I am not terribly good with statistical terminology, but I don't think that the definition you're assuming for "uniform distribution" is the one in general use. Once you know a[n], a[n+1] will follow a delta distribution, not a uniform distribution.