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As a US-born Korean, American interventionism really bothers me. As others have discussed what happens when America tries to "make the world safe for democracy", the South Korean people and its government should be the sole arbiters of how they want to deal with these problems, instead of waiting to get a permission slip from Washington. There should be only one military force in South Korea, a South Korean military, under the command of the South Korean president.

I don't think it would be so bad. Both countries would still remain allies, and South Korea would still be under the US nuclear umbrella. The hope is that there wouldn't be any of this embarrassing vacillation in policy you just described.
Outsource tasks that cost human resources but are repetitive and easy to systemise. For example, you can outsource market lead generation, social media posting and other data entry for a few dollars an hour. Or get interns (be careful about the management cost of interns that will only stay for a short time).
Crucial reportedly has better support than that. My M4 would crash after 21 minutes (exactly-ish) over a year continuous service (100+GB/day), the latest firmware fixed the problem and increased speeds. The USB firmware updater was a god send compared to the vile vile hoops I had to jump through to upgrade my OCZ drive.

I currently have an Samsung 840 1TB and has been rock solid, it replaced a 250GB intel 320. Afaik Samsung is the only manufacturer that owns the whole supply chain, flash + controller.
Taking pure to mean referentially transparent, I'm not sure I understand your point here. If you are mutating a statically allocated struct or array passed by reference, doesn't that have a very similar effect to global variables? It makes the dependence explicit rather than implicit which is useful, but it is still effectively global state.
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Ho boy not this again...

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/3057
I've been working with PyV8 for nearly 3 years, and while it's an impressive achievement, I've had to start using a custom version to maintain stability. One of the major issues with PyV8 currently is that is builds against V8's master branch, as opposed to a known stable version. This means it breaks from time to time due to the speed of V8 development. There are also not releases of PyV8 per se. It's been v1.0 for quite awhile now, despite a year or more worth of fixes since the bump from v0.9 to v1.0.

I would LOVE to see tighter integration of Python and JavaScript, but if you are planning on using PyV8 in any production code (as I am), I would think very carefully about it.
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On a side issue, that kind of sucks too, subscriptions are cool, let's see how they get implemented over bitcoin.

Probably you could authorize your wallet holder to deduct a certanin amount each month.
Do they dictate things like emacs settings? I thought sprout was for stuff like ruby version and git configs.
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It's not pointless, just misrepresented. SSDs enable new classes of applications for high-performance, non-power-protected computers. With an SSD and Intel ULV CPU, I can put together a cheap high-performance computer with no moving parts and no batteries. That has the potential to be very robust and have an expected lifetime of decades, but only if the SSD is rock solid.
I left Apple last year after nearly a decade of using Apple products. I have a Zenbook Prime running Debian unstable now. I find Gnome Shell just as easy to use as OSX. In fact its more functional in many aspects like how quickly I can get to the things I'm looking for. That said, there are pros and cons to using OSX or Linux. But I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. I think people should use whatever floats their boat.
I've got an iPhone, iPad, and MBA. In an abstract sense -- that is, all other things equal -- I'd like to swap them out for non-Apple products. I dislike Apple's software, their entire "magic/creative/yadda-yadda-yadda" branding, and of course their price tag.

But the app ecosystem and hardware to me seem absolutely incomparable. I can't see myself ever switching my phone or tablet because it seems as though iOS apps are just unapproachably better than Android counterparts -- and there aren't any laptops as functional and, yes, straight-up pretty as the MacBook Air.

(The reason the author cited for switching from Apple was two failed laptops. For what it's worth, my previous laptop -- a Dell -- broke every six months or so. [I had four-year insurance, thankfully, and replaced it once the insurance ran out.]
The VPRI (vpri.org) has some interesting ideas with respect to your second bullet point.

Also, there was something about Arthur Whitney looking to build a stand-alone OS in/under K recently.
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I didn't downvote you. Two thoughts:

1. I read the whole thing three times and I still don't really understand what your objective is.... and do you actually know the purpose of the trolling thread or not. The purpose is to have fun and pretend one as a student who is under some stress and is trying to figure out some funny yet creative ways to brain fuck with the TA or professor. Even if it receives F, whatever.

> Treat resources as sincere, and those who wish to abuse them for temporary short term gain will, and I am very confident about this, end up fucking themselves over.

Well, most of the questions we ask on the Internet are really for short-term gain anyway. We hope someone could tell us why the fuck the X.so file is not linked and we move on afterward.

Most of the answers are actually not some quick jerky answers. people actually took time to write them. And in the process of writing an answer, the author learns. Ever heard of "one teaches, two learns?"

2. Why so serious? The Internet is full of shit half of the time. Wasting 100MB in the database for 100 trolling answers isn't going to kill some hungry child in Africa.
That actually raises an interesting idea. Does it say anything about the state of a technology when the design becomes a purchasing factor in addition to just the functionality?

In 1995 no one cared what a PC looked like. The driving factors were "You mean I can send a message...electronically!?", "I can chat with other people in a chatroom in real time!?", etc. But today those features are commonplace, and people really do care about how the product looks as much as the capabilities of the hardware. Does this imply some sort of plateau in the progress of the technology or the features it offers? I'd say yes - if a fully functional VR system were available tomorrow (think Oculus v10.0+) it's design would be almost irrelevant in light of the new experiences it offered.
The first few chapters of The Theoretical Minimum. There is a book and also a free set of online lectures.
I'm an anarchist saying those things, so hello there!
I tend to agree. I think agreeing within a group to differentiate based on honorifics can be useful if the group is homogenous enough in nature, but for a society in general it just creates arbitrary distinctions.
Thanks for the info. I actually went through a whole mechanical keyboard phase myself and went through several keyboards without numpads. I spent months using these keyboards, but in the end I found I was fastest and most comfortable typing on an Apple wired keyboard (heresy, I know). I much prefer the footprint of the Apple wireless keyboard, but I find that even though it seems like it'd be identical to the wired version, the keys aren't nearly as solid.

I am kind of curious about Topre switches, I haven't tried them yet. Only various Cherry switches.

I think the pinky RSI issue isn't so bad for me because most of the time I'm in a text editor with vi keybindings, so I wouldn't be using the arrow keys anyway. It's just nice in other apps to have that ability. In the situations where I do use my pinky, it's typically when I'm not typing very much, so I actually just move my left hand so my pinky rests over the Caps Lock key and doesn't need to move laterally. It's some movement, but still less than reaching over to the arrow keys.
Style is also important. Here's a great book on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Substance-Style-P-S-Virginia-Postrel-e...
Anyone have good reading material about 'how to reason mathematically' on a basic level? I mean, not going too deep into any specific topic, but how to get better at interpreting equations and grokking relationships.
This mac doesn't have RAID, if you want it you'll need the external rack they offer. For $1,500 you get 4 x 2TB hard drives, which will handle RAID 0, 1, 5, 50, 6, 10.

Otherwise you'll need to go find someone else who sells Thunderbolt racks.
Do disruptive technologies really overturn market leadership?
"There are so many things to do, and then I take a nap"
I find this to be pretty helpful as long as the resulting naps are pretty short - especially if I'm stressing out about work. I usually wake up with a much better understanding of whatever problem I'm dealing with. Debugging goes quickly, and I find it easy to reason about systems I was completely confused by an hour or two before.
Create <N> gmail accounts for <N> YouTube accounts.

Thats it.

Google owns this turf, so just find a way around.

Bitching about it is the way that doesn't work well.
Your link shows bzip2 having a more balanced compression time than lzma that is often 3-4 times slower. So for a tarball xz sounds indeed better as you compress once and uncompress many times. For compressing HTTP or things of the sort bzip2 might be better, but maybe for those cases gzip is already best.
"How to Solve It" by G. Polya is an excellent guide on how to approach mathematical problems.
I left Apple around the PPC->Intel transition, for Thinkpads (and recently, a Zenbook) running Debian. No regrets; life got much better; would not go back; YMMV. (I still have to use OS X and iOS machines regularly at work, and this only confirms my decision.)
I think Gödel, Escher Bach does a good job imparting the "mathematical mindset", albeit indirectly. It's a great read even if it's quite long and a bit repetitive. Definitely worth a read if you're not already familiar with abstract mathematics and formal logic.
The site didn't work in Opera. It worked in Chrome though.
Wait, these were quick ideas? I need to rewrite my grinch playbook.
I happen to like the hardware a bit more than when I first got the MBPr, but would LOVE to have a good Debian install guide for this puppy. Heck, I might even settle for Ubuntu in the meantime.
The article doesn't address what for me are the major sticking points: iTunes and iPhoto. I have years of music & photos stored in both, and to switch to linux I'd need an relatively painless migration strategy. Anyone have any suggestions?
Not so strange once you find out the some charter schools can effectively choose their populations via disciplinary measures. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/success-academ...
I have never known Paypal to be a company that improves their software. This may be the first rewrite since the 90s for all I know. Yes they have a business, but as a consumer and merchant on Paypal the overriding feeling I have always gotten is that they are on cruise control as far as engineering.

So when they say they changed to node and things got better, I just take it as, OMG, paypal tried to improved something and it improved.

Im sure it has nothing to do with node.
I have a mid-2011 Mac Mini and for a while considered an rMBP almost necessary. Instead of shelling out for one, I stuck a $40 SSD in a Lenovo x100e I had sitting around and installed Arch on it (after a decade or so of being a Slackware user). Best computing decision I ever made.

For one, I prefer the smaller form factor, trackpoint and much superior keyboard (even if it's still chiclet). Secondly, I hardly ever use X. I get so much more work done on this laptop than I can on any other computer and it's relatively distraction-free (I added a couple roguelikes and dwarf fortress). Just log in and tmux is ready to go with what I need to start working.

The one downside is that, on the occasions that I do use X, the fonts aren't very good. I wouldn't even begin to know how to approach making typography more Mac-like, but I'm okay with that. I spend 99% of my time in the console.

In fact, going forward I see myself using a VPS or running a dedicated server somewhere and then it doesn't really matter what laptop I use.
You are right, I was speaking to the compression ratios and decompression times. For cases where something is compressed once and decompressed many times I don't care much how long it takes to do the initial compression (within reason, of course).
> Anyone know how I can remap the Caps Lock key this way on a Mac?

Try keyremap4macbook: https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/
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You may enjoy Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Kline:

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Nonmathematician-Dover-Boo...

I have not read it, but I have heard it recommended many times by knowledgeable educators.
Are we just supposed to tolerate them turning their own people into dog food?

Of course, as eddie izzard says, it's all okay as long as you only kill your own people—just never step next door.
I have read that actually. I think it was much heavier on the 'logic' than the mathematics though, if you know what I mean. Great book though... love how it doesn't even really get started on its main topic (AI) until about three quarters in, having covered a vast range of supporting topics.
You're mistaken, the optics are irrelevant. It is the existence of an aperture through which the rays must pass that causes diffraction. You are correct in that resolution does not matter so much as density, but practical density is already hit and sensors are still quite large.
The fact that Rapgenius claimed to be in negotiations with Google does not mean that they are in fact having some sort of "migration to white hat strategy" personal meeting with Cutts in the same room.

"Live" person at Google might as well be delivering the old same beaten up "write unique content" and "remove bad links" message to them, albeit in personalized format.

I don't think rapgenius is big enough to buy Google a drink for a free personalized SEO tips.
wouldn't sleep sort be O(k), where k is the largest element to be sorted? (Assuming the clock and scheduler are precise enough to achieve the correct answer the first attempt).
Is sad but the MBA really has no rival, quality/hardware wise.
Have you seen the coursera introduction to mathematical thinking [1]?
That may be a good starting point.

[1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/maththink
I'll definitely add this to my "List of things to read"

A bit off topic, but you really know how to sell things :D
I agree, but I bet it wont be long before there are custom bamboo "sleeves" for it.
The OEMs have been quite terrible for a long time. Even Lenovo is a barely-trustworthy brand to me anymore -- and it's the only brand and they don't currently have anything in their product lineup that I'd be happy to use. Dell and HP have become especially crap. Toshiba, which used to be crap is now somehow the better mass-market OEM out there. I wouldn't spend my own money on anything from Asus; every single Asus product I've ever come across has failed in under 3 years.

What I really want is for Apple to make an iPad that will let me use a USB keyboard. Safari and SSH are all I need.
Why is North Korea such a hot topic these days? Is the US so free of problems, and other countries so free of human tragedies, that we can focus A LOT of our attention on North Korea?

I honestly think it's because North Korea is the easiest thing to paint as "the bad guys". Lots of easy "evil bits" for the media to cling on to:

They starve their people! They make people participate in charades! They withhold technology advances from their citizens!

But did you know there are countries with higher rates of undernourishment? How often have you seen these countries in the news?

-Zambia
-Ethiopia
-Mozambique
-Haiti
-Eritea

http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...

Oh that's right. There's not as much "news worthy" crazy happening in those countries. Maybe that's on purpose?

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013012931871/world/geopolitica...

Or maybe it's because we perceive the government is more "at fault" for the situation in North Korea as opposed to the above mentioned countries.

But is that fair? Aren't you equally liable for a starving population whether you've explicitly deprioritized it or not?

Let me wrap this up by saying
1) It's great you care about the situation in North Korea. It's terrible.
2) I hope that you'll consider caring about other countries facing similar humanitarian crises. I hope that you consider where to send your money weighing the facts as opposed to which is brought to your attention by the news.
I switched from ipods and ipod touches to android and I can't really see myself going back any time soon because of the ability to tweak and customize android. I don't miss any apps from ios and I don't think I have ever felt like an android app was worse than an ios version.
My favorite is "5KB". The prefix for kilo- is a lowercase 'k'. Uppercase 'K' is Kelvin. I don't even know how to conceptualize a Kelvin-Byte.
> GNU toolchain uses AT&T syntax

But also accepts Intel syntax with a directive, and even admits "almost all 80386 documents use Intel syntax" [1].

As for user acceptance, a poll on the xkcd forums shows that the vast majority of users prefer Intel syntax [2].

That takes care of the political/network effects arguments. As far as the actual technical arguments, the position against AT&T syntax is obvious and overwhelming -- the unnaturalness of src,dest operand order; the lazyness of the parser's authors at the expense of its users by requiring percents or dollar signs to indicate token types; the usually-redundant size postfix; and the utter incompatibility with basically all non-GNU x86 documentation.

[1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/i386_002dVariations....

[2] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=19558
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That's the problem. Apple's typography is well ahead of anything in the Linux world, and even Linux is still ahead of what Windows has.

The "Retina" screens make this even harder to match.
Here is another with lz4, lzo as well as lzma1, although they're not very relevant for the tarball test. Gzip -9 is on par with bzip2 -1 while almost twice as fast. And uses practically no memory(!).

http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip...
What if I have thousands of disks deployed, and I suffer a single power loss? What are the chances that at least one disk will contain corrupt data after such an event?

Instead of buying thousands of disks to test this scenario, one reasonable shortcut might be to repeatedly test a single disk.

Even a spinning disk can handle a few thousand power cycles in its lifetime, surely?
Ask PG: Does smoking marijuana affect the ability to hack and run a startup?
Throw away account. I have a startup in San Francisco, and smoking weed actually is quite therapeutic. It is an outlet for stress and the never-ending wall of burden. Development and startups are evolving so fast, and it often feels like you are never adequate. You always need to be learning and using X new language or technology. My startup is the hardest thing I've done so far in my life.

The culture of San Francisco also is heavily accepting, even promoting of smoking marijuana. Often times it feels like some of the best hackers I know smoke on a regular basis.

However, there are noticeable side-effects. Some short term memory loss, sometimes I find it difficult to stay focused, on-task, and motivated. On the flip side, I do some of my best hacking high. I'm able to focus on a single problem; become tunnel vision. Problems just become simpler.

Thoughts? Can, and should a startup founder, as a leader, and public face of a company smoke? Can you be an amazing hacker smoking consistently?
What I find rather annoying is that manufacturers/marketers rarely state whether or not an SSD has a supercapacitor or not. Here have been my finding:

- OCZ Vertex 4 SSD does (but this is not advertised)

- OCZ Vertex 3 does not, Vertex 3 Pro does

- Ditto for Vertex 2 / Vertex 2 Pro

- OCZ Deneva(2) R does, other OCZ Deneva/Deneva 2 do not -- and in the case of Deneva 2 R this is advertized

- Intel 320 does (but is only sata II), but this is not advertised at all

- Intel 520/530 does not

- Intel 330/335: unclear

- Intel S3700/S3500: does and this is advertised

Background: I was looking for an SSD to use for a ZFS intent log ("ZIL" -- ZFS's write ahead log) -- my requirements were a sandforce controller (or equivalent) and toggle NAND (so that I could use the same disk for both ZFS cache and the ZIL), and a supercap. This was surprisingly hard to find.

What I'd like to see is:

1) Data on which SSDs have supercap

2) Data on which SSDs actually honour cache flush request (then a UPS + forcing a cache flush request upon power failure + redundant power supplies/multiple replicas in a distributed system) would suffice.

3) Best yet: have an API for for check whether or not an SSD has a supercap, whether or not the supercap still holds charge, and policy for honouring cache flush requests. Let the OS decide based on a policy I set.

If you are a consumer, the practical recommendation is not very different from the practical recommendation I'd give to anyone using spinning disks: RAID1/1+0/RAIDZ(-2) (with SSDs coming from different patches so that they do not wear out at the same time), UPS (for power outages), backups (against yourself and against power supply failures).

For production: obviously use a UPS, put the WAL of your database on an SSD with a supercap, make sure that your database fsync()'s the WAL at a reasonable interval (on every transaction is probably unreasonable, but so is once an hour), and use a distributed system that replicates the WAL. If using a distributed system with (semi-)synchronous WAL replication is not an option and losing incremental data is not acceptable, use redundant power supplies.
For sure, but I'm not such a typography nerd that what's on Linux is unacceptable to me. Ultimately I'm going to get my work done however is most efficient; that just tends to be Linux. My Mac (which I'm using now) is great for web browsing and reading articles. I'd sooner use my Kindle for that than my Linux laptop though and often I do.

Once Apple makes a retina iPad around 10 inches and lets me use my own USB keyboard, I'll never use anything else. If that iPad Pro rumor pans out, it'd better have USB.
If you want to be really pedantic, differentiate SI giga/megabytes as GB/MB and "binary" gibi/mebibytes as GiB/MiB
The author was having hardware problems, so he switched his software? There's nothing more open about Dell's hardware than Apple's and just because Dell offers a laptop with Linux does that mean you're now in some sort of open-source utopia where the open-source community comes together to solve every single computer problem that users encounter.

Don't get me wrong, I think Linux is great and there's tons of awesome open-source projects, but I don't think Ubuntu is one of them. If you've been following Canonical's behavior with Ubuntu over the past few years, you should be aware of what I'm talking about. And Dell? Well, their XPS laptops do seem to be of higher quality than what most of the PC industry offers, but support? I'm sorry, but I feel much more confidence in the Genius Bar.

Apple's not perfect, but the rest of the latop manufacturers are a joke.
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Ooh, that's the best answer I've seen yet. Perfect!
Have you tried using any of the cloud photo organizers? openphoto comes to mind.