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@Altero. You are wrong on many different levels.

Antisemitism in USSR was rampant before 60s as well, and in Eastern Slavic regions in general, even before USSR

Read history of cities such as Gomel or Bobruysk.

http://www.jewishgomel.com/en/Jewish-history-og-Gomel
"...
The wave of pogroms in Imperial Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century did not bypass Gomel. From August 29 - September 1, 1903, there was a pogrom in Gomel, during which ten Jews were killed, many were wounded and much Jewish property was looted. A Jewish self-defense was able to rebuff the pogrom, the first time in the history of the Russian Empire. After the pogrom there was a famous trial in Gomel (October 1904 - January 1905, November 1906), where not just the perpetrators of the pogrom were tried but also the 36 members of the Jewish self-defense.
...."

Also please do not forget one of the main drivers for the subsequent prosecutions, a document forgery called 'Protocols'

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

"...
The Protocols appeared in print in the Russian Empire as early as 1903. The antisemitic tract was published as a serialized set of articles in Znamya, a Black Hundreds newspaper owned by Pavel Krushevan. It appeared again in 1905 as a final chapter (Chapter XII) of a second edition of Velikoe v malom i antikhrist (The Great in the Small & Antichrist), a book by Serge Nilus. In 1906, it appeared in pamphlet form edited by G. Butmi.[25]
..."

So your claim
"... Antisemitism started in 60ties, after Israel becomed US oriented and several people from soviet union emigrated there. ..."
is patently false.

This story in the OP brought tears to my eyes. I was no where near as good in mathematics as E Frenkel, but having a Jewish mother, and half Armenian father (and therefore Armenian last name) -- insured that even if I had 5 times more talent I did -- I would still not win the admission game.

Essentially the 'rektor' (or the dean) of University I was going to, apparently said (and, no, I did not hear it directly) -- that '... he was not going to prepare workforce for israel, and that's why admitting Jews was not in his interest).

Having parents whose last name is Armenian or/and Jewish-sounding, is the an obstacle that could realistically be overcome either by avoiding it (e.g. going to a place where Jews could get in) or 'special friends', or a bribe.

My grandparents, especially my maternal granddad had it much worse. Every time I think I am stressing over things -- all I had to do is to remember what he went through
(Buchenwald than Russian prison, where he was tortured by authorities asking him how he could survive Buchenvald while being a Jew)

Important though that neither my grandparents, nor I, nor my parents -- ever wanted to have some kind of 'affirmative' action or 'institutionalized help' as a repayment for previous mistreatment.
Instead, all we ever wanted is to be treated 'the same'.

I rarely write or reply on this kinds of topics, but seeing this story, and then a Altero's statement based, I presume, on the lack of knowledge, elicited this reply.

Apologies if it was a bit emotional.
I liked that Microsoft had to include hacks to get around IE bugs on that page.

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South Park made a whole episode about this (re: Apple's terms of use) a few years ago:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humance...
That the system is in the black doesn't necessitate that program is not in fact a subsidy. If the market interest rate is 5% and the gov loans at 2%, assuming no defaults, the program will appear to be in the black while still subsidising borrowers at the expense of taxpayers. Moreover, when you say "fair for people like us to subsidize the people who pursue public service" you seem to imply that the tax is progressive when in fact is not since most people going to college are middle and upper middle class. Finally, this doesn't address the question of who is providing a public service. Are private for profit orgs not providing a public service?
This is what pushed me over the edge.

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/
"Mac OS X"
it's very hard to take seriously advice over long lasting happiness from a 22 year old.
These are his earlier columns:

May 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thesaddes...

July 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhor...

September 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/nestofhor...

November 2013 - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw...
Doubt it, but keeping thinking those silly things if it makes you happy!
I share the same point of view “choose work” thing. Even if I agree with you, reading the post (http://danielflopes.com/choosework/), at least the first part of it, makes it feel like it's some kind of a military life, while it's not the case, at least on my side. It's all about the way you present the thing or yourself and in this particular case the post's tone is too much ”rude”, ”strong“, ”military“. It sound like cult propaganda. The second part fails to lower the stress the first part provide. Form advice: The text must be longer, with citations & explanations. Content advice: Work Work Work. What does it mean anyway? When I learn a new technology, I don't feel like I'm working, when I code at home most of the time I don't feel like I'm working... What is significant in my particular case is ”focus (on the craft)”. CS is my passion, I want to learn it, but that's not the only thing I do, as working on any target also means that I need to take the time to break the loop to breath fresh air (with or without focus on self-improvement). Good focus needs a balanced-life.
Looks like my Gentoo machine is being recognized as Windows 8.1.
No More Woof Aims to Read Dogs' Minds
2014 Predictions for Big Data Distributed Systems.
> Meanwhile, it is still socially acceptable for men to focus wholeheartedly on their career.

Right, but so maybe the goal shouldn't be that women should be able to do the same... what if it could instead stop being socially acceptable for men to focus wholeheartedly on their career?

Think of all the men who wish they'd spent more time with their kinds, instead of at the office. More time with their wives. Think of all the divorces caused by the long hours and stress of management and C-suite jobs. Even if men want to spend more time with their families, it's often just not socially acceptable, within the culture of their company/industry. Men who take full advantage of "maternity" leave aren't exactly looked at as promotion material, all too often. And think of how much of life they miss out on.

We hold up Steve Jobs as a model of shining corporate success. But it's become public knowledge that he wasn't exactly so shining when it came to being a good dad.

Maybe it's not just necessarily the mindset around women that needs to change -- maybe it's the mindset around men.
I had one of these recently but didn't realize I could just decline it. I stuck firm with my "Nothing personal, just moving on to something new" rationale for leaving and basically answered all the questions in a "10/10 would work here again" kind of way. I figured any actual constructive criticism would be ignored anyway.
LATINO ILLUMINATI
MIAMI'S MOST CONTROVERSAL DUBSTEP GROUP HAS POSTED TWO NEW EYEBROW-RAISING SONGS. THE SONGS DISCUSS ACTIVITY SUCH AS GIVING BLOOD AND PERFORMING BLACK MAGICK ON WOMEN. IS THE ILLUMINATI MAKING ITS WAY INTO THE LATINO COMMUNITY AS WELL?
> This clause just seems like a way to give a company the option to sue you for anything at all, regardless of whether it caused them any damages

Or if it's true.
Whenever I see one of these articles, I can't believe how narrow the author's view of the world is that they can't imagine these drones actually working.

Imagine if they put a small warehouse in a big city, filled with their most commonly sold items in that city. (For now we'll pretend the warehouse/dronepad is on the roof of their Seattle headquarters, right in the center of Seattle)

I can SEE Amazon's buildings from my apartment right now. It's probably a mile or two as the crow (or drone) flies. That seems well within the range of what Bezos talked about for Prime Air. I also have a rooftop deck on my building that only residents can access. It's pretty big and would be a perfect place for a drone landing pad.

There are probably a hundred similar apartment buildings all within a 10 mile radius of Amazon. They would all be able to easily handle drone deliveries from this small, centralized, micro-warehouse.

Can commercial drones handle straight line flying with building sized object avoidance over a space of a couple miles? I think so.

Will they "in a few years" just like Bezos said? Absolutely.

Just because it won't work in rural south dakota or the suburbs of Detroit Michigan, doesn't mean that it won't work somewhere.

Like the author said, Amazon trialed fresh for FIVE years before taking it out of Seattle. What's to say they won't do the same thing with Prime Air?

(Just in case anyone is wondering, I don't work for Amazon)
Subsidies to mothers are already massive.

For example: Free k-12 school. That's a $3-10k/year subsidy right there (taxpayers spend $11,073 on this $3k-$10k subsidy - what a deal!).

Another example: Many states require paid maternity leave (is this Federal now?). That's a pretty massive subsidy!

Another example: We do have super high rates of child support in the Anglosphere, you know. Look to France & others for more sane approaches to this subject and more sane rates. (France & sane? I'm serious!).

Where does this all end? What level of subsidization is sufficient?

I bet someone even responds to me with a 'for the children' comment. You watch.
I am currently awaiting a 60 day notice, as 80% of the company is being laid off. Our parent company recently laid off a number of folks who only got 30 as the company is eliminating a large portion of the company.
Me too, maybe we can start a kickstarter project to make that happen!
Not in this direct line of software of the encrypt multiple documents and only out 1 based on pass-phrase, this would be unique (as far as I can tell).

True crypt tells you how to set this up, but not do this automatically. Also it would require you selecting which volume, not just "insert password get document"

This would offer a higher degree of plausible-deniablity, and portability, by making it a file its not tied to one location. The structure of the file, and multiple hashes also grant plausable deniability why you can't just decrypt the entire file in one go and compare the 2 documents SHA hashes.

Would it stand up in court? No. It would help avoid less tech savvy people.
I consider myself to have a good life. I'm not always in the office working, and I actually spend a lot of time working out and taking care of my best friends and meeting new people.

I only try to minimize doing what in nothing contributes to my life or the others around me. That's why, for example, I like to read books that in someway intersect what I do in my job. But that doesn't mean that I never try new stuff and read a good one like "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

And for me, the best way to not "waste time" is by trying to merge your job with what you want with your life, since we already spend so much time on it.

I do not have kids. I've recently started a relationship, and I admit that I've been asking myself what's the best way to balance these. I get your point.
Perhaps they are simply assuming Windows 8.1 and everyone else have the best support for web standards and they only need to check if you are some other version of Windows in order to deal with them specifically.

Or they only need to customize content based on Windows versions and if you're using the latest or something non-MS, you probably want to see stuff about the latest Windows version.
Yes, but it's protected by law. Look at how difficult it is for Tesla to sell via a more direct method, without using dealerships.
>All travels do not need to bring you to expensive places.

Absolutely. But tens of millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, so they can't even afford to take a week or two off and stay at home reading/relaxing/playing with the kids/whatever.

Basically, they are slaves, they just don't know it.
To clarify, I am saying "true" to the fact that colleges have plenty of reverse discrimination programs. I stand by my statement that these programs were not necessarily responsible for getting women into medicine. In fact, I'm pretty sure you can go ask any women why she got into medicine, and her response probably won't be "well, the colleges were giving awesome scholarships to women at the time." It will more likely be "I wanted to get into a field where I could help people" or some such thing. In fact, you will rarely find people who chose their profession based on how much sexism was present. Rather (odd as it is!) people tend to choose the profession they are interested in pursuing, or one that has a good salary.
Actually you are a good confirmation of the bias. You didn't start until college, and you don't like to code.
My girlfriend got me a pair of wooden glasses for Christmas that I love and they seem really well made. Her friend's husband's company makes them, it's definitely possible to make nice glasses out of wood that are durable.
I'll bet in a short time, we'll see usage of drones inside the warehouses to sort out packages and load them onto trucks for long hauls more efficiently (and with less labor cost) than what's currently being done by humans.
The liver produces all the glucose that your body needs, which is mostly used by the brain. The likely consequence is that you might need to eat more protein to replace the amino acids scavenged for this purpose.

In practice, you cannot contract a dietary deficiency disease from eliminating sugar unless you have a genetic defect affecting liver function. Even if you also eat no protein, your body will self-cannibalize muscle tissue to keep the brain alive.

It appears as though the evolutionary pressures on humans have produced support for two different energy metabolisms. In times of feast, where sugars and starches are consumed in excess, the body operates on glucose and glycogen, and stores fat. In times of famine, the body operates on ketones produced from its own body fat, and the brain operates on a combination of lactic acid and sugars scavenged from the body's protein stores.

The potential consequence of this is that if you ever do start eating significant quantities of sugar, your body will chemically signal that famine is over, and prioritize the restoration of your body fat stores. In other words, you can never go off the diet if you want to maintain your weight, as your body will want to turn every last scrap of excess sugar into fat as fast as possible.

This seriously sucks, because the brain is hardwired to love sweeter foods--foods that surround us constantly. It's like Lou Wu from Niven's Ringworld resisting the urge to eat the magic sweet potato that turns Pak breeders into protectors. Your limbic center wants that doughnut, no matter what that prudish frontal lobe says. So low-carb dieters have to consistently maintain a high level of sheer willpower for their entire lives. That may not be physically stressful in the cortisol-producing sense, but it is stressful mentally.
Does anyone know what monospace font is used in Elysium? I thought while watching it that it was a really good looking font. I'd love to use it myself.

Screenshot from the blog: http://25.media.tumblr.com/03cdd6a57e4e8227386f5affce47c627/...
If the company says "sign in the next 5 minutes or else" than maybe. But the company wants you to sign.

And the lawyers who crafted up the contract don't want it to be thrown out for some stupid reason, so they will advise your (about to be ex-)employer to let you take it home to read it and think about it.
Don't use photoshop to design interfaces, use css, html, illustrator and photoshop to design interfaces.

Interfaces are not two dimensional and static, they are three dimensional (time) in the sense that hey have to be interactive. Flat graphics are not interactive.

If you are going to just use photoshop, use a pencil, it's cheaper and easier.
Not necessarily. They probably wouldn't even notice the clause in the contract until you pointed it out when you refused to sign the disparagement clause.

As an aside, the last time I got "severance" was in 2003 - my severance was a free lunch. It was a good company that went out of business.
I mean natural language as "language for humans to use to communicate with each other" as opposed to programming language as "language for humans to use to communicate with computers". It's the same meaning as is used in NLP.

e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic and I guess even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language

This is different than the meaning of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructed_language

I guess if you want to get pedantic a better term might be "Orthographic design".
>I haven't yet seen any evidence that a concept like "wanting" or "desire" have any meaning outside the context of humans.

Those specific feelings/emotions, no. But AIs do have utility functions, or in the case of reinforcement learning, reward and punishment signals (which itself is essentially a utility function.)

>I simply also doubt we could produce an AI in this fashion. I mean, you couldn't train functional human by putting him/her in room with just rewards and punishment.

Possibly. It's just an example to illustrate how difficult the problem of coding abstract, high level goals into an AI is.
There's really nothing sane about iOS/the iPhone when the government has full control over it.

The only sane thing to do is have it recycled.
Strange. Mine is CS5, works perfectly.
Oooh.
You lost 10% because you claim things that only 22 year olds do and thus wont be delivering insights to people 32.

You have much to learn yet, we all do :)
MassRoots Building Digital Hub for Multi-Billion Cannabis Industry
must read: http://cultureandempire.com/‎
> I think I get to keep last year’s Christmas gift of an iPad, and the previous year’s bottle of wine has long been drunk

A way to reduce burn rate could have included slightly less lavish gifts.
ensure scientific accuracy in them

That phrase strikes me as almost redundant. Since ensuring accuracy is what "science" is supposed to be about.
This is great, and something I looked into when I was pursuing my bachelors, but it's important to note this is something ONLY worth considering after finishing a relevant udacity/mit course, and then making sure the syllabus matches up with that of the local university's teacher's that will be administering the exam.

Also, at my school, which was a mediocre local university, I believe you still needed 70% to pass an examination for accreditation.
Ruby has it too.
From this short survey we can't really know if it's "developers stick to Python 2", or "have tried Python 3, but migrated because of X", or "haven't tried Python 3 yet", or "work daily on a project that will not be ported to Python 3 as long as possible".

I would expect that the last group is really big - imagine a company with a huge python 2 codebase. You're not going to just say "let's port everything" without a good reason for it. Even after you do, you have to port and prove all your dependencies are working correctly, only then going for the big projects. So while most people will still describe themselves as people working primarily with python 2, there may be a person or two in their teams, who already work on porting...
I was pleasantly surprised by these results. Language adaption is not linear, it follows an S curve. So while 22% are on Python 3 after 5 years, we can expect to reach 80% much faster.
The company should be having that grownup conversation well before I leave. If my manager does not know why I'm leaving, they haven't been doing their job as a manager...which may be one of the reasons I'm leaving. :-)

Of the companies I've worked for that hold exit interviews, and I've had conversations with ex-coworkers about what they said at the exit interview, it would appear that it doesn't make any difference anyway. So why open yourself up to any liability, or help relieve your ex-employer of any liability? Don't waste your time, or even their time for that matter.
That's the problem: vacuousness. If work is defined as what makes you happy, there's no choice to be made.
For your golang test did you have GOMAXPROCS set to the number of CPU cores in your system?
This is useful if one has NEVER touched photoshop, but I already have a reasonably solid grasp on even intermediate features of Photoshop. Does anyone have some resources on best practices for getting a mockup done if you already know these things but know little of 'good design' other than 'make it responsive and minimalistic'?
This sounds awesome, but I cannot for the life of me understand why the Podcast feed for This American Life only contains one goddamn entry. Who uses this shit? What is the point of a podcast if I can't download it in my podcast software of choice on my home Wi-Fi network and listen to it at my leisure?

Am I missing something with a typical podcast workflow? Because this makes zero sense.
Your vitriol is completely misplaced.

Pull to refresh isn't flashy, shallow or trivial, and it shouldn't bring on emesis: It is a simple, convenient user interaction that saves putting a big refresh button or the like.
You maybe quite right, but from materials I presented in this thread one may suggest that there was a policy of enforced brain supply to regional applied sciences institutions, that is why guys were refused entry to Moscow best universities. The reasons for this hidden regulation may have been purely pragmatic.
You don't get it.

In the case of MongoDB, a system that was designed to make SQL injection attacks a non-issue, in which they were a non-issue in other languages, were noticed several years later to suffer from SQL injection attacks in PHP and PHP only.

The cause is that the language, behind programmers backs, could let users supply a data structure where it looked like you'd only get a string. And would only have had a string in other languages.

PHP is not the only language with problems like this. For example Ruby on Rails about a year ago had a series of bugs that were due to a similar design flaw. But this type of mistake has, for years, been more common in PHP than in any other programming environment. And PHP programmers like you who think that they can just follow a couple of well-known guidelines for databases and be safe, who fail to understand when you are told directly that the problems are bigger, are a big part of why PHP continues to have these problems.