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The number refers to the capacity of working memory and has indeed been revised over time. It's a complicated issue, but 4 units of information is now considered a more accurate approximation. But if you're remembering a password, you're dealing with long-term memory, which doesn't have this limitation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#Capacity
We fucked up our own survival,and future generations will hate us for that.

Earth will go on for billions of years after we are gone.
The Economist does a quick dive into the issues raised by this piece and why they don't fundamentally change anything:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2014/05/inequali...

> The fourth question is whether the book's conclusions are called into question by Mr Giles's analysis. If the work that has been presented by Mr Giles represents the full extent of the problems, then the answer is a definitive no, for three reasons. First, the book rests on much more than wealth-inequality figures. Second, the differences in the wealth-inequality figures are, with the exception of Britain, too minor to alter the picture. And third, as Mr Piketty notes in his response, Chapter 10 is not the only analysis of wealth inequality out there, and forthcoming work by other economists (some conclusions of which can be seen here) suggests that Mr Piketty's figures actually understate the true extent of growth in the concentration of wealth.
I do, yes. I was using Windows at the time, unfortunately. So I wasn't aware of a tool like Grep (or that it was available for Windows as a downloadable tool). Besides, I was looking for an excuse to learn a bit of programming, some sort of practical, small-scale project, so it worked out. ;)
IME it's less about the content leaking and more about an anonymous party making weird edits to the document and you not noticing
If there's a plausible chance of the entity being able to experience emotion, then the burden of proof needs to be on the inflicter. "Plausible" because inanimate objects like rocks obviously cannot ever have emotions.

Things get a little more complicated with plants, such as trees and flowers, but even there I would say it's pretty implausible that they experience emotion.
You need to separate writing systems and language there, though. Unlike the Chinese writing system that it bears superficial resemblance to, Hangul is an alphabet, and it's more purely and consistently phonographic than most writing systems in widespread use. Many of the letter shapes are actually based on things like tongue position and mouth shape when making a particular sound - and there's only roughly as many of them as there are Latin letters. It was specifically designed to be fast and easy to learn, to promote mass literacy. (Both the scientific rigor and the noble motivation that went into it, and the resulting elegance, give it a lot of geeky appeal really.)

So it's actually quite easy to pick up and be able to read it fluently (you can have your first successes within 15 minutes, and have it pretty much down within days). Here, have a comic: http://www.ryanestrada.com/learntoreadkoreanin15minutes/inde...

Actually learning Korean OTOH is another matter entirely, though :) (don't I know it ...).

Anyway, I think even without the ability to understand the words, type designers have experience and knowledge they could usefully apply to the Hangul script. I recently read this nice series by William Berkson on a new revival of Caslon's designs he's been making:

http://ilovetypography.com/2010/11/02/reviving-caslon-part-2...

All that stuff he touches on there - rhythm, visualizations of regularity, avoiding the picket fence effect, etc. - should apply equally to making a good Hangul typeface. Or if not that, then the same sort of thinking and methodology could lead to new truths about what makes a good Hangul typeface.

I think what might actually be keeping designers from it though is the awareness that Hangul design is embedded into a very different typographic lineage, i.e. Chinese calligraphy and such. Their own Latin designs frequently pay homage to the past - reviving Caslon is a good example - and it must be a stark naked feeling to lack the same sort of historical and cultural awareness when trying to navigate Hangul typography. It definitely takes a lot of ego for someone from the West to show up and say they can just make a better Hangul font, I suppose - but I still wish more would be that ballsy.

After all, eyeballs and computer screens work the same everywhere.
Supply and demand is more of a guideline than a strict rule (as is almost everything in economics).

Monopoly pricing could result in lower than market pricing if 1) they have enough supply to satiate the market demand and 2) they want to continue to price any competition out of the market. By keeping prices lower they stop existing competition from being able to make a profit and they stop new competition from being able to justify the costs to start mining operations.

In other words, in a market that anyone can enter, a monopoly can establish a continued monopoly by ensuring that they are the sole supplier of goods in that market. If it becomes too profitable, then other competition will naturally start eating at your market share.

Note: I'm not saying this is what happened with DeBeers.
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This is really good idea :)
The last (and only) time I used this it ended up adding all my development-focused extensions to my SO's Chrome profile, then when she removed them made a mess of my Chrome configuration on other systems, so YMMV.
An interesting solution to troll comments would be auto-detection via Machine Learning. For a class final some friends and I wrote an algorithm (neural networks and SVM's) to detect intentionally deceptive comments on hotel-review sites. It worked with about 82% accuracy. I'd imagine something very similar could be done with troll comments.
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I really doubt that he spent a few hours fiddling with regexps. 'Those darn @ signs! Just how do I match them?!' I suspect the few hours had to do more with the part he mentions about extracting the embedded text from a PDF. (I've seen a lot of PDFs where a standard tool like pdf2text spits out garbage.)
I think that can be answered quite briefly: Malicious people exist and they can use things we consider private against you. We are inherently imperfect and thus we define a protected space in which we can can happily be imperfect without spending energy on worrying about it.
Happy to check out Office if you can assure me that you won't resell my data or give it to the NSA, as claimed by X-Keyscore :)
As a Linux user I breathe a sigh of relief when I get a Docs link rather than a complicated pptx file that won't render properly and I can't edit.
I started using this a few months ago. It definitely helps a lot, but it can still break the workflow.

Using OSX, when I click on a link inside Mail, it opens it in Chrome using the last used user. It's annoying when it's the wrong user. You still need to switch users and reopen the link in Chrome.
Diamond is used everywhere in tons of applications. It's especially useful in cutting and drilling of metal and stone. Although contra to the GP's point, industrial diamonds are in a completely separate market from gemstone diamonds and de beers' monopoly doesn't have much effect on that. You can find diamond tipped and coated tools at any local hardware store, for example, at quite reasonable prices.
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Do you find some kind of solace in your (unfounded) assumption that the earth will outlive humanity?
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I've just had great fun trying to test in app purchases on an android app with multiple Google accounts. They don't make these things terribly simple.
@daniel_levine Thanks, I will consider that in future updates.
It is also great for web development. Have one user profile that has all the password managers, adblocks, etc not installed.
It's completely true. The most valuable part of my CS education has been the general design and problem solving skills. The ability to modularize problems and solve them incrementally, as well as implement correct and efficient solutions is applicable in every aspect in life. People often think coding is just about the language.. That's really the least important part.
Assuming you mean wordpass doesn't exist: try "cabal update" first.

If you mean cabal doesn't exist, you'll need to install the Haskell Platform first. There may be a package for your distro (or Homebrew).
But wouldn't being illiterate in Hangul be the most effective "Lorem Ipsum"?
That seems like a strange anecdote to me.

The only reason I can think of to shutdown a production SQL database would be to do maintenance. In which case any sane admin should be taking a backup in advance. That should be the first step.

If the database is not a production server, does it matter if data was lost?

If the production database crashed/bugged out and therefore needed to be halted, was it really ready for production in the first place?

I don't mean to offend, but it sounds like your partner is a bit of a doofus.
This popped up for emacs: https://gist.github.com/robtillotson/5d162f9674ad9c207d44
Now that Google is so entrenched both in personal and corporate life, they really need to step up to handle ALL of the corner cases.
Standard new grad package at Google gives you over $120k worth of equity over 4 years, and I think additional $30k a year is definitely worth mentioning. For more experienced people it's obviously even more, and if you manage to stay for 4 years, the next stock grant will probably be significantly higher to keep you and your acquired inside knowledge inside the company.
I think you're misinformed if you think brain development can be said to taper off in any way over 18 years.

That's not what I said, and the advantage you talked about supposedly does taper off until the child is around 12.

(edited for clarity)
I TA'd an entry-level CS 100 class, it counted as a core science credit and covered a good variety of the field of CS with the time it had. The curriculum was something along the lines of: hardware basics, binary math and logic, basic programming, algorithms, computer graphics, crypto, AI. Granted they didn't get very deep into any one topic but a few students came out of that class with the intention of switching to a CS major, and the others got more than they had anticipated from the class. Most of the students enjoyed programming in Scratch, except for those that had programmed before. Coincidentally, I was blown away by what some people managed to do with Scratch in a couple weeks.

The professor was recently written up in the NYT for her efforts to get a more solid CS curriculum into highschools, so perhaps this was an unusual course offering.
FYI synthetic diamonds are much better than natural diamonds for that, and a lot cheaper too.
I've had this issue constantly, as I have three separate accounts (work, personal gmail, and non-gmail google account). Lately, I had one of the worst situations though.

Coworker sent me an invitation to join a calendar. I click the link, it takes me to my personal gmail calendar page and pops up a dialog saying 'You don't have access to this!'.

I close the dialog, then click on the account change thing to switch over to my main account, and close the old tab. Click the link again. Opens my personal calendar again. I had to log out of everything then log into this account (all of this manually) before I could view the calendar.

Thankfully I didn't care enough and ignored the calendar invite.
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I have the same problem. Every time I go to Google Docs it keeps making me choose a user, then I choose a user, then it doesn't let me in and makes me choose again. It does this even for the root subdomain. I end up having to open any Google Docs URL with a different browser where I only ever login with one account. One of the several accounts it always tries to use isn't even active any more, it's an expired Google Apps account from back when they started charging and it still always offers it even if I'm signed out.
I personally think that the price of the diamonds is almost exclusively determined by the marketing success.

One very interesting bit in the article somebody's mentioned about De Beers story is that artificial diamonds are already cheaper than natural ones, and virtually undistinguishable. De Beer's response has been to produce machines than can distinguish natural diamonds from artificial ones.

My conclusion is that people who wants diamonds want simply something expensive, as status symbol. They don't want a shiny rock at the most reasonable price, otherwise, it wouldn't be a status symbol anymore.

If prices would fell, the perception of diamonds would change drastically, and I don't think that the industry (cartel or not) is going to allow that.
man, I wonder what happened to those guys? I was able to remain employed through the dot-com crash, but I know many people who were obviously better than I was that did not. It seems like it would have been brutal for a fresh graduate with no experience in '01.
Yeah, chrome profiles is the answer.
I typically have two chrome windows open, one with my work account and one for personal. Each is linked to the corresponding Google account. This gives the advantage of chrome sync (bookmark sync, etc.)

That said, the OP had 4 google accounts, so I can see how this could get messy.
Can't Libre office deal with pptx by now?
I'm using Simplenote as platform to save notes. It has iOS app for iPhone and iPad, OSX app, web app. nvAlt also can sync with Simplenote via provided API. And it's free. Tagging, review history are also supported.

One thing I can't be satisfied with Simplenote it's iPhone app. It's very simple and UI is great but overall experience when editing and copy/pasting text is poor compared to native iOS notes.

As of this app - do you provide some API to get notes back from your app? iCloud doesn't and it's sometimes not very useful.
The Google assumption seems to be that you have one Google account, which is your singular identity. The reality for many people is that they have multiple Google accounts, none of which is their singular identity. The multi-account support they've added only serves to inadvertently spread your data across multiple accounts, rather than make it easier to work with them.

As an example, I ended up on YouTube the other day and, for some reason, was logged into my work Google account; curious, I clicked on 'Favorites' and found that some videos that I'd favourited once (and later been unable to find) were favourited there. Frustrating. There was also a moderate browsing history of videos, some of which I had likewise been looking for in the past.

Honestly, if it weren't for YouTube favourites I probably wouldn't log into any Google websites at all.
I hope with you but that looks like something that needs attention, don't wait too long with addressing all this, once tempers get frayed it is a lot harder to re-establish a dialogue.
Much less rare since man began producing perfect ones over the last 60 years...

I recall reading a decade ago the only flaw with the man-made gems was that they were, indeed, flawless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond
I concur, I feel like this or any other situation to bring out true emotion is what is needed.
@quesera I am glad you like it :) For encryption you mentioned, do you have any suggestions?
Emailed Google calendar invite is an even bigger bag of pain. They include two ".ics" attachments (one called "Mail Attachment.ics" and one called "invite.ics", leaving you wonder which one to use). If you try clicking the "Yes" in the email invite and you are not logged into the correct Google+ identity you get an HTML splash that says "Google Calendar invitations cannot be forwarded via email" (and no links to break out of that. If you load the ICS into iCal you can accept the meeting (and the sender seems to see that, so there must actually be no useful account based security in play). I thought about filming that one- but I don't want to go through those steps again.

I think it is fair to evaluate Google tools in a mixed environment. To assume a pure-Google environment is to assume away all other options and choices.
It all sounds very nice and grand, but the author had this epiphany during the presentation of a security vulnerability in Cisco's products. Cisco's superior software engineering practices may in fact make their products more secure than the majority of software, but it didn't keep them from being broken.

The fact of the matter is that security is hard. Balancing security with usability with speed of development with ROI is a tricky proposition. Cisco has a fundamental need to write high-security code because what they are selling is highly-secure infrastructure. That same need doesn't exist for other entities, and it shouldn't exist, because that security comes at financial and usability costs, at the least. That isn't to say that software developers shouldn't employ best practices and strive for secure code, but security is not a boolean, and it seems somewhat naive to equate "many people write imperfectly secure code" with "nobody cares about security".

There's a middle ground between security being a "debacle" and it always being a persistent threat. Bugs exist - and will always exist. You can spend lots and lots of money making sure that fewer bugs exist in your code, and you can spend lots and lots of money writing in-house code or auditing external code, but unless there is economic incentive to do so ("a security breach in our difficult-to-update firmware will leave our company devastated"), spending those resources makes very little sense. Additionally, all it takes is one bug to bring your massively expensive hyper-engineered software to its knees, as we saw in the Cisco case.

Security is always not about writing perfectly-engineered, hyper-secure code. It's about tradeoffs between financial resources and usability, and it's about mitigation of potential damage. If you write code predicated on "this is so well written that it can never be broken", you're in for a bad time.
I also want to mention our equity is split three ways evenly with no vesting.

Woah. Never ever do that again. You've given away the one tool that is used to deal with the issues you list.

Not to mention no VC will touch you until you include vesting. But may be you've no plans to raise funding.

Now on to your question, I would begin by making sure that they are assigned goals that are as challenging as yours. If you feel they can help with growth, make that an official part of their day to day job. They will either succeed or fa at it. They will either work hard to achieve it or not make an attempt. Either case, when you make it "official", its good for everyone and gives everyone clarity.
This is actually very old news...
I've not looked at any of this, and am therefore not implying Piketty might be a fraud like Michael Bellesiles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arming_America), but I'll note that many of the major scholars who took the latter down realized in seconds he was a fraud. Because they'd done relevant original source based research that his claimed research directly contradicted, especially non-RKBA related scholars who were simply intimately familiar with early American probate records. And then there was the smoking gun of records lost in the San Francisco earthquake and fire....

I've seen a lot of bogus stuff put out over the decades that's taken very little time to debunk. With the availability of info on the net, plus of course in this case the FT having significant internal resources, the timeline is hardly out of the question.

Note that nominally honest researchers are well known to make mistakes that follow their prejudices, I saw a lot of this in the '80s arguments against ballistic missile defense. They compute a result, but don't subject it to the critical analysis they would of something that goes against the grain, and don't give political opponents a chance to double check their work. And then e.g. end up publishing a series of articles in Scientific American that successively have fewer and fewer claims about how it's "impossible".
If you want kids to learn how to code make games with them. It's by far the most approachable subject and it doesn't take long until a game of any complexity allows you to slowly introduce more serious material. I'm pretty sure there were only two phases in my career when I jumped a level (or two) up in capabilities in a very short time, the first was when I was a professional games programmer, the second when I wrote an operating system.

I would strongly recommend against the second ;)
> Do you really think universities believe in the "rounded education" goal

This was the traditional role of Universities. It's only recently that they have become pressured to become trade schools and remove anything deemed 'unnecessary' or 'non-profitable.'

Of course when Universities filled that role, you didn't have choices as to what to use as, as you term it, irrelevant classes. Everyone had to have a broader education with classes drawn from many different disciplines.
The best place to find common ground for us on environmental issues is to look at the human. We are doing this to ourselves, our environment.

Two reasons for this view:

* Invoke a sense of urgency in the fact that it is our own situation that is at stake, not some abstract external good that only hippies ought to care for.

* Because the value of human life is a moral pillar we all share, while I can't find any reason to value existing species over new species, or newly emerging moss species over species that might go extinct.
The fucking up is still accelerating, with fracking and the rise of China with its effect on pollution and resource consumption just being two examples.
What's so striking is the fact that despite being a generation that is blessed with having access to all the world's information we are still not enlightened, meaning we are still not able to strive for global optima rather than our own short-term benefit. One would think that as a civilization we should have advanced more.
Is his name Dwight Schrute?
Both are nice proprietary formats.
We spend billions on supposedly averting a crisis predicted by lousy models but appear to ignore grotesque pollution of the oceans of which this is one example. Mercury and other nasties being another. But the list goes on and on.
I don't have any specific advice, but I would encourage you to read the book Non-violent communication (it's short). There are some "cheesy" aspects to the book (mainly the poetry that introduces some chapters), but a lot of really good / specific tactics for communicating without putting others or yourself on the defensive, which I think it one of the most important aspects of having a conversation like the one you will need to have.
Firefox has an even more powerful version of this.

If you start firefox with the "-P" flag you can choose to create a new profile. You can also pass it an argument (e.g. firefox -P default) to choose one.

In this case, the profiles are completely disparate; there is zero overlap. In this case, you simply have to login to one google account per window and paste into the correct window (still not ideal).

To run multiple profiles at once, launch all profiles after the first one with "firefox --no-remote -P <profile-name>". Clicking links will open them with the firefox that was launched without "--no-remote".
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