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Okay, I read the OP and decided to give 'The Washington Post' another chance.

So, I started reading an article there. It made a claim but gave no data or references. So, the article failed standard high school term paper writing standards. So the 'content' was not solid information but something else. Tilt.

So, apparently The Washington Post is still the
same old 'journalism' I've screamed about for years. So, for me, done.

If the 'new' Washington Post is just more of the same of old 'journalism', then I see no great reason Bezos should work to spread it around the US or the world instead of just inside the DC beltway.

So, for me, Bezos wasted his money. Sorry, Jeff.
> it can roughly measure how attractive you are to the population

You could even push that concept further, and test a picture in different cities/countries. That way you can find where in the world people find you most attractive :D
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For those in the US that aren't aware: Swedish workers already get a lot more time off, and seem to value it as part of the culture. I am collaborating with a tech worker in Sweden and last week I got an email that ended with

"I will be going for vacation starting from today and I will be back on August 11. Hopefully you will be busy enough with the material I send you until I’m back."

I am jealous because in the US, a decent summer vacation seems reserved for students and teachers. I would much rather work somewhere that values free time instead of the current american culture which often honors the person who spends the most time in the office regardless of output.
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He doesn't seem to understand the notion of opportunity cost.

That it's sometimes wise to leave money of the table, if you have to spread yourself think and work twice as hard for diminishing returns.

iOS first is perfectly fine for launch. Tons of highly succesful apps did just that.

You don't have to mess with the fragmentation (even though the latest party line is that "it's not that big a deal"), and you get access to the more lucrative demographic in general (sure, there are billionaires using Android too -- but in average, iOS users pay more for their phones, and get higher wages).
But the alternative to "Scribd having the paper" is not necessarily "no other site having it". If someone uploaded it to Scribd, why wouldn't they upload it to some other site instead?

Your argument is equivalent to saying: the registrar of google.com is MarkMonitor, therefore if MarkMonitor didn't exist, we wouldn't have Google.
You're conflating the append operation with (in their example) addition, which is completely different.
Append makes a list longer. Addition combines two elements in a reduction. Addition is commutative. And the other issue here is that learning is tolerant of a small amount of noise. You don't want your filesystem of record to be.
OMG is Comcast brainwashing their staff? This guy sounds like some Scientology nut.
Without a way to getentropy(2) [hint] that doesn't use file descriptors, it has no other secure choice but to raise(SIGKILL) in my opinion; a mere error might be overlooked, but continuing to run could expose secrets and keys, which is much worse than a DoS condition (anything in file-descriptor exhaustion when under attack is already being DoSsed). (It's turned off because coredumps could also do that locally.)
Using these types of multiplication algorithms can actually compute the result in fewer steps versus a naive algorithm when dealing with very large integers, such as integers used in cryptography.
If everyone in the world had enough energy to live a developed-world middle-class lifestyle -- and with thorium reactors this might be feasible -- might that not eliminate one of the driving forces behind global conflict?

I'm not saying it's a slam-dunk win for sure.

But I have noticed a lot of general apathy and aversion to violence in the developed world largely because people are just too busy living their lives; they have a lot to lose.

> the real question is how they plan to reduce the U-232 contamination level enough to make weapons-safe U-233

I'm not convinced that anyone has this goal in mind. Maybe they just want to provide power to their countrymen and continue to lift India out of poverty. There might be nothing nefarious about this, unless you consider poor people getting less poor to be a problem.
>This is exactly my point when i talk about the "tech bubble". iOS users keep telling themselves the numbers are somehow lying, and that their market is the early adopters, and that that market is decent sized. I don't think we appreciate how small that world is.

Well, the fact that Android has a larger market share but is still playing catchup to money paid to developers, speaks volumes.
I wish I had dug in further. I am substantially less excited now.
The English wikipedia is less desperate for article counts because it's already got a huge number. Wherease the other language wikipedias are always looking for more content in their specific language. So, in essence, you could say that he'll get more issues by doing this on the English wikipedia.
check the link below please.
The disagreement is therefore subjective.

No, your reasoning is specious, you're assuming "Scribd has content nobody else has, therefore if there was no Scribd, there would be no content". This is simply broken logic.

Scribd is like the cup I used to drink water from this morning; if that particular cup hadn't been made, would I die of thirst?
please check the link below.
"And what does Google get out of paying top-notch salaries to fix flaws in other companies’ code? Evans insists Project Zero is “primarily altruistic.”"

I think it's great that Google is trying to make software more secure, but I don't believe there's an altruistic spirit behind it. I think these researchers do search for bugs in software other than Google's, sure, but it's software that Google uses to run its services, so in the end the aim is still to make their products secure.
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I live in Canada and literally everybody in my life, except for one friend who is a huge Android fanboy, uses iOS. I don't have a phone, but I can still iMessage everybody else I know from my tablet except for one person.

Now I love the idea of android, I love the technology and I use Linux daily on web servers so I get the customizeability and the appeal, but let's face it - if I write an iOS app I can send that to nearly everybody I know. If I write an android app only one person I know could install it.
Perhaps you should read the title of the article, and reconsider your comment in that light.
There's an associated blog post too: https://vimeo.com/blog/post:640
That was not his point. /dev/urandom on Linux does return low entropy strings when it simply doesn't have any at boot time. /dev/(u)random on BSD actually blocks until it has collected enough entropy to get going, and doesn't block thereafter.

So BSD /dev/urandom is more secure in that it never gives bad random numbers for some baseline badness. He was not factually wrong about that, although he is wrong in stating that that was the reason the OpenBSD developers are dismissing it.
AFAIK, every bank (including for instance Paypal) charges a fee for conversion.

At least, it's the case with my French and my Dutch bank.

That's one of the great benefit of the Euro when shopping in the EU (well, except for our British friends :) )

Edit: corrected a typo
There are several third-party apps that have a "shake to snooze" feature. I find that gives me enough time to wake up properly and turn the alarm off (or if I go back to sleep, the fact that it's only snoozed means I get woken right back up again).
Exactly, I can't believe they pay to be like that. They surely might train you to try and retain unsatisfied customers, but that employee looks like a bit too dedicated to the mission.
The only thing you say at this point is "I request you to close my account effective immediately. Is my account closed yet?". Anything else you say (e.g. "You're the reason I'm leaving" or even "I'm moving to Mars") will be used as conversational leverage against you.

Other than that, have fun with it. I got a manipulative rep when I canceled Sirius and told her I already threw away the radio when she tried to extend the contract. She was not prepared for that. :)
Regardless of the company, there is always a conversion charge around 2% and the rate applied is never the actual rate, banks usually calculate a rate using some kind of moving average.
>"I'm moving to (insert name of city owned by competitor)"

Unfortunately, that's becoming harder and harder to do...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast-Time_Warner_Cable_mer...
My bank will charge £1.50 plus a variable commission for paying in anything but GBP.
Yeah, of course this guy didn't have to put up with a phone call like this. Comcast has bad service, but I highly doubt this is the norm. He could have hung up and called again, no problem. But he stayed on the phone because after ten minutes, he was already drooling thinking about sending this recording to his buddies at Techcrunch.

So yeah, maybe he's a bit needlessly overdramatic about this, but personally I'm thankful for the entertainment.
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I did a stop payment on a gym years ago and they never contacted me, so that seemed to take care of it. They had refused to cancel me just through talking to them so I felt vindicated.

My wife just recently canceled a gym membership, and actually got no hassle. No written letter needed, nothing. Just a comment about how they were sorry she was leaving and hope to see you again one day. It was perfect customer service.
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I went through a situation similar to this with Dell about 8 years ago. The guy told me he had no supervisor and that I had to deal with him. I promptly recorded the call, called back and left a message of the call. The same fellow then called me back and said I was rude and let me speak to his supervisor. There is no way I would have spent this amount of time with this person. I would have gotten his name or recorded him refusing to give it to me and called back and promptly went straight to a supervisor and got this issue solved. Companies that have this kind of policy and are ok with these types of employees talking to customers like this quickly loose all their customers to competition as soon as their competition catches up in technology.
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There are many ways to multiply. Some are faster than others. The typical grade school multiplication takes O(n * n) time. Other algorithms are asymptotically better than quadratic, and become more efficient when one has 1,000s of digits. Large numbers like these can occur in computer algebra problems, of which cryptography is a member.

For more details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm#Fast_m...
Not at all different, if you look at the results. Both in Russia and in the US, if you don't have money, people can threaten and bully you with court, because they know for sure you cannot win.

Your claim is that the process somehow makes a difference. But if the results are the same, then it doesn't. It's like saying that war is NOT murder, because it's being declared by people in Washington wearing suits. Or that taxation is not theft because it's being done by a "legit" three letter agency.
Can you explain what makes your news aggregator better/different than all the other options out there?
It's mostly a theoretical result. The previous FFT-based multiplication algorithms (including the one in GMP) all have almost linear complexity. For integers that can be stored within the observable universe, overhead and memory locality matter much more than nested logarithmic factors in the asymptotic complexity bound. It's conceivable that the new algorithm is superior in the real world, but nothing really suggests that it should be.
And then they'll eventually send your account to collections, where it will be an even bigger pain to straighten out.

Something similar happened to me with AT&T (now Comcast, I believe) in Chicago. I was moving away so I canceled service, returned my equipment in person and even got a receipt! But someone forgot to log something somewhere, so they kept sending me bills. For months, I kept calling and (foolishly) believed them when they said it would be straightened out soon... until they threatened to send my account to collections.

In the end, it took a letter to the office of the CEO with the whole story and a copy of my receipt to fix things (and if it hadn't I'd already started researching my legal options).
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No, this guy works in the cancellations department, to which you are connected when you indicate that you want to cancel your service. That means it is his sole job to convince persons to not cancel the service. He also receives a bonus for every phone call he makes that does not result in a cancellation. For you it's 15 minutes of time wasted, for him it means 15 minutes of hard work that came very close to paying off.
"I'm moving to Berlin"
I couldn't cancel my Comcast service via phone because the automatic system hung up on me (I tried again the next day).

I just stopped paying (removed my credit card from the system), and after calling me multiple times about the outstanding charges, they eventually figured out that I wanted to cancel.

They still tried to bill me for the time between when I attempted to cancel and when the service was actually disconnected, even though I explained I was unwilling to pay this amount. Ultimately, they transferred the bill to a debt collection agency, and unfortunately I failed to dispute within 30 days (was traveling), so I ended up having to pay it.
> This is perfectly summed up by the first comment on the page:

That comment, without looking the app, don't say anything
It is very easy to perform "123 * 456" but when each numbers have millions of digits it is a lot more complex.
The naive algorithm require N^2 operation to multiply two numbers with N digits. This algorithm reduce this complexity.

The most simple "fast" algorithm is the karatsuba multiplication. If you want to do "12 * 34" using the classical algorithm you will compute "12 * 3" and add "12 * 4 * 10". This need 4 single digit multiplications. (the * 10 is a simple shift)
Karatsuba algorithm say that you can do "13100 + (1-2)(3-4)10 + 2*4" and get the same result. This imply only 3 single digit multiplications. (again the multiplications by power of 10 are simple shifts)

Here the saving is small but if both of your numbers are N digits, you need 3 multiplication of N/2 digits that can be done recursively with the same algorithm for a final complexity around N^1.585 instead of N^2.

Instead of splitting each number in two, you can split them in more pieces and reduce further the complexity. For big but not so big numbers you use the Karatsuba algorithm or the various Toom-Cook splitting, but with very big number you switch to the Schönhage-Strassen algorithm who use the FFT.
All these algorithms works by transforming the numbers in polynoms, compute their convolution and convert back to integer.

The Fürer algorithm is most efficient algorithm known for now but only theoretically, for pratical numbers we stick with Schönhage-Strassen. This paper introduce a new proof of the complexity of the Fürer algorithm as well as a few tricks to slightly improve it.
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In addition to the pay issue addressed in all of the other answers so far, the top tier programmers are also likely to be looking for more stable employment. A single college grad with no experience can take a gamble on a startup, but someone with a few years of experience and a family is more likely to want a job that they know will be around for a few years.
> Airplane tickets are much more expensive than a car trip

In Europe it is opposite, thanks to petrol taxes and road tools, flight is often cheaper than car, and always cheaper than train.
In other sciences, you'd follow some leading journals. In computer science, you follow some of the leading conferences (and hope that the conference publishes the proceedings in some place that your university has access).
But women do write messages (in my experience), just not to bad/bland/standard profiles.
Can you please try again now?
I guess the root of the problem is a mismatch in expectations. The PhD thinks his PhD puts him a notch above people with merely a Master's, therefore he must be ready for management. The industry sees him as someone with talent, but fresh out of university, with no industry experience. First get some experience on how projects are run before you expect to manage them.
Comcast is a monopoly in many markets so you are limited in how you might give your business to other providers.
The guy who he was talking to works for Comcast, is pursuing Comcast goals (which aggressively punishes agents who don't have high enough retention rates), and is recorded and often monitored by Comcast. The Comcast agent clearly has a list of complaints/responses that they use to try to defuse all complaints -- not that they've actually solved your problem, but rather that they made you think the call was no longer worth it and just give up trying to cancel.

Their entire job as retention agents is to waste enough of your time, and try to press enough buttons, that you give up.

The whole "I am waiting for the system to complete the process, so listen to my arguments while we wait" nonsense, for instance. Credit card companies do the same thing for activations, using the "waiting for the system to finish" to pitch insurance and other unwanted products.

This is a problem. This is a major problem. This is why so many services allow you to sign up in seconds online, but require long, drawn out waste-of-time phone calls to cancel. To force you through this gauntlet, making most just forget about it.

Cynically claiming that this guy manufactured this situation betrays logic of this situation. He dealt with what is a profound problem that most customers deal with.
Or losing his job if he hasn't rescued enough accounts. Call centres are soul destroying places to work.
I'm not sure how the dollar price would be in my favour, if you've not specified what the GBP price would be? Sure, once you've set the price it could go either way.

Anyway, as others have said, there are charges and spreads on foreign currency banking. It also adds complications to my otherwise very simple accounting needs.
Firstly, just because you can find brief entries in other encyclopaedias doesn't mean that it's good form.

Secondly, I didn't demand complete excision with the kind of frothy fervor you're implying. I said a better format for these "X is type Y, discovered by Z, listed in Q" is collating them all in a list format. WP has list article like this aplenty - dense, easily digestible information on similar topics, allowing quick and easy comparison and scanning.

As for your link, one of the bold highlights is "explains subjects in greater detail than a dictionary". Another of the three definitions of 'encyclopaedia' your link provides says "with data on and discussion of each subject identified" (my emphasis). So that's two out of three definitions that quite strongly indicate non-brief articles - your linked article is wrong from it's own source material, and hasn't made the case that dictionary-like brevity is suitable for an encyclopaedia.

By your definition, this "(almost) one-sentence" article should be removed from WP, no?

What, are you trying to 'catch me out' here? Do you think that's a good quality article? It's a stub, it's not what WP wants to encourage, and it's more like a dictionary definition than either "explaining a subject in greater detail" or "discussion of the subject". Yes, I think it's a bad article for any encyclopaedia - it's quite brief, and full of technical jargon. If you didn't already know the specific jargon, it's completely useless as a "general course of instruction" (the etymology argument from your link). And if you do know the jargon, you have a pretty good chance of working it out from the name alone; the article merely confirms the topic if you're unsure, but you don't get any more insight into it.

As 'trick questions' go, this one sucked.
Its not in our favour unless our exchange rate appreciates every month more than our fees. And yes we get charged just like you would if I charged euros to your card.
Not buddies, his employees.
Here in the Netherlands the situation got significantly better after a famous comedian (Youp van 't Hek) went completely public with the misery that ensued after calling t-mobile to get a problem fixed with his sons iPhone.
(http://www.nrcnext.nl/blog/2010/10/25/youp-vant-hek-brengt-t...)

T-mobile found themselves suddenly completely on the defensive in various TV-shows. They apologized profusely. It was very funny, things really got better.
I didn't have to resize anything for it to show up, for whatever reason.
"We named our map themes after the tribes found during their journey, in homage to the shared identity of the land."

- I don't understand what you mean here. For the NYC "Sioux" map you mean that there were Sioux tribes in the NYC area? I am sure that is not true. It doesn't feel like "homage to the shared identity". For me it really strikes falsely
There is interesting picture of hyperloop in article:
http://breakthrough.turing.com/images/elements/A26.jpg

I wonder, why not just build regular bullet train? 380 miles seems like ideal distance. 1:30 minutes (center to center) would be great improvement. And it could be done in a few months.
>Where do I buy the photoetch machine and is there an easy way to use it?

There's no special machinery necessary, and it's so easy that a child can do it. The technique involves applying a resist material to the copper-clad board where traces are needed, then using a corrosive liquid to etch away the unwanted copper. Simple PCB etching requires only a plastic tray, a couple of bottles of chemicals, an ordinary clothes iron, a blank copper-clad board and access to a laser printer or photocopier. A slightly more advanced method requires a UV exposure box, which can be bought for as little as $100. There are dozens of excellent tutorials available, just search online for "PCB etching".

Pick-and-place machines work fantastically well in production quantities, where components are supplied on tape reels that can be automatically fed into the machine. In small quantities, correctly aligning the components is a major problem, requiring either a great deal of human labour or a very sophisticated machine vision system and a complex multi-axis CNC machine.

Placing SMD components by hand is a fiddly but simple job, especially with the aid of a magnifying lens. For experimental and prototyping purposes it often makes more sense to use through-hole components, which are somewhat bulkier but much easier to handle. Through-hole components can be used with solderless breadboard or veroboard, which allow you to build and test circuits without producing a PCB.
Nice specs!

Where does the Thorium come from and how abundant is it?
I think it's slightly wider than that, a web with a reputation for being insecure drives people away from the web, and therefore away from Google services.

There's a few Google projects where the basic aim seems to be "improve the internet/web".

Still selfish from Google's perspective, but it's still something I can get behind.
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