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I most definitely do not want to have nearly every decision in my life made by someone else, and find the anxiety/difficulty of the process to be absolutely normal.

Approximately every decision that's ever been made and affects you was made by someone else.

From toothpaste formulation to water cleanliness approval standards to mains electric plug standards to zoning regulations, pavement width, tram or train schedules, volumes of alcohol that can be sold, material books are printed on, blend of spices in KFC batter or how long a film is, what goes in an ethernet frame fields, how radio frequencies are licensed, where keyboard input goes through the Mac OS kernel, why your local shops stock X instead of Y...

You don't want the decisions you care about made by other people - who would?

But if you say you want to make nearly every decision that gets made in your life? I don't believe you could, or would want to, if faced with what that really meant.

I don't wan't to decide my own custom HN colour scheme and font size and font face and text colour contrast with background colour and font sub-pixel hinting style and text box resize behaviour interacting with a high-DPI rendered display, and whether the page POST has headers announcing this or that. The defaults chosen by Google Chrome team, Microsoft Windows team and HN designers are all fine.
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Hello, Kirill. :)

The expert is a journalist, from a newspaper «Тиждень». [1]

Here are the qoutes:

Донбасс – это не просто депрессивный регион. Там дикое количество ненужных людей. Я абсолютно осознанно об этом говорю. В Донецкой области примерно 4 миллиона жителей. И не менее 1,5 миллионов лишних. Нам не надо понимать Донбасс. Нам надо понимать украинский национальный интерес. А Донбасс нужно использовать как ресурс.
[...]
В отношении Донбасса: я не знаю рецепта, как это сделать быстро. Однако наиглавнейшее, что нужно сделать: есть люди, которых необходимо просто убить.

Which means that there is an "excess of 1.5 millions of people" in Donetsk Region, that "[people of] Donetsk Region mustn't be undestood [by the people from the rest of Ukraine], and Donetsk Region [and it's people] must be used as a resource instead" and "I don't know how to solve that problem [to remove excessive civilians], but the main thing is that some people must be physically eliminated".

So:

1. There are 1.5 millions of civilians of Donetsk region that are excessive.

2. People of Donetsk region mustn't be understood by the rest of Ukraine. Which literally means that they do not fit in Ukrainian Nation, they are not part of it.

3. He doesn't know the recipe how to remove the excessive civilians, but some people must be physically eliminated.

In the context of the whole TV show he is talking about elimination of excessive civilians. One could argue if he considers possible to physically eliminate 1.5 million of them, or only part of them and drive others by away by force or by economical means, etc.

> The "expert" (another journalist, in fact) never suggested to "physically eliminate about 1.5 million of civilians of Donetsk and Luhansk regions that are not able to fit in Ukrainian Nation" or anything close to it.

So, even though I have already claimed that it was too emotional for me to mention this TV show, I consider myself to have provided reasonable translation of his words.

P.S.

I've actually used pyyaml parser. :)

Edit: here is the relevant part of the show for you to check: [2]

[1] http://tyzhden.ua/Author/76/Publications/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhYyj5l9Lx0
I believe this is one of the big reasons I chose to go towards trading instead of working in SV. The prop trading companies (and even big finance firms like Goldman) have far more egalitarian profit-sharing structures than places like e.g. Google or Facebook, and you can really see that employees of those trading firms are a lot more motivated in their work than a programmer at a typical SV firm (even at startups that I've seen).
Sorry, it already took me too much time to watch UN press-conference in it's entirety to provide proper timed youtube links (which you've ignored) and pin-point other faults in your arguments that you also seem to ignore.
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> Windows

> nightmare

Not exactly sure what you were expecting. GCC on Windows is already wonky enough (MinGW? MinGW-w64?), I have no Idea how one can voluntarily try compiling GCC on Windows, let alone a cross compiler.
I played/sang in a garage band and smashed a lot of cheap guitars during sessions.

Nothing beats shouting your ass off for few hours then smashing the guitar on a peak of an adrenaline surge.

Genre matters.
Historically that's true. But, I suspect there will eventually be a great mathematician who has also suffers from something like severe dyslexia which makes accurate computation vary difficult yet still makes significant contributions.
link at the top...

"life the universe and technical interviews" http://diegobasch.com/life-the-universe-and-technical-interv....

Every solution has a loop 1 to 1000000 which is N but then they check every digit which is a log N making them N log N solutions. But there are Log N solutions that avoid checking every possibility.

Ex:

s dup if 10 /mod recurse + then ; : f 0 1000000 0 do i s 42 = if 1 + then loop ;
> I also fundamentally disagree that removing choices is a good thing - the research says it makes (most?) people feel better, which suggests that they don't want to think about making any choices because it is somehow difficult for them and causes anxiety. Logically, this means they would be most satisfied and happy if they didn't have to make any choices or do any thinking at all, and something/someone else made all the decisions for them - the equivalent of having no freedom or control over one's life.

You're equivocating removing choices that one ultimately wouldn't make any way (i.e. "false choices") with removing all choice.

> Is this really what we want society to become?

Also slippery-sloping.
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Yeah. It is understandable when you see where Photos is coming from.

Google+ has proven successful with photographs since it had (at least at the time) an very good picture experience and an interaction model that worked well for communities. So they doubled down on photo features (not to mention that according to rumors, Gundotra is supposedly prone to claim some projects for his division).

Now that we have a full fledged photo product, it may be time to :
-separate it from Google+, even though g+ should still be backed by photos.
-Merge as many google photo products as possible into this new experience.

Google has made some amazing work with auto awesome features (these automatic albums are slick) and the Photo editor, especially on mobile (where it is far from easy to build an editing pipeline, even if you use Renderscript).
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Could you be more specific about the problems you found? The first few chapters of the book have been edited by three professional editors at this point.
Our threat model is an attacker that wants to read and record the contents of conversations between everyone, they have the ability to modify/add/remove and log any packets. We assume they do not have any access to the actual machines Tox is running on.

The main goal of Tox is to make it hard for a global threat to conduct mass surveillance on everyone at the same time without sacrificing performance.

If the majority of the people using Tox have "nothing to hide" and use it because it works better than skype, the minority that does need the crypto will be able to use it without being discriminated against.
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Should we conclude that complaining about Google products is quite acceptable on HN, but liking them is not? The downvotes given to parent are hard to understand otherwise.
> 1. It's telling that the images on their own site don't look anything like the cruel tricks they actually spring on users: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

I'm pretty sure that right now they're just using it to index street addresses, and maybe test some kind of number-recognizing algorithm.
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>Riemann's notes ..., there's a computation of sqrt(2) to 38 decimal places for no discernible purpose.

A while back I read about a mathematician taking an informal survey of other mathematicians. One of the questions was if they knew how to manually calculate square roots. (Apparently, the mathematician was part of an older generation that was taught this procedure in class.) Most mathematicians did not know how and a few responded with commentary such as "I don't need to know it in my work and if I had to, it's a procedure I could look up."

Unfortunately, I don't remember if I read about that in a book or a webpage (and google search doesn't find any hits) so I can't give a cite.

The mathematician doing the survey was including it as part of a larger essay. He was explaining a similar theme to the article's author: tedious manual computation exercises are overemphasized in the typical math education.
What imperfections do you believe exist that prevent efficient coops from taking over? Please be specific.
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Or self-driving cara eventually.
I think Doodle handles this well; it provides a single clear path for its 90% use case, and hides extra options in dropdowns that clearly designate those options as "abnormal", but nonetheless acceptable.
> Not impressed - seems overly simplistic.

Agreed that it's not impressive, beings that the explanation is simply wrong. It's an edge case I'm definitely not handling properly. I've got [an open issue](https://github.com/pbyrne/cron-checker/issues/7) about combining ranges and modulo, but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Displaying an incorrect explanation is probably worse than no explanation, though, in retrospect.
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As far as I can tell, uTox is written in C and uses XLib (on GNU/Linux, at least).
It doesn't make sense to fire Brennan for starting the investigation that uncovered the misconduct.
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I bet they try to fit the new bit on at least twice before they get it to work properly.
Sorry about that. It's a [known issue](https://github.com/pbyrne/cron-checker/issues/7).
Depends. Just like SMTP, XMPP can be centralized (if everyone's on the same server, say gmail.com), as much as it can be distributed (if everyone's on his own server) and anywhere in between. Tox can only be distributed.
Consensus decision making is like QA: they can help make sure you're solving the right problem.

The upfront effort often feels inefficient -- especially if the team is lost in the weeds -- but can save a lot of heartache.

I've used various group decisions making processes to great effect. Joint application development (JAD) sessions for project kickoffs (scope setting). Approval voting for triage (issues with most votes get solved first). Roman evaluation (thumbs up/down) for acceptance testing. Story telling for post mortems. Etc, etc.

I've also seen much wasteful decision making. I'm not smart, or yet experienced, enough to identify the qwan that makes certain teams rock and others fail.
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Hi there. Popping in to clarify that the (excellent) folks behind Dead Man's Snitch are advertising on the site, but that otherwise I'm not affiliated with them and they haven't contributed to the project beyond the ad.

That said, it's a pretty great product and you should check them out!
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Are you gaming it or not?
I remember reading discussion how to address this problem. I can't for the life of me find it, though.
> the arcane syntax

Arcane, seriously? What kind of syntax would be modern and clear in your opinion? YAML? JSON? XML probably, with a nice 150-page XTBJSPCOSDF (Extensible Time-Based Job Scheduling for POSIX-Compatible Operating Systems Description Framework) spec? ;)

Personally, I think this is pretty straightforward:

#minute hour mday month wday command
30 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily
30 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly
30 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly
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I had a college professor like that. He was nearly unable to perform arithmetic, and would ask for the answer from the class. I wouldn't say he was dyslexic (I have no idea), but he certainly couldn't perform mental arithmetic. But he was fabulous at math. We'd often ask him questions far outside the realm of the textbook and class just for the privilege of seeing an extremely good mind tackle a problem.

So I disagree with the OP. The fact that some mathematicians brains work that way is not evidence that they all do, nor is it evidence that it is helpful or preferable.
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When one's strong preference is chaos, even a trivial layer of management will seem like "bureaucracy".

Hijacking the thread isn't cool, Ted.
Hi All

Thanks for the support. Some feedback would be great.

Thanks
20 years ago:

I love Linux but only really get chance to run it at home as work is very Windows+Office orientated these days. So I don't get chance to stay as up to date with changes as I used to.
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> a security hole in that software or OS can easily give an ability to execute arbitrary code

> if the underlying math ensures that reading or altering X isn't possible, then it's okay

If an attacker has access to a zero-day exploit that can compromise the OS, could they compromise random generation of numbers and weaken the zero-knowledge system?
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Mathematicians I knew tended to make minor arithmetical errors as much as anyone else, some of them a lot. Ability to do accurate computation is not much relevant in theoretical math. What is relevant is your ability to reason and abstract thinking.

Of course, that does not mean kids should not be taught arithmetic. It just mean that we should distinguish between mistakes caused by not understanding the topic and those that are just result of doing a lot of operations with similar numbers. the former should be dealt with as bigger deal then latter.
It's also surprising that just because I have just a handful of friends on facebook, no profile picture and don't post anything on facebook, I'm marked as a spam account. Are you just interested in big social graphs?
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Apparently: https://tox.im
Find some other systems that behaves similarly to the one you want to build and copy their design.
Thanks! I think the answer is that it would fall down pretty hard if the tempo started varying, the reason being that the algorithm seeks out interval modes instead of averages, with only a little wiggle room.

In the testing section, the songs that we fail to identify correctly are usually those we couldn't get a "handle" on in the form of identifying common intervals. A varying tempo would exacerbate that problem.

Additionally, the question becomes: what is the tempo of a song that has an inconsistent tempo?
Does anyone want to fire Brennan for starting an investigation?

I thought they wanted Brennan fired for spying on congress and then lying to congress about spying on them.
And yet the way math is traditionally taught in schools and colleges, there is almost always is a unique right answer.

There are alternative approaches to teaching math such as problem-based learning, active learning, and inquiry-based learning, that help students not only understand the math better, but learn why the math is useful and how to apply it in the real-world (transfer of learning). Students also are much more likely to continue on and succeed in future courses and graduate.

Here are best practices for teaching calculus, for example:
http://launchings.blogspot.com/2014/01/maa-calculus-study-se...

And research showing that in traditional lecture courses (vs. active learning courses), students are 1.5 times more likely to fail:
http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2014/05/lectures-arent-...

Underrepresented populations (minorities) and females are much more likely to succeed in active and inquiry learning math courses, too: http://theconversation.com/who-learns-in-maths-classes-depen...
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I don't understand why they had to do this, couldn't they just use a schema dump with random data? They are already setting the passwords to null and names to a random number in their sanitization script...
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Incoherent nonsense. Not even wrong. I feel sorry for you. You're victimized by the delusion that anyone who disagrees with you about anything (a) disagrees with you about everything and (b) must be bought and paid for by shadowy adversaries. That's no way to live.
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Not just the board -- mic cables running under chairs pick it up too, as do the tie lines under the floor if they're not properly shielded, which they're usually not in older studios.

The great thing about mic cables picking it up is that it's usually easy to narrow down who the offender was. :-)
Thanks! re: corner frequency, ha, yeah I maybe oversimplified the example code a bit. That code will, however, work, because the Web Audio API specifies a default frequency of 350Hz ( http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#attributes-17 ). You can also dig into the source code of the page for the code that makes the audio examples happen (search for "click", which will give you the click handlers).

I think we'll circle around and try again in a less naive way :)
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Thanks for this write up, I really enjoyed it.
+1 to the suggestion to adjust the threshold based on the average volume in a section, maybe using a sliding window.
In fact, banks here in Portugal already show you two balances, an "accounting" balance which shows you the sum of all transactions, including ones that haven gone through yet (e.g. deposited checks) and an "available" balance which is what you can actually use right now.

It's really not that difficult.
If anyone using a Mac wants to experience this, there exists the retro terminal emulator "Cathode" which can emulate various modem speeds (along with curved glass, CRT phosphor persistence, etc) http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/
Why would it? The vast majority of people with whom I interact in OS projects have no clue what my gender (or ethnicity for that matter) is.
Play or learn something new on my acoustic guitar. Or a long walk.
You mean an oracle?
As for the armor plating question, did the plate the engine because of its size? The engines combined make up a smaller surface area than the other places but it was still shot up quite a bit. It would be less weight and not to mention it would be more 'mission critical'.
I remember seeing a google talk on data center innovations; efficiency and environmental impact. Specifically mentioned was the purchase of barges for a prototype datacenter. The advantages were free cooling from the ocean which would be maximized by submerging all the servers in oil to conduct heat. Sorry to lazy to pull up the source, but I thought that was what all these barges were for.
My undergraduate mentor was this way. World-class mathematician with dyslexia.
I love the Surface Pro because it comes with a "full" (not locked-down) OS running on very capable 64-bit hardware in a 10" tablet and all of the desktop apps that I use work great with touch input. (The hardware is i5/4GB RAM/128 GB SSD.)

In addition to all the Windows software that I run on it, I also have a small Ubuntu Server VM within the included hypervisor. Can't wait until the Surface Pro 4 comes out, that's when I'll probably jump to the Surface Pro 3 to get the larger screen and SSD size.
Better job? Eich had a pretty good job methinks.
Seattle Transit Blog had a post that touched on that topic. (which I can't find) I think the reason to not do that is that the tunnel is too deep so you would not have stations downtown since the cost of each station is more then a transit only tunnel.
Definitely, the fact that our love for our child is put to test does not in any way mean that it is greater than the love a parent of a neurotypical child has. But there are differences, like many more sleepless nights, a sweeping change in social life, an increased anxiety for the future of the child when we will not be around and of course the discrimination part I mentioned in the end. As an example, families with a child on the spectrum have limited mobility, not just because of the associated difficulties, but also because a range of countries will just not accept them (e.g. Australia and Canada), or will do so with much more difficulty. Therefore, while I understand where you are coming from, there are practical, even ratified differences which make some potential life paths even harder or impossible. Furthermore, these difficulties are often supported by the same politics/politicians that claim to care about all lives. On my part, I share with you the all encompassing respect and appreciation of life, as I live a happy life next to a different child that constantly amazes me. I would be reluctant to attribute someone else's choice to their personal disrespect for life, as long as there is a societal discrimination that might affect such decisions.

Edit: I wish to be a little more explicit. The choice discussion is void in my eyes, since society has already made implicit choices around this subject which form significant input to the individual decision processes. By sending conflicting signals and putting forward choice on the one hand and respect for life on the other, we are just shaking off a collective responsibility and handing it over to an atomic existence that we already alienate in this manner. Let's fix the social norms and then we can discuss more meaningfully. If in the middle ages people with Down syndrome were properly integrated in the society, the current state of affairs is telling of the brutality and barbarism of our modern societies.
I guess one man's dystopia is another's utopia? Because I'm in the latter ;)

I think Apple has brought us closer to dystopia than anyone with their hardware + software lockin monoculture. At least I can move to other hardware vendors if I don't like Microsoft's hardware. If I want to run OSX I have to buy Apple's hardware (and I do when I have to, but I certainly don't enjoy it).
Bro, just use a text editor like Sublime Text, etc.
For the lending, there will often be a collateral, for a company it will often be shares. That limits the leverage to 50% since a default will make the bank an investor and external investors can't have control.

The collateral will not always be shares, sometimes it could be the acquired physical good, then it's accessible to coops (too bad if you want to borrow for service or immaterial goods). Using real estate or company planes as a collateral suggests that you already got a credit to acquire them in the first place.
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