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What do you mean by "bad"; what calculation do you intend to label that way?

In the sequence 0, 4, 8, 12, 16 the deltas are equal, and consistent with the size of an int in bytes.

It looks bad when we don't know it's pointer math, and/or are not aware that the syntax we used doesn't index into the array; if we know these things, it is unsurprising.

Now if you got the Fibonacci sequence, that would be astonishing! :)
You are right it's not a guarantee, but unemployment is low among degree holders.

http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_chart_001.htm
Nicely done!
How hard would be to add a GPS based beacon?
I implemented Asteroids on Arduino. It was very challenging to work within 2K of SRAM, especially when 1.5K was used by the video buffer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w03dO0Hd660
Agreed. If the tag functioned also as a GPS beacon of some kind, and the app mapped for the owner, this would be a no-brainer - for me at least.
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(From the Netflix PDF)

Each appliance stores a portion of the catalog, which in general is less than the complete content library for a given region. Popularity changes, new titles being added to the service, and re-encoded movies are all part of the up to 7.5TB of nightly updates each cache must download to
remain current. We recommend setting up a download window during off-peak hours when there is sufficient free capacity.
That is simply not true.

A consumer broadband network often distributes out over a very large area and condenses into micro POPs. In the Bay Area think Pleasanton, Concord, Marin, etc. The ISP must then backhaul traffic from these micro POPs to a major POP where the whole internet interconnects (Santa Clara/San Jose).

If Netflix were to install a million terabits a second of peering and a hundred thousand caching appliances in San Jose, it wouldn't alleviate the ISPs pain point at all, which is the backhaul to the micro POPs.

Putting OpenConnect appliances into micro depolyments "out in the field" solves the problem, because it moves the content and caching out to the last mile. However the ISPs are reluctant to do this because then what used to be a half rack of telcom gear in a small shed somewhere has now become a defacto colocation facility. You have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Vudu, YouTube, Microsoft, eBay, and two dozen others each with 4u of gear in hundreds of locations that you are paying for power and rolling out to service when they fail (because you can't let competitors have physical access to each others gear, and a node failure can saturate the uplinks from the micro POP).
It's meant to be a phrase that will draw more information about the job; it's not a compliment.

Instead you could say something like "I don't know much about that line of work, what sort of challenges do you face?", and I think you'd get the same results. His phrase gets the same response while using less words.

This and other statements only work when he is actually listening and genuinely interested.
Facebook failing or never existing? How could this be a bad thing? Google not being as dominant or Yahoo getting their technology and yet also not being dominant? I fail to see how these are bad. I use technology from neither company myself.

I think the majority of these companies suck at so much because they try and be all things to all people. In unity there is strength, but when you try to do it all, you fail.

I don't trust Google because they have their fingers in every pie on the Internet. They want to make money, money, money with little thought of anything else or what it takes to get there or how much privacy is looted. Yahoo is an also ran with little hope of being anything more than what it was and is.
Most (all) major ISP's do have DC"s that you can colo in (including comast). Just call up their business services line and ask.

So, yes, you can colo in one of your ISP's DC's. Netflix is doing just that (which is why it's not a peering agreement, it's a colo agreement). They just don't get charged because they are saving the ISP the money they would normally charge for the colo service (sometimes more).
My bet is either:

(1) They have a solid lead we don't know about; or

(2) Saying you are 3 years away generates hype and interest that keeps netting you the funding to work on something as long term as decades away.

Even if they secretly think it is exactly one decade away, it is in their interest and the interest of the current investors to say it's only a few years away since they will depend on other investors to get piling in on this investment in 1-2 years time.

My advice to anyone working on inventing something truly new instead of putting a startup together from off the shelf parts: Never under-estimate the value of optimism in your time frames and communicating that optimism and timeframe often. Every truly big idea I can think of has depended on a similar optimism since it's the only way to actually net you the amount of money needed to accomplish something truly novel.

Even Kennedy did this when he talked about putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It took 8 years, one month and 26 days from the date of his speech to accomplish something that was pretty far fetched in 1961. Only those willing to make bold claims are capable of taking such bold claims to fruition. That's how you raise the money you need and recruit the people you need to make that a reality. Moonshot startups require a moonshot attitude.
The US has been bought and manipulated by the automobile and oil industries. From early on when GM and others bought the street car networks and shut them down, to lobbying the Eisenhower interstate network in place, this country has been and continues to be built around the idea that everyone should be required to use a car to participate in all aspects of their lives.

In order for an intercity rail network to work, it needs to link dense urban cores that also have useful transit systems. A train between Omaha and Kansas City does no good if you get off the train then face a 14 mile journey through the suburbs to your destination.

2 things need to happen before a rail network makes sense:

1. Urban infill. I know Denver has a policy for this in place, I'm sure others do too. But sooo many city cores have huge tracts of land that are derelict, or unused. New development should be incentivized to make use of this land.

2. Growth boundary regulation. Portland is the best example of this. With out this you get the exurbs and sprawl (sorry to point out Kansas City again, but it is one of the worst offenders here) which demand a car to traverse.
"Considerably less" still means the smallest F1 team has more resources than the entire NASCAR and Indycar grid combined.
Wikipedia Zero: Wikipedia turns its back on net neutrality
That's a pretty archaic point. Blink and WebKit remain extremely similar, Blink is almost "WebKit-lite." Google remains one of WebKit's major contributors even after Blink since they share the majority of the same codebase.

The person above is correct, most open-source browsers use some WebKit based engine OR Gecko. The differences between WebKit, Blink, and to a less extent KHTML don't change that fact. They're still the same core-codebase.
I agree strongly on his thesis, that being polite is a good thing to be and that too many folks are oblivious to its usefulness. I'm not so keen on his writing style, but he makes a number of good points.

"Useless in high school but extremely useful later on": yes, school is when you'd expect to learn such skills, but high-school is such a toxic environment that too many folks learn the opposite of politeness (like how to dominate in an interaction, or flee it).

"it provides insulation against bad situations" (the gloves/dirty laundry paragraph): very much so. Politeness and etiquette provides guidelines to interact in situations that would instinctively lead to aggression.

"it lets you gather information about people": I don't like the manipulation undertones of this part, but it's true that with a little skill you can turn many a conversation into a mine of information and bonding.

"touching and personal space": as others have mentioned, this is very flexible across cultures, but I believe that everyone has some level of personal space boundaries. Break these and the other person becomes defensive, uncomfortable.
Cough ...

"She sells shelters to tax shills by the Seychelles sea shore."

:)
It seems to me that this software would be infinitely more useful if there was some kind of always-on base station which reports over wifi. That would enable pet owners to keep an eye on their pets even when they're not at home.

Ultimately, if your pet does manage to escape the range of your phone (or base station), there's nothing that this app can do to help you locate them. Do you have any plans to expand the app to support crowd sourced recovery like Tile (http://www.thetileapp.com/)?
These high speed rails wouldn't really be for commuters because they aren't going to make frequent stops.
Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada were the most interesting to me. They all had considerable migration from every region of the US, plus international.
What's disingenuous about it? To them, it probably is hard, and you're just reaffirming that fact. If they said "my job is easy", you would go "off script" and hit them with "oh, do you ever wish things were harder at work?", or an equivalent.

The mechanisms and communication patterns are repeated, but every interaction and person is unique, and there's nothing cheap in that.
I worked at MSN in WAN-OPS in the 90s. We did exactly that: find out what ma-and-pa ISPs we were paying transit for, offer to run a T1 directly to them for all MSCOM/MSN traffic. Easiest sales call ever.
Very cool. Not sure this was meant to happen, but at one point I did a double jump over a wall and then just started to continuously fall and it never stopped.
"The reason most people will never become rich is simply because they increase their expenses the more they make."

Words of wisdom right there.

I think there is an underlying difficulty there. There's usually at least a few of your friends who also are financially well off and growing. Or perhaps your circle starts to include more well off people as you become wealthier. There is an endless social competitive pressure to be at or near the top of your peers, and the metric for measuring that is how much you own and spend. Leaving society to go on a farm, however awesome and healthy that may be, is breaking the vicious cycle that you may have been in for much of your life. And that is incredibly difficult.
John Oliver gets into how bad the practice has become lately in a recent Last Week Tonight episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc
Nathan Barry http://nathanbarry.com/ writes on his websites about writing and self publishing.
I think the author is treading a fine line between "nice person" and "confidence man", maybe without realizing it. He's describing social engineering, and I have no doubt that it's a very effective strategy.

> “I thought you were a terrible ass-kisser when we started working together.”

> She paused and frowned. “But it actually helped get things done. It was a strategy.” (That is how an impolite person gives a compliment. Which I gladly accepted.)

There is something disappointing about realizing that someone's confidence tricks do work. It sounds like this coworker was grappling whether this is a strategy that they should adopt, because they can see the efficacy, but it feels morally painful.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt when using tricks like these for work, especially if you're a politician or marketing person, or something else where appearance and illusion dominates the field...

> One of those people is my wife

But this makes me cringe. I know that if I was this person's partner and I read this article, I would start to feel very uneasy.
> You need to realize that, if high-speed rail and the other discussed modes of transport compared poorly to highway travel in economic terms, governments would stop supporting them.

I am sorry but this argument is not gonna fly. Saying that governments are infallible and make perfect decisions or trend toward perfect decisions is simply not correct.

And assuming you mean democratic governments this makes even less sense.
Agreed on never. I recommend house debt, where there isn't enough cash and there's no obvious bubble, only because houses are almost sure to appreciate given inevitable population growth.
> A train is 10% better than a jet from SF to LA. A train is much worse than a jet for SF to NY. All other pairings -- or so one might argue -- are so much lesser in density that the elasticity of roads is vastly preferable.

I think there are many other possibilities, and also many people live in cities of hundreds of thousands, all over America, and they'd like to travel too.

* The NE corridor, from DC to Boston, of course. Maybe south to NC

* Chicago - Indianapolis - Cincinnati - Columbus - Pittsburgh - Cleveland - Detroit (- Toronto) (That would include a spur or two, of course.) And what about people in Green Bay and Grand Rapids?

* The Florida cities, maybe up to Atlanta or West to New Orleans

* Texas cities
No, "vote for all acceptable candidates" is approval voting, a method that uses binary markings (like vote-for-one FPTP voting), but allows multiple marked candidates on each ballot, with (like FPTP) the candidate getting the highest number of marks elected.

Its very different from IRV, which is a forced-ranking method which elects the candidate with the majority of first place rankings if one exists, and if not throws out all votes for the candidate with the lowest number of first place rankings (leaving the next-ranked candidate first on those ballots) and then tries again, repeating until some candidate has a majority of first place rankings.

Neither is, IMO, a particularly good single winner election for candidates for political office (though there are some other uses of voting for which I think Approval is a good method -- for instance, in social situations where opting out of an activity is permissible and an approval vote has a crystalized meaning of "I opt out unless one of the alternatives I've marked is selected, and I commit not to opt out if one of those alternatives is selected"), but they are the most commonly recommended alternatives to the US's more common methods of plurality and majority-runoff vote-for-one elections, probably because they are the alternative mechanisms that are structurally most similar (AV can be viewed as a generalization of plurality -- he who gets the most # of votes wins -- without a vote-for-one restriction, and IRV is simply using a ranked ballot to allow a simple generalization of majority-runoff to be done off a single balloting.)
I too don't like the name that they've given the "leash" feature. It seems like it just alerts you when your dog has gotten away... which is often too late to do anything about.
Well if they really "Developed complete self-supplied He3 fuel cycle" like it says on their website, that is number 3) right there.
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You can't "breed" 3He; you have to breed tritium, which
decays to He3 with a half-life of 12 years.

Huh, I didn't know that. Helion directly claim they've "developed [a] complete self-supplied 3He fuel cycle", though. How did they manage that? Are they just massaging the truth, by saying that warehousing the tritium exhaust for a decade, then putting the 3He back in the reactor, still counts as a closed fuel cycle?

I imagine you could produce 3He by hitting deuterium with a proton beam, (or doing something exotic with 4He, or 6Li) at incredible cost per litre of produced 3He, but that's not really a "fuel" cycle, since the power reaction isn't involved in any way...

Fusion reactors are generally made from boron carbide

??? Source? I've never seen a vacuum chamber cast from boron carbide, and you certainly can't make magnets out of it, which have to be centimeters away from the reaction, and therefore get irradiated. Are there any running fusion experiments that use internal boron carbide cladding to shield the vacuum chamber walls?
I am a net neutrality advocate in the sense that I'm against artificial traffic shaping. Netflix offering peering and cacheing solutions to offload massive amounts of traffic is not the same thing, and, in fact, is an attempt to prevent ISPs from shaping its traffic.
IQ is only significant within its own context and that significance is functionally limited even within that context: an individual requires an IQ above a certain threshold to not be considered "developmentally delayed" but above a certain threshold, it also doesn't mean much.

By context, I mean that IQ has meaning for the way life is for humans right now, but given a return to an earlier context (hunter-gatherer) or a transition to a new context (say some high-tech utopia where computers do the heavy thinking), it becomes functionally meaningless.
"what happens if the Chinese or Russian government has covert access to this system and strategically leaks information with the purpose of influencing US elections"

This is probably already happening, though it isn't China or Russia.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-said-to-have-offered-...
Not if you read the Constitution. This question is not up for a simple majority vote.
This is true, but a focused bomb is also one more likely to be used because you're not laying the countryside to waste using it.
We do have a base station coming out in the next few months! It is called "Play-tag: home base"

We were thinking about crowd sourcing, but still on the fence. What's your thought on it?
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I have moved to the negative zone after trying the B button. :)

http://i.imgur.com/pkZhTCJ.jpg

The screens are positioned correctly next to each other.

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Are you writing this in assembly?!
There is a Seinfeld for every social occasion, a bit like xkcd: "The Close Talker"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVSIkEi3mM
not sure if its something great; its a silly ux bug that should have been caught earlier or accounted for in advance.
True. But he will think he is NSA safe, if he uses an App on his iPhone with the word Secure in the name. And this is actually what many of the Apps out there are promising without being able to say for sure themselves.
> Biologically, it's still reproductive failure.

On the contrary, how many children one has is ultimately selected by evolution. For a given species in a given environment, there is an optimal number of offspring. Too few or too many, and the trait is selected against.

This is the simplest calculus of natural selection. What this means is there is no "reproductive failure" in the sense you propose, there are only the blind choices natural selection makes. And the successful blind choice is not always "as many as possible", not in any real environment.

> A culture that chooses to not have children is a culture that has decided to stop existing.

So tell me the names of Einstein's children. Give up? They're special and general relativity, and the photoelectric effect. They look great in family group portraits.

My point? In modern times, ideas have a life of their own. Some people choose to have ideas instead of children. Some of those ideas have an influence that no child could possibly equal.
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That doesn't mean the hard drives can serve multiple 10Gb at once. And why would ISPs give them space, power, and cooling for free when every other colo'd box (including CDNs like Akamai) pay for that?
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I have written two books so far and have a third outlined.
They are marketing ideas and how-to books.
I made a few thousand euro from them so far(They still sell) but perhaps more importantly they helped open a few awesome doors for a me a couple of months ago when I was looking for a job. I ended up with some great job offers.

I wrote up 12 things i learned from my first book here: http://beautiful-email-newsletters.com/books/12-things-i-lea...

For my second book the learning was about making time to aggressively market the book and having a plan in place.
I found after the hard work of writing the book I did not have the energy to do the marketing straight away. I should have taken a break before launching.
I'm with you - it's a pretty BS term to describe what those category of jobs actually are, but it's also one that people use to describe the category.
GPS would make the product cost twice as much - and we want to make this accessible to more dog owners.
Perhaps version two though!
Thanks for your input.
Remembrall: An app that gives a slight beep or vibration after 1 min, 3 min, 10 min, 30 min, 2 hrs, and 6 hrs. When I want to remember something (like the name of someone I just met) I tell the app and whenever it alerts, I review the fact in my head to refresh my memory.
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The marketing seemed to be centered around reducing the risk of a lost pet. If this is truly the goal, having a crowd sourced mesh network for recovering a lost pet seems like an ideal feature.
Is there an API or a way to get the raw beacon ID being broadcasted? I am already thinking of some really cool projects you could make with this.

Beacon aware doggie doors, doggie location analytics within the house, a treat dispenser that gives each of your dogs only a certain allotment of treats per day based on their beacon ID, a doggie photo booth that sends the photos back to their owner when the dog triggers it, and the list goes on and on.
I once felt this way as well (and a little part of me still does), but I think its normal.

For the past few months, I've talk to possible 12-20 people per day, salesmen, marketers, business owners, the works. On occasion, I'll talk to someone and they've completely forgotten who I am, and I find the conversation goes the exact same way as before. Even if I'm 'off script', they're still going through the motions they rely on, and probably don't realize they ask the same questions in the same way and give the same responses.

For my part, there's only so many ways I can respond to a given situation. So what if I happen to fall back to well worn neural paths, and spit out "wow, that's sounds so hard".
> Well, the business model is hard to get right. It's faster than plane and car on medium distances, but capital costs are enormous compared to either.

Consider the climate impact costs. Part of the problem is that airlines and car owners externalize a significant cost, making those modes of transportation seem relatively less expensive. In reality, everyone else covers those costs.
Or: "tax shirks" wirks well.
It's for medium range trips, where avoiding all the airport & airplane BS will make it a shorter trip. For example, SF to LA in 2.5hrs / 350 miles
It's a stereotype that us geeks are poorly socialized. After the all-too-common years of school bullying and stunted social growth that entails, I was lucky enough to meet the right people and learn better skills of communication and empathy.

Politeness for me started as a facade to hide behind, but over time it turned into a tool of empathy and connection. I believe this to be my most useful and powerful skill, far beyond any technical skill I have.

I wish more geeks (such as Lennart Poettering to name just one notorious hacker) would learn this.
That's a good question. The short answer is the energy that it takes to extract D2 from water is so small compared to the fusion energy released it isn't a factor. That is reflected in the cost of D2O at about $0.70 per gram. In a fusion reactor, even with inefficiencies, that gram of D2O will create about $1000 worth of electricity.
Hypothetically, what if you actually believed it in every instance? That is, what if you genuinely felt (as I do) that nearly all jobs are hard. Granted, some may be harder than others, but I've never met anyone who worked a job I would describe as "not hard."