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Perhaps. It's mostly the business school and the law school that are well-renowned. For most other fields, it is a rather generous step down from the Harvards, Yales, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins (and yes, Berkeley), etc. in terms of quality of faculty, students, and research.

HYPS and quality doesn't necessarily translate to good classroom teaching. Most learning at HYPS-grade schools happens outside of the classroom, and indeed, the classrooms are often not very good. It translates to good peer group and professors to learn from, good opportunities (e.g. to do research, internships, and have access to labs and equipment for engineering students), and good reputation and network after graduating.

Chicago is aggressive in terms of targeting US News and World Report, but a lot of the indicators are non-indicators of quality. For example, 99% of Chicago freshman continue there, and the 6-year graduation rate is 93%. Many other schools are a bit more selective about pruning students who really ought not have gotten in, and have somewhat more rigorous academic requirements. Chicago has good student:faculty in classrooms, since that's in the ratings, but as a result of faculty spending time there, perhaps a bit less faculty contact outside of classrooms (in research and similar settings). Etc. A lot of that might collapse if they run into financial troubles.
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Hmmm. This presses one of my buttons.

An RFC that justs explains a data format is essentially useless to me. Well, the format of a file is an important part, but it's less than half the story behind what's there, because you're missing a lot of semantics (that are not easily described in english).

There are many "campfire story" class RFCs that raise my blood pressure because they take a complex subject and describe its syntax and formatting and layout pretty well, but leave the hairy algorithmic stuff in the domain of hand-wavy and loose English.

For some reason we leave critical infrastructure open to interpretation. We don't have standards that actually help implementers make sure that what they've written is correct, instead we have documents that try to describe correct behavior and maybe provide a little guidance. For some reason it's gauche to ship working code in an RFC [I've been reading standards for 35 years and I used to work for NIST, I think I know the issues with code in an RFC -- they seem easily surmountable].

There are very important RFCs that don't have reference implementations in their (HTTP, I'm looking at you. If you've ever written an HTTP proxy then you know the particular hell I'm talking about, and don't get me started on PKI or -- oh Lord -- CSS).

On thing that caught my eye here was the section on the B-tree in the sqlite file format. I've written these, they are hard to get right. But the section here is an english description of a very complex data structure, and if this appeared in an RFC and you asked ten different developers to reimplement it then you'd wind up with wildy different interpretations of the text, all non-interoperable until the world finally decided to have some kind of "interop fest".

So I'm happy that SQLite already has a publically available b-tree implementation. Because you won't have a "standard" without that code, and QED.

Complex standards need reference implementations. Just calling something an RFC doesn't make it more useful. Also, forcing ivory tower types to write working code is the best anodyne I know against unimplementable and overly complex standards.
eh?

"Cross-sectional survey during the roll-out phase of the
law, analysed by timing of survey."

"How does increasingly plainer cigarette packaging influence adult smokers’ perceptions about brand image?"
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I can get over it. Even if it's more like cloning than copying.

I found an old issue of Wallpaper Magazine from 1997 with ad's for Mark Newson's watch named Ikepod. Both the name and the watch are similar to the iPod that appeared first time in 2001. Apple has off course copied a lot it's design from Braun's Dieter Rams. Rams is has retired, but Newson has just started working for apple.
> why function pointers can't be forced into even alignment

The actual instructions are aligned on an even byte boundary; however, on AArch32, encoding interoperability is achieved with BLX or BX, which uses the low bit as a tag value: 0=A32, 1=T16/32. However, in a lisp interpreter, e.g., you should never find a function pointer in an "object" context; i.e., something which could be an integer instead.
I am not sure whether I understood everything right, but I think they computed just with the data they got from the links to Facebook-Profiles.

Although their computing is very smart, the output cant be better than the input they used. Just determining the gender by looking up a related Facebook-Profile should therefore be a better solution in my opinion.
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I would assume that energy follows the path of least resistance. Hence, all the energy went up and out and not down.

Notably Bogota sits in a huge valley, so they are also less likely to have been affected by the surface sound wave as well.
> “Being born into a moment when the fate of the universe is at stake is a lot of fun.”

Hubris, like heroin, offers an approximation of ecstasy. Therein lies its danger.
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Solar storm destroying a large part of the grid, leading to some heavy disruption including nuclear meltdown.

The inversion of magnetic pole could have some impact on how we are shielded from space radiation.
Its in a huge valley if that has any bearing.
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Which is exactly why you get in the cab, then tell the cab where you want to go. Do it in the reverse order and the cab will take off without you in it.
I thought it was the bug tracker but I was wrong. The correct URL is https://bugreport.apple.com and that works fine.
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amazing article. i've been up there a few times, had no idea what was under my feet
I wish I'd turned up before the grandparent comment got downvoted to deletion, in order to point out that what we're discussing here could just as easily, and rather more accurately, be considered the result of "a natural competition, when one species eventually loses and dies out".
I totally agree for Chrome, Safari ..., but IE isn't one of those. At least I think it's a little bit disturbing if I can't find browser support list on any new frontend framework that pops out, even if Mozilla is behind it.
If this is something that you are interested in, and you have some free time, the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is always looking for volunteer mappers. There were some mapping tasks related to the Syrian crisis, but I believe now the current ebola outbreak is taking priority. Anyway, they are always looking for help:

To map something now:
http://tasks.hotosm.org/

More on HOT:
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/get-involved

"HOT benefits from contributors with a wide range of interests and experience. Almost anyone can make a tremendous contribution to our projects by contributing mapping, but we're also very pleased to hear from developers, documenters and ideas hackers that can engage with us and our work."
Many thanks to the Perl community for CPAN! Having an easy to access repository of reusable libraries has given us more power to develop cool stuff than any specific language features. That's why nowadays every important programming language has some sort of CPAN clone.
Correct. They didn't mention alternative points of views either, like "Is it secure", "Is it encrypted", "Is it centralized", "Are there competitors". It's a bit one-sided towards FireChat.
This is actually brilliant. It fixes my (relatively minor) gripes with the standard iPython front-end. Namely the multiline mode is miles better, so so much better.

Already mentioned on the thread somewhere else is an issue with autocompletion on imported modules, but that sounds like a bug that will be fixed.

I'm using the ipython mode and there are a couple of differences. For example I'm used to typing 'hist -l 100' to see the recent history, now I need to use the magic ipython variant '%hist -l 100'. Not a big deal, just slightly different behaviour.

The vi-mode is actually not too bad. For me it's good enough to be used in this context. Would be great if it was more complete (eg, daw doesn't work). Maybe it could make use of neovim at some point?

I LOVE that a syntax error means the line isn't flushed so you can fix the issue and hit enter to execute it again. That's a really smart enhancement that I hadn't even noticed was a total waste of time in my workflow until now.

Does it read my local iPython config profile? I use auto-reloading heavily for hot code swapping during my development, will that still work?

Edit: just tested and the iPython auto-reloading isn't working. Maybe it needs to be converted to run as a front-end to get the full power of iPython?

Also, needed to do PYTHONPATH=. ptipython --vi to be able to load modules from the directory in which I started the app.
It depends on what you're trying to measure by "economic mobility" though. I can think of valid reasons to want to know the percentile change between a person and their parents, irrespective of the absolute value difference, and reasons to be interested in the different-but-related measure of absolute change in income/quality of life.

It's generally better to start with the question "what do I want to know?" and then looking for a suitable statistical framework that will answer that question, rather than starting with a ready-made statistical analysis and then trying to use it to answer arbitrary questions.
Mobility is about moving between classes of society. So, the society you just described would be rightfully described as having high social mobility. What it probably does not have is high average wealth.
If you want a vivid illustration what the free market does to a product, which is a natural monopoly you need not look any further then the UK train system.

It's not only considered the most expensive, but is also in line for the price of the most atrocious train network anywhere in Europe.

Another great example is broadband in the US.

Both are market economy in action.

Now, I'm not claiming that centrally planned (and usually government operated) infrastructure is the best choice in any case. What I do argue, however, is that there are a lot of examples where the free market doesn't know best, enables operators and companies to make indecent and unfair profits, while shafting the populace at the same time.

> For an example see, any centrally planned economy, ever.

Just an example to counter that absolutism: The city of Prague has one of the best public transport systems just about anywhere. You can get to anywhere within in the pretty big city by tram, bus and metro. Day and night.

It could never provide this level of service if it would be forced to operate under free market forces.

Oh, and it's an inheritance from Communist times.
Is there a way to upload image without "attachment" in content disposition header?
I haven't read Bostrom's Superintelligence so I may be wrong here, but this whole Evil Paper-clip AI seems like a really silly thing. First of all making paper-clips does not require super intelligence, just a simple automaton. If we however do employ AI to make paper-clip it should know how many we need on average, and what are they used for. If the paper clips are for our (human) use, the AI will be really dumb if it does not take under consideration that destroying humans to make paper clips does not make sense.
More like good people unwittingly spreading information which they do not know are fake. Memes in the proper sense of the word - idea viruses.

Every circular warning email you got in your email 10 years ago with the words "This happened to a friend of my fathers and is true" and "Share this around! Everyone must know about this!"
Great point, here's a good recent post with some pictures of OSM data collection in Syria specifically
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/openstreetmap-data-in-syria/

If you're in London there's a mapathon tonight
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/missing-maps-hot-september-ma...

and many more upcoming events
Well, the ones who survive would be fine, eventually. In the short term there'd be a horrible Malthusian die-off of those many cattle which were in excess of the post-agricultural carrying capacity, and which had theretofore lived purely as a result of human ingenuity and effort.

It's just possible, I think, that you got downvoted less for whatever reason your apparent dietary persecution complex leads you to imagine, than for seeming not to have thought this point through.
Humans have a problem with complexity and compound causality in general; any person who succeeds does so by some combination of both individual grit, and support from society and loved ones (even if indirectly), regardless of what the proportions happen to be (if one could even measure such a thing). Thinking that success must derive exclusively from either society or the individual is sheer absurdity, driven by a need to impose an idealized narrative upon messy reality.
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Had to go look at the game after reading the cached page (no images): http://store.steampowered.com/app/258520/

It's beautiful. Though... Windows only.

I wonder, how much effort does it take to make a game work multi-platform (+Mac, +Linux)?
Op here. The urls are randomly generated combined with the chosen filename, I assume this should be safe enough. Links will expire in 2 weeks. Working on functionality where you can configure the lifetime. Eg, just 1 download or 2 days.
Op here, good point. Will update the demo ;-)
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OP here. Yes, I have plans to opensource this. I'm just looking for the right awesome design, then it will be opensourced.
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OP here. Right this is the public / private encryption. The sample from on the site itself is symmetric encryption (using pw).
Having to fight with the node.js package-space just increased my appreciation for CPAN, its content and users. Perl might never had much luster and got slightly outpaced by other scripting languages within the last few years, but it's got a very solid foundation, unlike e.g. Tcl.

Managing projects with perlbrew and carton is pretty convenient, and you're free to choose between old-style modular development or various object systems, both lite and heavy, with syntactic sugar or not (recent discovery: Moops).
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You might also want to add a delay at the end of the animation before looping. As it is you only see the end result for a single frame.
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> You take a screenshot, it is automatically uploaded to my butt (no pun intended) and the link is copied to your Clipboard.

No pun detected ;)
For ruby there's something similar called pry http://pryrepl.org which I've been using instead of irb for a while now. It's great news to do something similar with python now too.
This works also with transfer, eg.

ls -la | curl --upload-file - https://transfer.sh/bla.txt
Indeed. Just yesterday a buddy told me of how he knew someone a few years ago (great story I know) who was gaming telephone subscriptions. He'd go into the system and check a box, say 'extra 500 minutes' with a deal that gave the first 3 months for free. This is normally what you do after you close such a sale when a customer buys the extra deal, you go into the system and register it. Only now he'd just do it without the customer knowing. 3 months later he'd cancel it. His sale was still registered and his customer never knew or ever paid, and he got his sales bump.

And another friend of mine works at a big software company (SAP, Oracle, those sorts of companies) in sales. Basically he has to generate leads, pass them on, and if they're closed he hits his target. So what most people do is they call the manager and suck up to him, and ask him to register a closed sale's lead as one of his. A lot of these sales are simply recurring sales, or sales closed when a customer called the company, as opposed to closed after a cold-call led to a lead. Long story short, you've got people hitting their targets without generating any leads or sales, making $40k a year and moving into the same closing function two years later without ever having done anything.

The idea seems pretty straightforward, once you create a metric, people will game it. And it seems a single person designing the system (the metrics, the governance of the metrics) over time continuously gets outsmarted by the hundreds or even thousands of people that are incentivized to find the loophole in the design of that individual.
Hey, thank you for taking the time to explain this. I really appreciate it.

I'm having trouble seeing how that explanation would explain the case at hand. Your explanation is likely correct, and I'm probably just thinking about it incorrectly. Would you mind pointing out the flaw in my logic?

In this scenario, a volcano's boom was so loud that it traveled through the atmosphere, all the way around the Earth. Your explanation is perfectly reasonable for thick atmosphere. In thick atmosphere, a soundwave is a pressure differential, and since molecules are densely packed together (since the atmosphere is thick), there's no choice but for the molecules to "slosh around." The high pressure areas will spread to the low pressure areas within the thick atmosphere and create a moving wavefront, exactly like you said.

But as the soundwave travels closer to space, the atmosphere becomes thinner. There are fewer molecules for the soundwave to travel through. That means a pressure differential will have less medium through which to traverse. Since there are fewer molecules, there's more room between them to absorb a pressure differential, right? For example, the reason sound travels so well underwater is because water is extremely dense in comparison to the atmosphere, so less energy is needed to travel an equal distance underwater. Correspondingly, near space where the atmosphere is thin, more energy would be needed to traverse an equal distance. That must mean that as the wavefront approaches space, the wavefront should dissipate. Since more energy is required to travel through less atmosphere, then as the atmosphere approaches zero, the energy required for a wavefront to travel one meter should approach infinity, and that's why it seems like the wavefront should dissipate near the edge of the exosphere.

But in this case, the wavefront didn't dissipate. The volcano's boom kept on going all the way around the Earth, and it was somehow able to maintain its energy. If the soundwave travels as a sphere from its point of origin, then that sphere should have a hard time traveling all the way around Earth, shouldn't it? So it must not be travelling as a sphere, but something else.

You're saying that "something else" is diffraction. I'd like to understand that. How is it that a wavefront of such intensity can approach the exosphere where it should dissipate, yet not dissipate and instead keep traveling all the way around the Earth due to diffraction?
Slow it a bit down too while you are at it.
Maybe I don't understand what this service actually does. When you take away the file expiration and the convenience of not having to manage your own infrastructure what is left? I've had this script in ~/bin for years.

SERVER="example.com"
LOCATION="public_html/uploads"
BASE_URL="http://$SERVER/uploads"

scp "$1" "$SERVER:$LOCATION"
echo "$BASE_URL/$1" | xclip -i
So it looks like you're looking for work in Galway - often called an overgrown village. Galway definitely does have a software development industry but it is not exactly a hackers Mecca. Just be aware that you are not in a big market. In Ireland Dublin is by far the best place to be getting work.

As others have said; get your CV to within 2 pages.

Other local knowledge:

- The objective section of the CV is pretty common in Ireland as an alternative to a cover page.

- Recruitment agencies dominate the market. If you are avoiding them this will seriously hurt your prospects.

- I'd strike out the Austria address if you still have it in there, as an island anything hinting that you are not based in the country will put people off. Also you should get an Irish mobile number, the +43 says "I'm not based here" to me.

- Work histroy is generally the top section (after an objective/about section if you have one). Make sure work history highlights competency for the roles you are going for.

- Don't include a photo, it is the done thing in a lot of europe but is not done in Ireland.
Wait, payment processing is seeing a lot more competition and now they decide to split? I don't know if this is such a "value creation" move.
Sadly, got (a go clone of T by the same author) isn't far along: https://github.com/sferik/got
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Great decision, allowing PayPal to grow beyond the virtual ceiling placed by being governed by a marketplace company which rightly has its own agenda before PayPal's.
I use hubot and slack(or idobata), what Morph does. Visual editor and live change is useful, especially trial and error phase!
Youtube weren't significantly better:

https://gigaom.com/2010/03/18/viacom-google-youtube-founders...
Obviously we don't actually need a superintelligence to make paper clips, it's just an example to illustrate that an AI won't do what you want it to do if you program its motivations incorrectly. If you haven't programmed an AI to place sufficient importance on human life, and then tell it to maximize paperclip production, it could take that as its primary goal and see humans as made from raw material it could use to make more paperclips. It may know that you want the paper clips for human use, but does it have any reason to care if it hasn't been made with that as part of its goal system?
Yet there are some people that work 60 hours per week and some that choose to not work at all. The people in the first camp are typically more successful than people in the second camp. Articles like the OP discount their efforts and accomplishments completely.
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From what I can tell the UI's look fairly similar

They may look superficially similar, and at a high level have the same tools, but from a fundamental workflow point of view there are too many things that are just very different (non-destructive editing, smart objects etc).

the team itself have said in various ways that they'll never have as their goal to be a "Photoshop clone"

And that would be fine and if they'd done something unique or innovative with the UI and really made it their own. Unfortunately they didn't and they're stuck looking kind of like a half-baked Photoshop clone. And as long as that is kind of what they look like, then that is how they'll be judged.
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If a loud noise was heard there, or nearby, it would likely have been reported...? I didn't get very far searching the web for something like that. One would probably have to go to the Bibliotecas de Bogotá and check newspapers from the day.

Any Colombians reading this...?