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I am doubtful whether the free market exists anywhere in the world (please correct me if I am wrong). My theory is that whenever it tends to exist, a few corrupt players (government or private) will tend to game the system and take all the riches for themselves and the market will not be free any more. That is because the Econ 101 which free market theorists tend to talk about does not take into account human psychology which is far more important.

The alternative is a shared sense of social well-being(not socialism or communism) with healthy government intervention, rather than individualism which Americans seem to be fond of. I would accept a lower GDP where people are happy (subjective) over the American way of life any day.
I would also like to know what the definition of "heavily armed K9 unit" is in this case.

"They were strapped to the gills,” according to the property owner, per the original article the Post referred to.
This seems like rampant speculation. At least the title of the post doesn't imply the search is over. :) The assumption that the universe is two entangled quantum particles is a stretch, to say the least.

And maybe I'm missing a piece of the argument but it seems a terrible leap to say that because they can observe this static-outside, dynamic-inside effect that now time is an illusion might be an even larger stretch. Even if all these speculations and assumptions were proven true, how does this render time as an illusion? Isn't the proper conclusion that time is just an internal process which essentially shielded from observing externally? It seems more like conservation of time rather than "time is an illusion". I have always liked the idea of a static universe that our conscious minds are zipping though.
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Viadeo is worst. I have closed my account like three of four times ... they keep reopening it and spamming me. If I receive another mail from them, I will complain to the CNIL.
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Really seems like more of a snapanopticon than a snapception.
It's not? Seriously I worked NASA and that episode was entirely plausible (except for the explosion after effects), and not as expensive as other things Top Gear has done. Why are you saying it was faked?
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I wonder if the big story is about a different predator species so apex that wolves are basically a hobby for it, and how changes in the behavior and priorities of that species can have dramatic impacts on the park.
It is depressing, but perhaps expected, that an article about a quantitative approach to historical analysis includes one anecdote and no additional data.

I was able to dig up this paper:

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/26/9419.full

which is sufficiently dense to require some time to read and consider.
Snapchat use ECB as the cipher mode of operation: https://github.com/thebradbain/snapception/blob/781ebb13cd7e...

To see why this is a problem, see the ECB-encrypted Tux image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operation#...

Oops.
Couldn't one just as simply say "Programmers are toxic to business. They're classically myopic optimizing for 'fun' technical stacks without understanding the business they're working in." That's obviously untrue as well.

Is that untrue? I'd say it's true, and it's exactly why you need a skilled manager to keep an eye on the big picture. Programmers are professional rabbit-hole chasers, and it's extremely easy to lose sight of the business goals.

The difference is that the programmer, if properly wrangled, creates real value. The MBA, in my opinion, primarily creates the impression of value.
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As a Dutch freelancer, I will avoid collective pension funds like the plague. I'm quite certain that once I reach the age of my retirement (70?), there will be very little money, if any, left in the collective funds.

The biggest issue with the Dutch pension system is that one doesn't safe for himself / herself, but instead pays for the current elderly people. With more and more elderly people and less and less workers, eventually this system won't be sustainable anymore.

Dutch people should watch this informative movie: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6576741/e81f2c3e/beste_pensi...
You are absolutely right. That's because when a parametric query
arrives, the parameters are unbound and the planner cannot take
advantage of fit-to-purpose selectivity estimation. It must instead estimate generically.

Newish versions of Postgres (9.2+ I believe) try to paper over this
surprising effect by re-planning queries a few times to check for cost
stability before really saving the plan. It has proved very
practical.

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-prepare.html's notes
section, reproduced here:

Notes
If a prepared statement is executed enough times, the server may
eventually decide to save and re-use a generic plan rather than
re-planning each time. This will occur immediately if the prepared
statement has no parameters; otherwise it occurs only if the generic
plan appears to be not much more expensive than a plan that depends
on specific parameter values. Typically, a generic plan will be
selected only if the query's performance is estimated to be fairly
insensitive to the specific parameter values supplied.
thank you! Sorry you missed it, however if you would still like one, your backing would be appreciated!
He'd probably want to speak to you.
That color sketch of the goings-on at Old Bailey was way cooler than any infographic.
Maybe Intel just fudged the certification requirements for Apple?
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It's a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, so of course it gets one.

It's also used by thousands of craft worldwide and is probably more feature-complete.
Code is a brilliant book, but I am not sure if the "non-technical" people will enjoy it beyond a point. The part where starts talking about flip-flops can be pretty complicated for someone who is not too interested in technology.
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http://jsfiddle.net/chrismccoy/cuz7ugL8/

quick fiddle to dump the json
I'm paraphrasing Niko Matsakis, Rust's type guru.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/07/09/an-e...

"This scheme simplifies the code of the type inferencer dramatically and (I think) helps to meet our intutions (as I will explain). It is however somewhat less flexible than the existing inference scheme, though all of rustc and all the libraries compile without any changes."
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It looks like you edited your comment. The original link was:

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/holy-g...

and now it is:

http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/sticky...

The latter is not what I described, and I can't get the former to work even in the latest Firefox.
Autolayout is definitely planned out better than the jumble of thoughts and improvements that has become CSS. Personally, my biggest issue was the learning curve, like you said. Trying to do very simple layouts (that were trivial on older versions of iOS/XCode) required a lot of reading through documentation just to get started. And a lot of fighting with strange errors I hadn't seen before. I imagine that as the XCode constraints/layout UI continues to improve this will be less of an issue.
Absolutely love these. Bought the physical printed book version last year and keep it on my desk for inspiration whenever I'm working on something and feel like the world is working against me.

Will there be printed versions of this year's book?
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I dislike Microsoft and their evil ways, but Bing has its uses.
Arrow's theorem has to be one of the most overhyped and overplayed theorems in existence. Here, for instance, are three major things what it doesn't say:
1) That all voting systems are equivalent in any sort of meaningful sense
2) That the current voting system you are using is not awful
3) That a perfect class of voting system doesn't exist if you are willing to accept that rock-paper-scissors situations can happen among people's preferences.

I'm not being hyperbolic here. Number 1 and 2 are how people quickly use vague citations to Arrow's Theorem to shut down talk about voting reform even when the status quo consists of provably terrible systems like plurality voting.

Number 3 is the true result that if you relax the rather overly-strongly defined IIA criteria with a much more-reasonable criteria -- that the winner must remain among the top rock-paper-scissors loop of the voters -- then Arrow's theorem simply doesn't apply. This is well known: that "top loop" is the Smith Set and every Condorcet method of voting satisfies it.

There's also another interesting result: if voters have merely "single-peaked preferences", such as opinions about where to set a volume knob, then Arrow's theorem also doesn't apply since there will be no rock-paper-scissors set of equally fair options.
Just to add to this, getting in touch with a Wikipedian who deals with this sort of thing a lot - preferably before starting the assignment, but if necessary after some sort of drama has occurred - probably goes a long way. There are a lot of under-watched corners of Wikipedia where territorial fruit loops sit on guard, but experienced editors usually know how to navigate those rough waters when they come upon them.

Generally when people start these courses they just notify everyone ahead of time, get advice from wikipedians, make sure the students are adequately sourcing and documenting their process, etc. You tend to have these conflict issues when a student goes into an article and dumps a whole bunch of changes of varying quality in there at once, then doesn't know where to go to find sympathetic editors who can sort out relevant quality and policy concerns from basic territorial behavior.
ZigBee modules are available for less than $20 in single units. Just how much cheaper do you expect them to be?
The license may be expensive, but the manufacturer is making the interfaces by the millions and that cost is amortized across the base.
Just for arguments sake: aren't we convinced there is a mystical science of "systems administration" that applies equally well in any company...?
i think you need to read my comment again because "private:" in a class is not the only way to implement private data. you are only repeating what the parent commenter said.
Their point was, I believe, that you could store copies of all snaps sent to you without anything on your device which snapchat could "check" to see if it was being interfered with.
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Why does the International Space Station have a downward facing light?
That isn't really true. OS X is based on BSD, which is not "the original UNIX." The original Unix was closed source and was actually quite proprietary.
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Isn't the real question whether humans are good at generating constraints?
That's a much better reason. But such a problem isn't set in stone.
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In my experience, android layout is significantly easier to 'get right' and significantly more understandable at a glance than iOS autolayout. I really like what autolayout is trying to accomplish, but it isn't at the level of Android for me yet (I really like the idea of the visual format, however). I appreciate that the constraint system is a general solution to the problem, but, as we see in the grid layout case, sometimes specific solutions are a better answer.

We do all our iOS layout in code, and all our Android layout in XML (or all that we can, save the 1% that necessitates munging in the Java). This probably affects my opinion, since Java layout code for Android is just as obtuse as the objective-c autolayout, if not more so.
So looking at [this license](http://developer.cloudrail.com/license), am I to understand that the cloudrail client source js is licensed with GPLv2?
This is an issue in common lisp as well; you generally have the choice of either fork or threads. In fact ClozureCL, a popular lisp implementation launches an extra thread at startup (For I/O IIRC), and for a while someone maintained a fork of it that did not do so to allow usage of the fork syscall.
Always interesting, but given the median voter theorem is I'm not sure it's a problem in practice.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
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Sure it can get complicated, but there are also some safe ways to fork. Imagine you fork at the very beginning of your program before starting any threads. No danger in that. So the language could at least allow it (but provide the proper warnings around it).
At 0:12 in the youtube video you can see how it's done: you fake it like the big guys[1]. That white thing on the left looks exactly like a Phantom[2] landing gear.

The trouble with these small drones is that they are too light to be stable - the video will be shaky unless they do a lot of post-processing.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/6/3297878/nokias-pureview-sti...

[2] http://www.dji.com/product/phantom
How does gpg encrypt private keys?
Ive toyed with the idea in the past to create a custom parser for an alternative sql syntax - although I doubt I have enough knowledge to do so. Not necessarily revolutionary, mostly just a shuffling of normal sql syntax to make it more understandable like moving the selected columns to the end. One day maybe.
To be fair, that demo only works on an uncompressed bitmap image with large areas of solid color. It relies on the fact that identical input blocks encrypt to identical outputs, leading to visible repeating patterns. In a format like JPEG, which has an entropy-coding stage and all kinds of internal headers, the chance of encountering two identical blocks in a file is miniscule.

Of course ECB is still a very bad choice, because there are plenty of other ways to attack it. But recovering Snapchat images without the key would not be nearly as trivial as that example might suggest.
Sun did try multi-thread fork semantics, but that didn't help.

UNIX "fork" started as a hack. The reason UNIX originally used a fork/exec approach to program launch was to conserve memory on the PDP-11. "fork" originally worked by swapping the process out to disk. Then, at the moment there was a good copy in both memory and on disk, the process table entry was duplicated, with one copy pointing to the swapped-out process image and one pointed to the in-memory copy. The regular swapping system took it from there.

Then, as machines got bigger, the Berkeley BSD crowd, rather than simply introducing a "run" primitive, hacked on a number of variants of "fork" to make program launch more efficient. That's what we mostly have today. Plan 9 supported more variants in a more rational way; you could choose whether to share or copy code, data, stack, and I think file opens. The Plan 9 paper says that most of the variants proved useful. But that approach ended with Plan 9. UCLA Locus just had a "run" primitive; Locus ran on multiple machines without shared memory, so "fork" wasn't too helpful there.

Threads came long after "fork" in the UNIX world. (Threads originated with UNIVAC 1108 Exec 8 (called OS 2200 today), first released in 1967, where they were called "activities"). Exec 8 had "run", and an activity could fork off another activity, but not process-level fork. Activities were available both inside and outside the OS kernel, decades before UNIX.

That's why UNIX thread semantics have always been troublesome, especially where signals are involved. They were added on, not designed in.
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Show HN: DomainWho.is Domain Search Engine
This is a demo for a search engine SaaS I've been working on.

Any critique / feedback would be much appreciated; some examples of search functionality:

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=uk+distance%2851.506558%2C+-0....

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=face*

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=google+tld%3Acom

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=intitle%3Agolang

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=registrant.contact.email%3Adns...

- https://domainwho.is/search?q=tld%3Aio+order%3Aalexarank-asc

- https://domainwho.is/search?q="中国"+%7C+"中國"+roottld%3Acn

This is running on a single server instance at the moment, so apologies in advance if some of the queries are slow.

EDIT: You can also submit domains here: https://domainwho.is/submit

Indexing is real-time, so supported domains should be indexed moments after submission (if crawling was a success).
I don't know exactly what they're doing, but being able to reason that they are not performing file IO is a vastly easier problem than figuring out a completely safe point to kill them all.
A meaningful system, one that gets stuff done in the real world, comprises people, processes and technology. All are hackable.
To me there is plenty of Overtaking in WEC. I'd argue the quality of overtaking is better because it is created organically, and not because one car has DRS engaged, or one car has already used it's KERS boost for the lap. It comes from hitting lapped traffic, one car being a little faster on the straight, then the other car being a bit better into the corner, or because it is a Diesel having a lot more low end torque on corner exit.

I know some people hate this aspect of racing, but I love a good battle of pit strategy and execution. Watching the splits rise and fall as two cars exchange pit stops is fascinating to watch. The 24 hours of Le Mans can and has been decided by if all the other cars can run 4 fuel stints on a set of tires, but you can run a 5th stint once or twice in the course of a race.
The person in the picture isn't wearing one.
I found it very difficult to picture what exactly was supposed to go on in each maneuver based on the text. It would help to have more diagrams and to move the diagram near the bottom up to the top. The simulation video also didn't help, because it was in a first-person view for all of the interesting parts.
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>> MBA is billed as a "career changer"

This is the true problem. There's a false perception of what a business education actually provides people.

All it does is provide you with some knowledge. Whether that knowledge is applicable to your real professional career is up to the person receiving the education. And not all MBAs are equal, since there are multiple disciplines within the degree itself.

I got my MBA before the proliferation of the high priced "executive MBA", so I can't necessarily speak for the more recent MBA grads, but from my time, you didn't really acquire any real world skills from the degree. You basically acquired some knowledge that could help you understand certain situations you'd get in. There definitely was nothing that made a person behave or operate a certain way in a business situation.

The problem with the perception of MBAs is that it is somewhat conflated to the level of a profession or certification by people who don't know any better. Assuming that an MBA grad is a business expert is like assuming an English major is a grammar expert. It might be the case, but most likely, it's not.
All of those system calls are available in Python, FWIW.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html
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I'll just leave this here. I've pasted the link quite a time ago when this particular discussion last came up.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...

Accepting full-scale information collection on every individual also means accepting that any future use of that information may be used to harm you. Things that you do now may not be illegal, problematic or even embarrassing, but if they become any of that in 10 years' time, you now have to face a cache of (originally benign) evidence that can be retroactively applied against you.
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Thank you for the viewpoint.

MBAs, as used to segregate people in a bureaucracy, are a good idea. Your company has a pretty good idea that you have heard of accounting and it's theory, marketing as a profession, and the business and it's place in law and society having done an MBA. Yes, to many people, this is 'common sense' but with thousands of people working for you 'common' is very hard to come by. MBA degrees fill a function, to get everyone the same vocab, ideas, and implementations of those things. It leads to group think by design, it has to. You simply cannot have 500 people working together with different definitions or fuzzy ideas of what accounting actually does. It would be chaos.

MBAs are a symptom of bureaucracy, not a cause of it. Group Think as well, you have to have standard definitions, processes, and procedures. The issue is when you loose sight of that need and create orthodoxy.
> This release adds support for Xbox One controllers.

Why is support for such thing needed by the kernel?

Also, why are there some things that my CPU can do (virtualization) that require kernel modules?

Isn't virtualization more important than an xbox controller?
Yes, but the final data is sequential only. We were discussing about random access, which only applies to the intermediate shuffle file.

Maybe you can email me offline. I can tell you more about the setup and how Spark / MapReduce works w.r.t. to it.
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While I certainly won't take issue with your last paragraph, aren't you just taking exception to the fact that people disagree with you? You don't really know why the people who down-voted the parent comment did so, and are projecting a certain viewpoint upon those folks. That doesn't seem terribly honest or valuable either. Of course, you could very well be right, but I'm guessing if the down-voting were of an opinion you did not agree with, there'd be less of this "we should raise our standards" talk.

For my part, I would say that the parent made a couple of statements which were weakly-linked to the content of the article, and then ended it with what sounded like a victory lap ("Looks like progressive policies with healthy government regulation always works better than the free market."), which sounded kind of smug given that there seemed to be a few steps of the proof missing.

As an American living in the Netherlands, I've thought quite a bit about the different approaches taken to social welfare here and at home. If anything, my experiences have left me with much less certainty about which strategy is "best". They seem to optimise for different value systems.
Pensions are (your)savings, done by some large profitmaking organizations. Now all the money is in there they are starting to steal it(of course), with the excuse that the economy is in heavy weather. It is normal nowadays to see them scraping off 10% a year. Those billions are just magically disappearing. And all those hardworking people can say bye bye to their savings. It's more a proof that you can never trust a large profitmaking organization taking care of your money.
I searched for an exact domain I own (artsfuse.com) and it didn't find it, but it returned the .org version (artsfuse.org). Same result for "artsfuse*" Any idea how some are overlooked?
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