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You can't assess anything until college is over and you are actually in the real world. Good Grades does not mean you will succeed in real life. It mostly means you are good at following orders.
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Sorry, I did mean sales tax. Here in CA it is set per city: http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/pam71.htm

In the US it seems the onus is put on the consumer rather than the business. We should all be declaring our out of state purchases on our tax returns... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_tax
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You use OpenSCAD there? I have some questions about how your experience with OpenSCAD has been. Mind if I email you with some questions?
No doubt, satellites can perform the role of the SR-71.

My point is that the system we have in the US could not create a new SR-71 class airplane right now, in my view. It would run over budget, miss the performance targets, and be cancelled.
Very interesting content, but unfortunately bad rendering on Firefox. Better on Chrome but no scrollbars.
I actually disagree. I think the "view source" menu item probably helped the web evolve faster. I think the trade-off made tons of sense at the time.
Seconded. The community behind it is very active and responsive too.
I was thinking of car jacking... taking the entire car. UberLux/UberSux/UberBlack is essentially an on demand high end vehicle for thieves. They'd need a burner cell phone and stolen credit card... but that's a pretty low barrier.
If anybody missed it, the logo actually copies the little dribbly bits from the Heartbleed logo directly.
Touche.

No, I don't agree with your view of Falun gong; the line that you take is that of the CCP. There may be some truth to these allegations, but I wouldn't believe it, given that it is the CCP.

I did not mean to portray China as some "evil" machine, but I do think China has some way to go still, when it come to civil liberty.

Frankly, I think that Maoism befell China is a tragic mistake, even if the outcome has lately been positive. In that I also give away my colours.
Mosh is great, seriously. It just works, of course not nearly as battle tested as SSH but it practically works very well.

I used it alot when I ran an irc client (I use IRCCloud now).
> The problem with using exclusion in order to solve social problems is that sooner or later the group need to start hating others in order to validate a continuation of the exclusion.

I think this is a matter of perspective. When a certain section of a population (50% in this case!) is passively or actively discouraged from participation, I don't view an event like this as exclusion of the majority but as radical inclusion of the minority.

YCombinator plays a significant role in the community around tech entrepreneurship and, most importantly, how that community is portrayed to the rest of the world. I don't see how this relates to the Black Panthers which were started, as you say, as a response to institutional racism. If I were a gambling man, I would bet that the Black Panthers would have had much more of a cultural impact than they did if they were born out of, and were actively supported, by the same institutions whose behavior they fought against.

Furthermore, humanity's tribal instincts aren't inherently bad and often they serve a useful purpose. Who here hasn't band together with like minded individuals for support whens faced with adversity? The problem arises when that tribalism is used to put down other 'tribes' which I do not think is the intention here.
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My guess is that you won't find any course that explains all the prerequisite math. It's probably more useful to build a solid foundation in probability theory (and therefore calculus) before going on.

For machine learning, a good place to start is Andrew Ng's course on Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

It's pretty light on math, while at the same time giving you experience in implementing and understanding these techniques.

From there, I might recommend Learning from Data and the associated video lectures:

https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

It is a bit of a jump, but it is a great course in presenting the field of machine learning and explaining the mathematical and statistical underpinnings in a systematic way.
Another Stewart Brand fan. I had a WELL account. I used to go to the Hacker's Conference. No, computer technology did not come out of the hippie movement. It came out of the people who wore white shirts in the 1960s.

The Sidewinder story is interesting. I used to work for Ford Aerospace, which made the things at another location. The China Lake crowd developed proximity fuzes, designed to turn a near miss into a hit by detonating the warhead close to the target on a near miss. If they could do some steering correction, they could turn even more near misses into hits. The pilot using an early Sidewinder still has to get on the tail of the target, but they don't have to get as close. Sidewinders usually either get a direct hit or a complete miss, because the heat-seeker gets more accurate as it gets closer.

The competing radar-guided missiles of the era were trying to lock on at much longer ranges and hit the target on their own, like surface-to-air missiles. That's a much harder problem, and the electronics of the era wasn't up to the job.

The "China Lake culture" was simply that there wasn't anything else to do out there but work (it's in the middle of the Mojave Desert), visits from the top brass were rare, and they had all the facilities to build and test weapons without having to outsource fabrication. Plus they had planes, pilots, an airfield, and a bombing range. So a lot of work got done. China Lake was also a joint Navy-university setup with Caltech. (JPL, as a Caltech/NASA operation, is similar.) So they had access to theoreticians when necessary.
And I don't think it a secret that most people do not think that plane will ever be completed.

My comment about a secret project was referring to a hypothetical aircraft that is in operation but isn't publicly known.
I think good grades probably mostly means that you picked courses you're well suited for.
LLBLGen Pro has an excellent LINQ provider as well.
The problem with Revenj is that it seems to tied to dsl-platform, which looks like an online service. People would rather to have their compiler tools with them. You don't want your code investments to go 'poof' should the online service fails.
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Unbundling the search engine from all other commercial services essentially means splitting the company in two, even if they can still be called both "Google". Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but everyone else (Reuters. Telegraph, FT and a lot of others) seem to agree. In any case, all I'm saying I'd that it represents increased pressure, nothing more.

As for not mentioning Google directly, that's not really a great puzzle. Google is the only search engine with any relevance in a regulatory sense, and MEPs have mentioned it before. Of course, they must remain impartial, but it's not DDG they're worried about :)
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Where's the money here? It's not a subscription based service, so what financial sense does it make to dump this data straight to a server?

I can't imagine there's complex data processing being done that a smartphone can't handle, so I assume the data is being sent back because it's somehow useful or valuable to Microsoft.. but how?
> Those should be available on almost any Linux system, even on minimal installs:

> [..]

> Bash

Maybe I'm nitpicking here, but why Bash _should_ be available?
same on opera 15, but after a second video shows up just fine, silverlight (ahahaha lol) is used for something else (slides?) under the video

Video is displayed using Flash Flowplayer, you can extract mp4 from the source

for example first one is http://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Podcast/Embed/257476ca...
I have a "pre-existing working knowledge of probability, linear algebra, statistics and algorithms", but can't he be more precise ? I mean to what difficulty are those math used ?
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Remind me to kill myself when we're hard up enough as a species that we're eating bacterial slime to survive.
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They just launched a rocket into space which made it's way back successfully, and as designed.. on their first try. The animated gifs don't contribute much towards credibility when the achievements are this monumental.
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What a bullshit puff piece.

Checkpoint marketing is experimenting with new marketing techniques. No way this peacock-style creation could've come directly from engineering. They really want some of the CNN coverage that Heartbleed enjoyed, except now it will have a discreet "Checkpoint" logo in the corner. Ain't that clever.
We've used 3D printed plastic parts in surprisingly (to us, anyway) rigorous applications. We've used printed PLA parts as prototype bearing holders on seriously high speed rotating equipment. Strength is usually close to fiber reinforced Delrin or similar plastics.

3D printing let us try and tune successive iterations for best performance far more rapidly than we could have done with classical subtractive machining. OTOH, our 3D printers care about the room temperature and HVAC breeze, whereas a lathe or mill wouldn't notice. Tradeoffs....
James Burke's 1978 TV series, Connections, starts with just that quandry. He starts with the question [what do we do if all the electricity goes out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKELMR6wACw) and uses that zombie escape as a path to our bedrock tool: the plow.

The article reminds me a lot of Randall Monroe's What If? site when he answers questions like, [What if all the water disappeared](http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/).

And finally, I have lots of sympathy for the bug eating movement. I would totes eat cricket mcnuggets. But, when I went to buy some insects to make some, all I found was fish bait (unless I rear my own). I felt a bit dizzy and questioned my motives a while, before I remembered that those suppliers are targeting their predominant market.
I liked the overall idea, and I like that they're trying to fund the project via their own platform, and that they are a non-profit (right?).

So I had a look at their site — and apparently they're building their own forum, wiki, blog, and issue tracking software. This seems like things that can take a tremendous amount of time, and derail them from their main mission. And I'd guess the results would be average at best in comparison to what is produced by other teams that dedicate all their time on one thing, e.g. Discourse for new forum software.

Their model that calculates how much money that is paid out to each project feels like the opposite to what I would prefer. One would get paid something proportional to the number of supporters ^ 2. But if I wanted to donate money to something, then, if few other people donated, I would want to donate more, so that the project got a reasonable amount of funding. And if many people donated, I'd want to automatically donate less (not more), because I don't want the project to get more money than what it actually needs.

With Snowdrift's current model, I'm afraid a few projects will get a lot more money than what they actually need, and won't be able to use that money efficiently. Whereas most projects will get like $0.1 a month.

I'd love to see that their ideas work out well despite the things above :-) Best wishes to you the Snowdrift team.
I found a bug on me one morning upon awakening and became convinced I had bed bugs. After some googling, I built a cheap bed bug detector out of sugar solution and yeast, which produced a steady stream of CO2 for several days. Bed bugs are attracted to the CO2 we emit, and the detector lures them in, and then they drop into some soapy water for collection. After a few nights of nothing in the trap, I went back to the bug I had found that morning. I had wrapped it with a tissue and thrown it in a jar. On careful examination, it was not the right shape for a bedbug.

[1] http://www.bedbugcentral.com/bedbugs101/early-detection-tool...

[2] http://buymarijuanaseeds.com/community/threads/question-home...
Note how they drop the CVE number at the beginning of the article, even though it's not actually a published CVE yet. Is there any legitimate reason to do that other than to lend your news release a false air of authority to those who won't bother to go read the CVE?
I went back and looked up the details. It turns out that the protocol was that they were served two glasses of wine, one red, one white. They were actually the same (white) wine. The red wine had (flavorless) food coloring added. Yes, it's deceptive, but this sort of deception is common is psychological studies. I'd say it's fair game in this case.
Yes, I found the primary torture of having bedbugs is psychological. The slightest movement on your skin sets you off on a panicked bug hunt when it's really just an errant hair, or maybe a loose thread. Unfortunately, since we are hairy mammals and as the hair on our head tends to fall off all the time, and because hair tends to find its way inside our clothes and stick to our skin, there are hundreds of these sensations every day. The other problem is, hair is fine and we tend not to see it and assume it was just a bug that got away. This quickly makes you paranoid, and soon interferes with your ability to sleep soundly, which soon makes you irritated and eventually starts affecting your work. One of the first things to do when discovering an infestation is to realize this psychological problem and actively deal with it.

As for dealing with the bedbugs themselves, search for "the Missouri Method". It essentially consists of making it impossible for the bugs to reach you as you sleep, which 1) gives you instantaneous relief from bites, 2) avoids having to hunt all their hiding places, and 3) disrupts their lifecycle, which over a period of few weeks, kills them. Keeping them away typically involves the use of plastic or other smooth surfaces where their legs can't get a grip.

Note that the online tutorials go somewhat overboard, in my experience: you don't need airtight seals everywhere. I managed to treat the problem successfully simply by covering my mattresses and bed with a plastic sheet ($10 roll at Home Depot) and running packing tape horizontally along the walls (to keep them from getting onto the ceilings and dropping on to you; yes, they do that). A bed-sheet on top of the plastic sheeting provides little comfort, and the crackling of the plastic is really annoying, but the peace of mind knowing that bugs can't get to you will give you the best sleep you've had in weeks.
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Milling is great, but not very mass-efficient. Resisting the cutting forces involved in milling anything harder than light foam, requires a lot more structure than simply moving a deposition print head. Machinists use mass as a shorthand to talk about a machine's rigidity, with anything less than half a ton being basically a toy.

Remelting waste is possible, but this sort of high quality manufacturing is really hard, even on earth with gravity to keep material in a mold and hardly any mass or energy constraints. This, and the chip collection system add additional mass, have to be developed way before being put into orbit, and have to work extremely reliably. Even a tiny amount of swarf floating around the interior of a spacecraft could be disastrous.

We aren't focusing only on 3d printing, we're focusing first on 3d printing, because it can work today, with technology we have, on a low mass budget, and without jeopardizing the primary objectives of whatever mission includes it.
Presumably this means at the level of an introductory undergraduate-level course in each of those subjects (the kind of courses targeted at first or second year science/engineering undergraduates). You could try working through the material, and if anything is beyond you, it shouldn’t be not too hard to find the appropriate textbook and catch up.
That's a very very logical perspective of it, considering it from both sides.

A lot of times, my parents (mother and stepfather) played it off as "he needs to be disciplined etc", although they omitted certain truths when it came time to talk to the police. A punch to the side of the head was a "clip over the ear" etc. The police however seemed not to care, I will never forget hearing their "Ah yeah." reactions to it, but again they face the same thing as mentioned above. Even if you're not legally allowed to hit a child now, it's still seen in some places here as an unwritten omission of law to discipline your child if it is "Reasonable", such as a smack on the bum etc.

Indeed being kept inside the home wasn't really the bad part of it all. I have always been much of a loner, and it was very likely I wouldn't have done much outside of the home. I did sometimes "Run away" for nights, and I would walk through the city or walk out into the country for a very very very long time at night wondering where to go or what to do. Now that I look back on it, I'm actually very surprised albeit greatful that I never was abducted or robbed. But at that point, I didn't really care where I went or what happened because anything seemed better than what was going on at home.
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From a user perspective, it makes sense to upload the data so that you're not constrained to your phone for viewing your info.
And Microsoft gets a good use case for Azure - I imagine they might use this in promoting Azure services.
We love Heap's retroactive analytics and use custom attributes pretty regularly.
In general I think the distinction between physical, neurological and psychological is peculiar. It suggests that the mind is not physical but a metaphysical entity that can be be analysed separately from the body and vice versa.

My experience with both mental illness and physical disease is that a systemic perspective is important if we are to avoid fixating on finding a specific diagnosis and instead focus on quality of life.
Thanks for your comments.

Technically, the naysayers haven't bothered me too much, but a lot of people seem irked (and rightfully) that it was initially mistermed as an Operating System when in fact a simple shell of sorts. I have amended the imgur description since however.

As for what I'm doing at the moment, I'm a Lead Quality Assurance Analyst for a video games company. I love what I do, but as for pay, it's less than half the minimum wage. Goes to show that I REALLY love what I do I suppose, but I would really like to do something more technical someday. Perhaps special effects or something of the like.

I'd say the works were definitely a very important part of my life, although they were not necessarily a technical triumph by any means. I still claim that they're nothing more than a series of cheap hackery and tricks, but hey, even a Magicians work will entertain and amaze, even if it's not "really" happening you know?

My stepfather is still out there, but both time and emphysema will catch him in the end, so I try not to concern myself too much with it. Nature and tobacco will do its work.
But how can you tell if you actually caused the BSOD? ;)
The day I became a published author was the day I gave up on it. I'm still semi-careful about more sensitive details, but I realized in my case that my rep was bigger in my online name than it was in my own name, so the simplest solution was to abandon the pretense.

I think this can be a real stumbling block to success these days. Increasingly ones accomplishments are likely to be more visible online than anywhere, so trying to keep them divorced just shoots ones own foot in the process. If I had published my books under the name most people new me by rather than my real name, then what do I do when its time to apply for work or pitch myself further in real life?

Far easier to just wear my own face, for all its sins, but then I'm not usually a prime target anyway. When I have been, I just go dark for a while.
That's why you have to evaluate the grade in the context of the course! GPA is meaningless; individual grades are much more informative. See Harry Lewis, recently appointed dean of Harvard's engineering school, on the subject. [0]

The savvy employers do this—though probably not enough. There's a finance firm that hires exclusively Math 55 [1] alumni—I forget the name; a number of tech firms screen for CS161 [2]. Both among the hardest classes you can find. An A in those takes a hell of a lot more than just following directions.

[0]: http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/2014/11/can-we-find-better-w...
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_55
[2]: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~margo/cs161/
The only down side is that a country that can launch a payload into orbit, can launch that payload into an orbit that intersects the planet (effectively making it an ICBM).

This is exactly what the original space race was all about. All the launch platforms up until Saturn were for nuclear launch.
I know the answer to the following question is probably scattered in the comments below but, to get a concise/precise version of it in one place, I am going to ask it anyway - How does PAPL compare to SICP, HtDP, PLAI & EOPL considering there is quite some commonality amongst them? What does each book offer, what is the intended audience for each book, where do they overlap, which would be a good idea to read first for a novice?

Thanks in advance. :-)
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A low-tech MITM attack for barcodes:

Step 1: Buy a ruler and put it in your pocket

Step 2: Whenever you see a QR code on a poster or sign, measure its width and make a note of it.

Step 3: Have a bunch of stickers printed in the most common widths, and carry them in your bag.

Step 4: Whenever you see a QR code on a poster, place a sticker with your fun/malicious code on top of it.
Not a fan of this way of thinking about university, as though it's some power-up in the competition to make the most money. It's all very American. What about learning and being in an environment that inspires you?
And all the letters lived happily ever after.
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The download page at http://git-scm.com/download/mac still offers 2.0.1 even though the start page announces 2.2.1.
I didn't understand anything. Could you explain it with Alice and Bob instead ?
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I'm certainly reading! And with great interest at that, it's very interesting hearing of the other Australians who were in similar situations. I find it interesting too how a lot of those from America and other countries are quick to criticize the story and are shocked at how "you didn't have a mobile phone at age 13!?" or "I don't believe for a second that he didn't have an ADSL connection in rural Australia in 2002", or even the assumption that all our public schools in the outback of Australia were equipped with the latest in Pentium technology when in fact, some were as far back as 15 years out of date.

Thanks for the invite too. I don't know where I'd start with modern tech. I've been building up more knowledge over the years and started by purchasing each individual part to build my own system in 2009. I'm no whiz but I'd say I have a reasonable degree of literacy nowadays. The one thing I could use help with is getting started in modern programming. My head appears to still be stuck in the idea of using a simple text-editor-style compiler with no additional libraries, headers, (linkers?) etc required. I had a bit of trouble finding good tutorials that actually supplied the relevant libraries, headers etc for the code they were explaining, so it became difficult when they would expect that every new programmer knows straight away what the SDL header is for example, and where it can be acquired from.