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The jurisdictional problem isn't as big as it seems, because not 100% of the land will be returning to Maryland, only 99.99% of it. To wit, the White House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court building will still retain their status quo[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocessi...
There's a lot of horrible things happening "under his watch"

e.g http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/obama-drone-program...

When the parties change and there's some more files revealed and what not, you'll be part of the people who voted for the party that did opt for X.
Is it me or this sounds like a portrait of Steve Jobs?
patio11 should have teamed up with cperciva to work on Tarsnap years ago. They still should. They'd make a billion for sure.
Nice! I've ported it to Java, and got roughly a 2x speed increase over the version posted at http://stackoverflow.com/a/20586626/58962 (same question Mark Adler posted in).

On Java 8, I get 647MB/s on a 2,3GHz MBP (the non-optimized version was 320 MB/s). Not bad, but Matt's C version manages 1628.09 MB/s.

Update: with some optimizations and eliminating I/O in the benchmark, we now clock in at a respectable 1150 MB/s (up from 390 MB/s unoptimized).
I don't want to own a self-driving car. I want the self-driving equivalent of a taxi or Uber. Press a button on my phone, the closest one shows up, drives me where I want to go, and then hangs out nearby for the next person or goes back to the closest designated parking location.

These self-driving cars will be cheaper than even UberX/Lyft/whatever, as there is no driver to have to pay. They can be smaller than a cab, taking up much less parking room (they can park too close for their doors to open, and they don't need to including seating for a driver), which can actually be a fairly significant cost in the city, where convenient parking spaces can sell for as much as a house does elsewhere.
I presume they "can't" because it's too expensive?

How expensive is too expensive for some of the richest companies in the world?
This is a relatively interesting situation imo. And it's tragically not unique. Another example is the Keurig machines. The latest model has DRM such that you can only use officially licensed Keurig cups. Suffice to say people were displeased. A delightful video showing how to get around it has 670,000 views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0yCq1AEeY

So, here's why I think it's interesting. The companies that sell these products likely make the bulk of their profit from the consumables. That makes it economically viable to sell the machine at break even or possibly a loss. Then the money comes from the consumables. This is a pretty attractive business model both to the manufacturer and possibly even the consumer.

The downside, of course, is that competitors can swoop in and make consumables as well. So now you're selling hardware for a loss and other people are selling consumables for razor thin margins and you're screwed.

I don't think there is an obvious answer here. Some of these markets might not be viable if the hardware has to be sold for a profit. So that kinda sucks. But the DRM also treats consumers like shit, so that really sucks.

Is perhaps the issue just that it isn't clearly stated up front? Amazon sells two flavors of Kindle readers. One with ads for less money and one without ads for more ($20). Once upon a time Apple sold DRM mp3s for 99 cents and DRM free mp3s for $1.29. Would you pay an extra $50 for a DRM free kitty litter box? Or an extra $100 (33%) on a fancy coffee maker?

Here's my take away. Some products are subsidized by consumables. DRM enables that subsidy. Without DRM that product may not be viable. DRM can be minimally negative (Steam) but can also be maximum hostile (Keurig). Finding the balance is tough and we should talk more about it.
>I think there is a lot going on and we don't know anything about it.

You said it. You know, NK claims that the movie was USG propaganda. And, to the average American ear, that notion probably sounds completely nuts on its face.

But, then, there's this that we learned just a couple of weeks ago:

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/11/why-usaid-got-into-bed-w...

Not only do we not know everything that goes on, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to separate ridiculousness from truth.
> Of course, he could have meant "meritocracy" in its original, parodic, sense, in which case he's absolutely right.

I had no idea about the etymology of the word (a good explanation from the man who coined it: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment). Thanks for the insight!

I'm reading the Times Magazine profile of Mayer at Yahoo (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-whe...) right now: "Even though the actress Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog, Mayer, who habitually asked deputies where they attended college, balked at hiring her as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food. According to one executive, Mayer disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college."
but when oil price goes up, even very little, gas price follows inmediately and proportionally. At least that is the impression I get here in Spain.
I mistook it for simple loop unrolling too, and was surprised at the difference. Take a look a the "cycles per byte" - the difference is big, and I guess the linear access patterns involved mask the memory latencies very well.
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Warriors has a bright future ahead.
Your excellent point has a follow on: who exactly is responsible for deciding when or if such a retaliation is to occur? Is there any oversight? Is there any accountability? Who are the individuals involved? Which agency is involved? Is Obama fessing up or not? I am not saying that I agree or disagree with the retaliation, only that open accountability is necessary, precisely such that our collective liberty is safeguarded.

If this is not the US, then the cybersecurity apparatus of the US and other nations must surely provide more information about which entity has the power to take down an entire country's internet (even if, admittely, this is a small country that is easy to take down?). We need to know either that this is an explicit retaliatory attack (in which case, who is deciding the legitimacy and proportion of this retaliation), or if not, we need to know very clearly that our cybersecurity apparatus is aware of who did it, and if not, what are they doing to become aware of such issues in the future (with guarantees of public disclosure when this is not incompatible with national security).

Basically, we cannot have a situation where signficant swathes of the internet can be taken down with nobody knowing what's going on, and what the principles are behind any decisions made. That would be a basic affront to freedom.

Nebulous, intangible entities with the power to perpetrate or retaliate with no accountability, are extremely dangerous.

I see a significant dearth of information here, information that is in the public interest whoever is behind it.
I did my own construction (not recommended). From the Amazon reviews, I ended up buying my parents a Citikitty training kit. I think a review of their main competitor, Litter Kwitter, said that kit was a bit flimsy and could result in a heavy cat taking a bath.

I suppose there's always a chance that they'll miss during training, but neither I nor my parents had a problem. I had a fried try training three youngish kittens, and they had a couple mishaps, but I suspect that's par for the course.

Our cat will "dig" in clean toilet water, which is a little gross. Fortunately, she won't dip her toes in soiled water. I'd much rather our cat track a little toilet water than soiled litter, as at least that has the benefit of some chlorine. We have a "no mellow" policy in our house.

A recommendation: from day 1 we've rewarded our cat with the "Greenies" dental treats. As a result, she is pretty vocal about getting our attention when the toilet needs flushing, which is about twice a day (one solid, one liquid evacuation). Another benefit that we didn't anticipate, is that the vet always remarks at how clean her teeth are. So, win-win on the Greenies.
Either way, your vote is thrown away. Even if you live in a perennial swing state like Ohio, you're vanishingly unlikely to swing the election to the party that beats you with a velvet glove instead of iron knuckles. And if you don't live in one of those states, it's... even more vanishingly unlikely.

The issue with voting isn't that it influences the government one way or another: it doesn't, and pretty much any of us can get more influence by working all those hours we would otherwise think about politics and using that money to purchase connections with actual power brokers (though even that is mostly a waste).

The real issue with it is its influence on your identity. Electoral politics is a twisted parody of real politics, morphing autonomous values and communal choices into something closer to the emotions felt when watching team sports. My guy good, your guy good. Which isn't bad, in itself--it's a form of entertainment like any other. But it's not real politics.

My suggestion would be to skip voting for all federal offices and maybe even state offices, and focus on the local, if you must do electoral politics.
Maybe? More likely it's packaged up into a derivative product which can then be spread among any size of institution. There's nothing fundamental about the reinsurance market that requires massive companies; that's the genius of it.
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Which word didn't you understand?
That's the old "if you're intolerant against intolerance, you're intolerant yourself" argument. A good person is against all forms of evil, and can't be made "bad" that way.

I don't have a problem with people being killed by drones, American citizens or no, when that's the best viable way to prevent greater violence.
> the first car on the roads will just be making in town trips and will be limited to 25mph

I think the rest of us are going to start loathing these timidly-driving things: "Oh f%#k! I'm stuck behind a self-driving car again, now I'll be late for my meeting."
On the topic of how representations relate to programming... if you have ever tried to express some tricky math in code you might have had a sense that it would be more clear if it were written out on paper with the proper notation. That's because mathematicians have streamlined their reasoning by deciding one day, well, I use the sum function a lot, let's call it Σ. Or I'd like to be able to recognize integrals from a mile away so let's call it ∫. Not to mention those symbols come along with a spatial organization: the lower limit of integration goes below, the upper limit goes on top.

Programmers can't easily streamline like this. Maybe there are multiple forces locking us in: the keyboard, text editor, and programming language. Sure, maybe the optimal way to write code is with a string of ascii characters arranged left to right top to bottom but I doubt it. So even in the visual-symbolic space there is unexplored potential.

I'm glad someone is out there tackling these assumptions and much more, I should keep an eye on his work.

On an unrelated note, his website is entertaining: http://worrydream.com/
Information is leverage in any negotiation.

Patrick basically has all his cards on the table, and can't give much more than that
Late December 2000, 2nd and Folsom in SF was completely full of BizDev types talking into their cell phones.

Around April 2001, pink slip parties were still happening, but people were getting nervous. VC funding had completely shut off, I think.

Late December 2001, 2nd and Folsom -- tumbleweeds and homeless people.

Recruiters went from being suckups to being sorta mean. They never liked us in the first place. Interviews became brutal. The best way to survive was learning a little business and knowing the difference between a cost and a revenue center.
> Unless some difference is proven to be biological

Many differences have been proven to be biological.

> unless something is proven to be impossible

But what is your goal? Is your goal just for that number? What if parity is not better? What if the problem of parity is that there is something intrinsic in women that they're just not stupid enough to work 80 hours a week for 3-5 years to have a chance at a few million dollar exit? What if women just tend to not have the same values as men do during the time when their career priorities are most important?

It's much more important that a woman can become a CEO if she has the skills and desire than that 50% of CEOs are women.

> equal representation for all groups in the seats of power

I think you start to tread into different territory here. While I don't believe that half of the women on the board of a company need necessarily be women, I do believe that half(ish) of the women on any sort of government body should be women.
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"but you know during the job they were Googling answers to the problems"

LOL, what an asshole.
We need a tax holiday. Everyone should refuse to pay taxes unless we are actually represented.
Note. Shipping notice does not actually imply actually shipping, as I just discovered from their customer service agent. It just means they've created a shipping label for you and some time in the future (exactly when he didn't know) it will be used to ship you your coin.
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The Cowboy Ribeye is 22 ounces with bone-in. And some math:

1 gram = 4 calories
1 oz = 28.35 grams
-----------------
22 * 28.35 * 4 = 2495 calories (assuming pure protein)

That of course assumes that the whole thing is pure protein, when it obviously has fat and bone in it. So at 1650 calories, the steak would have to about 2/3 protein. This matches up with my experience at Ruth's Chris. On top of that, is the delicious butter they serve everything in, which is additional calories.

So yeah, 1650 seems completely reasonable for the Cowboy Ribeye.
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You're erroneously comparing actual on-the-books illegal crime with crimes against belief systems. Hypothetically if enabling abortion or publicizing documents were illegal the way torture is, then those people ought to be jailed, too, if the law means anything. What shouldn't matter is someone's occupation or status. This should be obvious.
There's no birther "controversy". There's a tiny number of internet wackos that have been aggrandized in left leaning media such that Democrats think every Republican believes Obama was born in Kenya.

You believe this kind of nonsense because the Democrats and their media organs want you to believe it.
In both cases, the decrease you quote is about sqrt(10). It does taper off when you do a 24 character password (which is about the range of what I would choose), but it's still 30%; 70% of a large number is a large number. Typical users are not so technical as to use a 24 character password and therefore, in an unsalted leak, after the rainbow tables stage, it makes it 30% easier to brute-force them (going by your numbers).
Such pressures may have existed in the late 30's, but I don't see how there could have been any pressure to "pull production" of Casablanca for the sake of not offending Nazi germany given that its production was well after the US had entered the war. As far as I can tell Warner Brothers had only first heard of the script by January 1942.
I think Processing (https://processing.org/) is a great choice for first time programmers.
Relocating your family to an alternate tax farm wouldn't accomplish much. The social contract has been severed.

In the USCIA, it's no longer possible to engage with your local community without being cognizant of government spies. After all that happened with the Occupy movement, if the criminals who oversaw these sadistic acts of torture aren't brought to justice, and it instead comes down to grassroots activism, I for one wouldn't count on justice.

And here's to hoping that I can at least continue to speak frankly on the internet. I certainly foresee my use of Tor creating problems for me down the road. It's why I'm such a big fan of Bitcoin, because that's the only viable way I'm aware of to defund these psychopaths.
> That's a terrible way of thinking about it. Unless some difference is proven to be biological, we should certainly assume it is not.

So unless I can scientifically prove that "men are better than women at American football" I should assume that talent is equally distributed? Your statement is very politically correct but it seems to me that your null hypothesis was selected due to ideology. The problem I have with it is that if you are incorrect, your statement is essentially unfalsifiable.
I thought this was quite a good commentary on it: http://theoatmeal.com/blog/google_self_driving_car
The UI Designer role described in this article should ideally be able to cover everything in the UI Developer role. The JavaScript Developer role should also be able to cover that role. I agree with the rest of the whittling down.

However, saying that someone who specializes in JavaScript is essentially the same as a back-end developer is inaccurate. The types of problems an experienced JavaScript developer deals with on a regular basis are fundamentally different than those that a back-end only developer deals with (not trying to imply that there isn't overlap).
so we'll use our "driver's cars" on scenic roads and racetracks. I don't think many people enjoy driving through heavy city traffic.
Geography, for a start. Federal buildings quite widespread, not just concentrated around the mall.

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/22431
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Do you have a problem with people being tortured, American citizens or no, when that's the best viable way to prevent greater violence?
This is insane. What's next, DRM in cats?
Do you honestly shop at only places w/ NFC readers? Do you not eat at restaurants? Do you not take cash out at ATMs? I mean - sure Apple Pay is slicker and maybe more secure - but I can not imagine anyone now ditching plastic to go 100% Apple Pay, Google Wallet, whatever.

I like it when internet folk comment about current technology as legacy because some tiny fraction of its market now uses something new and shiny.
What's with the side-view mirrors?
A Ruby implementation called Vines [0] [1] might be interesting to try out.

[0] http://www.getvines.org/
[1] https://github.com/negativecode/vines
"It is the Marxists that want you to believe the psychopath claim, in their desire to stereotype capitalism as blind greed."

Oh but they have more then abundant evidence that capitalism was brought into being by war an conquest, not because it's some law of nature.

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/jferguson-1039684-c...

Albert einstein:

"The conquering peoples established themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent institution and created a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

But historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what Thorstein Veblen called “the predatory phase” of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future."

http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
The ship itself returning would be relatively trivial as long as it didn't need to degravitate from Mars.
Further, his subsequent posts to the mailing list[1] are missing the canary entirely, but everything has been addressed except for:

> 3. The DC has confirmed via Twitter that the servers were not
"accessed". Having been raided in the past I know indeed they can be
forced under Dutch law not to inform clients of raids, but I don't
feel this may be the case. With that being said, a chassis intrusion
indicator still must be addressed and I cannot find it in the logs
anymore. The DC company are not the people who I directly interact
with however so I am still awaiting a direct response form those we
host the server with.

Either way, it's not a direct raid or seizure, if anything a backdoor installed by someone at the DC, but honestly at this point you have to accept the possibility and either accept/balance/mitigate the risk or get new hardware.

[1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-Decembe...
From a technology perspective as well, autonomous operations on designated sections of highways seems much more practical and nearer-term than visions of robo-Uber. I suspect a lot of the enthusiasm comes from urbanites who only marginally need a car today. And the capability gap between today's assistive technologies or even truly autonomous highway operations and being able to just virtually hail a robotic cab in a city seems as if it's a lot bigger than a lot of people appreciate. I suspect this has been the source of much of the tension between the auto makers and Google. I'm all for having a vision of what's ultimately probably possible but there would seem to be pretty compelling interim steps that seem much more achievable in interesting time horizons. They're probably not very interesting is you just drive around cities or congested suburbia but they look pretty appealing if you do any amount of longer distance driving.
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Processing is fantastic, and it was easy to segue from processing to Eclipse in just a few lessons (it's about 20 lines of code)
Does anyone honestly believe that the current administration which has: 1) doubled down on the Bush admins attack on the Fourth Amendment; 2) attacked the 1st Amendment directly (something even Bush/Ashcroft didn't do..) and 3) run what is an arguably similar program in its moral and ethical ambiguity(Drone strikes) to the interrogation techniques; would even think about going after the previous administration!?!? Give me a break, that's beyond laughable.

This piece by the Times is about what you'd expect from an organization that has lost its grip on reality. What's worse is that people actually pay attention to the Times at this point. Sadly, what we lack in this country is an honest journalistic broker that can objectively communicate about the political realities we have in front of us and our shortcomings as a nation and an electorate.

Here's the thing, all of us that vote (and those that don't), are responsible for the mess in D.C.. The people that inhabit the beltway are simply taking advantage of our apathy and incompetence as an electorate..nothing more, nothing less...it's up to us, as the electorate, to purge our government of the latent corruption and decay that has come to permeate that town. Until we take up that charge in a meaningful way, we can't even have a discussion about topics such as this, it's just a waste of time..
I was wondering are there any companies at all that follow such differentiation between the job offerings?

I consider myself "Front-end developer". Actually I've been working and marketing what I"m doing with those 2-3 words for the last 10 years and I had been hired on a couple of jobs using this as a s a job title.

I don't think I'm a designer, though.