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Except you almost never want to pull fiber when you can help it (fiber is far more fragile than copper). In the scenario you describe, instead of burying a conduit, you would just bury a jacketed fiber bundle containing hundreds of fiber threads, even if you only need a couple dozen right now. This is where the term "dark fiber" comes from. Also, in this scenario, if a fiber cable "goes bad", you can just swap out another, unused cable.

Regardless, the architecture you propose would be incredibly expensive for ISPs to implement on any large scale - so much so that it would create significant barriers to entry for any new entrant, and a big incentive for horizontal consolidation. Ideally, the utility ISP would provide route tunneling from a specific port on their demarc switch representing a home to a specific provider at a NOC at the edge of their network. This does create some bottlenecks, but it's better than having 5 ISPs have to put 1,000 switches all over a city just to cover all the homes. Coverage is the entire problem that causes a monopolistic situation - so let the shared service provider worry about coverage.

Even still, I'm not sure of the value that ISPs provide in such a scenario. It seems like a commoditized service with very little in the way of competitive advantage - which means that advertising dollars will be the biggest differentiator (similar to how it is today).
1:06 EST here and it hasn't started. "Please wait for the livestream to begin"
I would be curious to see what portion of Adafruit and Sparkfun customers are not located in Silicon Valley. Probably very low. A retail location might be sustainable there, but doubtful in exurbs of third-rate flyover states (where until recently, RadioShacks were still pretty easy to find.) Nerds are present but with very low density in large swaths of the country.
The C# function is global, so the compiled Javascript function is global. Feels to me like the most correct compilation of the C# code.

(Consider: the C# code has no main function, so, if we hid the GetBestMove definition from the rest of the webpage, it would never get called. The optimal Javascript compilation would be an empty string, and that's clearly not valuable.)
The best introduction to awk is its man page. It is such a concise language that you can find pretty much everything you want to learn about it in just a few pages.
I agree with about when you say that businesses should not ignore the fact that adblock is wildy used when making decisions.

Imagine now that if a working drm solution existed for films, it would be ok to download the unprotected ones for free? Surely a technical solution is way of making a business profitable, but not an argument to justify a bad behavior.

And yes, even if moral is irrelevant to businesses, it is still something worth considering as individuals.
> In other words, how long before people get tired of clickbaits?

Somewhat facetiously, "is clickbait more like banner ads, or more like porn?" Is it useless, or is it something people actually want sometimes? Once people realized that flashing "punch-the-monkey" gifs never led anywhere useful, they quickly stopped clicking. However, porn is something people actually want, and it just needs to be "good enough," not "the very best porn on the internet."

While clickbait is low-quality content, it's still useful to someone looking for a 10-minute distraction while on the bus or at lunch. Similarly, Demand Media's content farms are extremely low quality, but might be good enough if I'm just searching for how to brine a turkey or something. Like soap operas and 24-hour "news," I think clickbait serves a real need, and isn't going anywhere.
For one thing, there's simply the utility of other bases in programming although I imagine this utility is less widespread than when a greater percentage of programmers were working at lower levels.

More broadly, I gather we're having another iteration of attempting to teach mathematical principles rather than rote calculation. Or, to put it cynically in the words of Tom Lehrer speaking about New Math: "The important thing is to understand what you're doing, not to get the right answer." Personally, I'm somewhat torn and it definitely depends on the individual.
I was lucky enough to go to a private school where Latin/Logic/Rhetoric/Greek were taught as core subjects and I've also found Latin incredibly helpful in my life. I found learning French and Spanish to be quite easy and reading medical documentation comes fairly intuitively. For those of European descent (at least a large chunk of what we call Europe today), Latin is an incredibly important part of our culture and history and helps link us with an incredibly rich past. I would say for pleasure and knowledge, study any language that saw such developments in medical practice, art and naval/military sciences. I'd assume that Sino-Tibetan language groups have a similarly rich history and learning one of those languages would be of equal benefit.
Personally Latin helped me with English mostly because my Latin classes were the only place I ever got any formal instruction in English grammar.
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A share gets you entry and a vote at the general assembly which is known for its generous Apéro. While they do not have a dress code (you can appear with a Hoodie) Jean Studer is French speaking so a lot of the assembly will be in French.
Ember's been focused around ES6 for a while now; the more frameworks that make the shift instead of stagnating or needlessly diverging, the merrier.
Regarding maps and geographical exploration, I agree with you that should be at lower priority. I think start from events happening now such as news is a much better and more efficient way to foster the positive feedback loop. When the timeline module is more polished and with more resources, it could be a good time to explore the module for map layer. Eventually, combining both layers to have a tool that I dream of. I'm just someone interested in this because of how powerful I think it could be. At this moment, I don't have enough skills to bring it to life. Nice work.
C# / .Net will have the same issue, but when they developed native compilation for windows phone apps they added a concept of a runtime definition file that lets you control how much needs to be retained for reflection: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn600639%28v=vs.110%...

The native compilation technology is moving over to normal .Net and I would imagine the runtime definition file could be used for javascript transpiling tree-shaking as well.
I use awk often, but rarely use sed, so I think they don't need to be always together.
Odd name. First thing I thought of was Tom Hanks diagnosis in the movie Joe vs the Volcano.
There's a similar market to connect students with tutors, e.g. "I'm stuck on this physics homework problem, can you help me right now?"

Examples:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/12/15/quickhelp...

http://www.astutetutoring.com/
Well it seems at some point the HHVM guys isolate themselves from distractions.

http://www.wired.com/2013/06/facebook-hhvm-saga/all/
Missing a question - Did something like Facebook exist to take inspiration from?

If so - Yes, and I am - not for the general public but for a small niche, and not an exact replica. The idea of groups and walls comes from FB, but nothing more. In fact, inspiration comes from Twitter, FB and G+ combined.

And I'm doing it with AngularJS, firebase.com, cloudinary.com and some AWS services such as Elastic Transcoder and S3.
Congrats Kenton and all involved, and best of luck with the business model. Financial success is important for decentralization tech to make progress. I hope enterprises take interest.
How's the Internet connectivity? Is satellite the only option?
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How soon until Amazon buys the entire chain in order to get a distribution presence across the country?
Disclaimer: I have yet to do a big wall climb, but I've done a fair few multi-pitch single day routes, and I know people who have done big wall climbs.

Typically it's assumed that "big wall" means you spend at least one night sleeping on the wall, and therefore the logistics change, as you rightly wondered. You have to have extra gear to set anchors for your port-a-ledge (for sleeping), and usually extra ropes for your haul-bag (full of gear such as port-a-ledges, food, water, etc). The haul-bag is necessary because you will very quickly tire if you had to carry everything needed for the entire trip while climbing. Once you get to a safe position between pitches, you can haul the haul bag up.

For waste management, a typical solution is a 3-4ft, 4in diameter PVC tube capped at one end and modified to be able to be clipped into an anchor, and you pack out everything, for the same reason they require you to pack out everything on the Whitney trail: it's just rude to dump that stuff on the route, and there are so many people there that it would turn into the equivalent of a vertical Victorian street (ie, covered in feces).

I've not followed this particular ascent very closely, but I assume it went along the same lines, just with more gear and a bigger support network (much like sherpas for Himalayan mountaineering or marathon support crews).
The existence of hypothetical counter examples to ethical life lessons does not invalidate those lessons. Ethics aren't the means to an end, they are the practice of respecting people and treating them with dignity. Insofar as teaching ethics is even barely relevant to a discussion about teaching programming to children, the value of women beyond their physical attributes is even less so and suggests you're trying to shoehorn an agenda into the discussion.

The examples I gave are entirely relevant, regardless of whether new episodes are being produced or even re-run. They exemplify the purpose, and clearly and undeniably represent the goal of teaching kindness (and more) to children, regardless of the existence or even abundance of examples to the contrary.

There may be a lot of noise in that market, but that doesn't mean there aren't people out there already putting a great deal of effort into doing the right thing.
Yes, if tanking your own currency, probably bringing down the economy and starting a panic, counts as convenient.
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You're right, we aren't talking about page views or CRUD, but it can happen in a B2B application.

I ended up working for a startup like that, so this was a real anecdotal example. Our stuff was built to run on the JVM and we managed to get away with a variable number of instances between 15 and 30 (at the time we used c1.medium, which are now deprecated) - AWS's ELB is great in such a scenario as it can be configured to bring up new instances in case of traffic spikes, or kill them in case they were unused. So for us, AWS was saving us money, however that's because we were very efficient.

My opinion is that if you're expecting your startup to grow soon (and I'm not talking about wishful thinking, but about requirements that have to happen for survival - i.e. you either get the desired contracts or you don't), then you have to prepare for it.
Hmm.. Wonder if this could breathe life into a Silverlight application that needs a way forward..
Both iOS and Android now have pretty good accessibility features for the blind. I think iOS is still slightly ahead though. Basically the phone reads out the button or action when you put your finger over it and you have to double tap to click. When you go to a new screen, it reads out the contents.

You can try it yourself if you have an iOS or Android phone by enabling the feature. But I've met blind people who use their touch screen smart phones every day.
The idea is that the mugger is in a rush. They don't know if you really have nothing or whether you're lying. They might rough you up to get you to admit you have money. And once that happens, if you react defensively, they might get more violent.

The other possibility is that they might ask for your whole wallet/phone, etc. Whereas if you hand over some money they'll often take it and go. At least this is what Brazilians who had been mugged told me happens. Some carried a dummy phone to hand over as well.
This is more like a 'reverse hacker', instead of a brilliant hacker trying to get into a system it is a brilliant hacker trying to get out of a system, and in this case the hacker is likely vastly more brilliant than the defenders. The same rules apply: the hacker has to succeed only once, the 'jailers' have to succeed all the times. Predicted long term outcome: escape.
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Add me to the list thinking this looks a bit pricey, though I do understand the value, and am usually one to value my time pretty highly.

I think my main reservation is the monthly plans, perhaps because I'm not your target market and really don't put reports together that often. (though on another note, I do put bids / proposals together quite often, so maybe that's another angle)

In any case, I think having a plan that is pay-per-use (no monthly, $50 a report) would make me consider this next time I have a document to put together. I'm probably a different class of customer than your demographic though.

In any case, neat product, congrats on the launch!
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> Even for the NSA the potential of a backdoor is a problem, because every division has to trust the person that has actually generated the points. And as the Dual_EC_DRBG was used by the DoD, this person potentially has the keys to some very sensitive parts of the kingdom.

While this is generally true, it is possible for a person or organization to remove the backdoor by generating their own point and/or by reducing the number of bits generated from curve points at each RNG step (which NIST had pushed for an insecure number of).

I can't claim to know for sure, but it would be my guess that the implementations used at the Federal Reserve, the DoD and other highly sensitive areas of government that use public algorithms highly vetted to remove known implementation problems and weak parameterizations.
The idea of carrying cash to hand over if you get mugged being a safety precaution is funny to me. I never really thought about it that way. I always thought of not carrying cash as a way to lessen the risk of getting mugged, or at least lessen the loss if you were to get mugged (I'm an American).
I'm curious if you have any "team rooms" with private rooms directly off of them -- such that the team can have a collaborative space and heads-down coding space.
The "basic principles" of programming are meaningless unless you define concrete paradigms - concatenative, array, functional, object-oriented and so on. I suppose you could talk about data types, data structures, operators, variables and so on, but I do not see how this knowledge will make one "more able" in a digital world. It can certainly impart a false feeling of knowing, however.

Actually, writing some ALGOL (or even languages detached from the von Neumann and imperative spheres) to see what it's like will ultimately teach you almost nothing, due to real world computation and software development being remarkably complex and multifaceted, involving tons of abstractions that require plenty of study to grasp.

I'd wager teaching people to use a free Unix-like would be much more useful than simply "coding" - which is too broad to have a strict methodology that can be used to teach it. And then expecting the public education system to do it properly is laughable.
I'm hoping to pick up clojure this year. If nothing else just to have a new way of thinking about code - both from a functional perspective and a lisp perspective. I seem to find a lot of these articles - the only bad press i've seen about clojure is from other lisp'rs that think clojure isn't good enough.

I do think it is interesting though that so many people love to extoll the virtues of immutability and yet have such a hard time putting those virtues into words.
To be clear, I don't think this kind of thing is common. But it's also not common to see children walking alone in America, at least in the parts I've been to.

It's the latter that's the problem. The former is merely a symptom of the latter, whether or not it is common.
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It's Jim Collins, IIRC, not Colin.

Interesting, I had read the book a while ago, but don't remember the hedgehog concept from it. Forgot, maybe. But I do remember the same concept from another book I read, maybe by Adrian Slywotzky, I think it was The Art of Profitability. Found it good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Slywotzky
The perception is that CPS workers are egomaniacs that think they can't be wrong and many appear power hungry.

The sad part is for ever time CPS "sign and agree or we'll make your life hell and take your children" they end up screwing up and failing a child in real need.

Their mentality is similar to that perceived of police forces... "you might beat the rap but you can't beat the ride... now comply!" (regardless of whether they are in the right or not)

ADD: It would seem that CPS focuses on making hell for parents who challenge them instead of focusing on protecting children. They'll invest more time and energy in showing people "who's the boss" than just using some common sense and intelligent passive monitoring. Google "CPS failed"
I suspect a bit of sock-puppetry on this thread. The demo PDF is nice looking, but there are many more ways to generate PDF from Markdown, via LaTeX or HTML. Most people willing to use Markdown instead of Word, Pages, etc. would know how to use tools like pandoc, I assume.
This advice is very much appreciated. I'll help spread it. Thanks!
I think the proportion is high. I know that a couple dozen students in my rural southern town will need electronics supplies in the next few weeks as they do at the beginning of each semester.
Intelligent doesn't imply dangerous. It doesn't imply _anything_ so long as it is underspecified. That is the core problem: what do we actually want, and how do we know it exists?

We want something that thinks enough like a human to understand and appreciate our goals, but enough different from a human to not suffer our faults. And in asking for this, we already suppose the existence of an AI that fundamentally disagrees with how humans make decisions.

This is the 'better morality' problem. If I say "I'm more moral than you", I have to do so by showing that _your_ morality is contradictory with _your _ actions; that you are a hypocrite. Otherwise, we will disagree on some course of action, and you will have no reason to believe your decisions are incorrect except by _assuming_ that I am more moral, which is what we are trying to establish.

So we really want a computer that can point out our errors and suggest corrections. This is one (vague) foundation for artificial intelligence that doesn't easily permit 'evil geniuses' since, so long as this is what the computer is doing, it cannot be said to be dangerous.

Overall, I find AI discussion to be incredibly primitive and naive. It's practically a religious debate except among a very very few. Most people are not very creative about addressing these kinds of issues, and it's depressing that people are tied up in so thoroughly in bad terminology and non-issues.
Programmers refusing to move to management is not unreasonable. I like being a developer. It's what I studied in school and it's the job I applied for.
Winchester primarily sells to the upmarket sector these days: rather than "everyman" rifles, they sell to nostalgic or well-off collectors and hunters who want to have high-quality polished walnut stocks, beautiful blueing of the metal, and even engravings on some models.

Somewhat like how muscle cars from the 60s have in some cases appreciated due to baby boomers.

For contrast, Marlin sells a rifle functionally similar to the one discovered, also of vintage design (1894), for $729: http://www.galleryofguns.com/genie/default.aspx?item=1894
This looks interesting - is there a gallery where you can see the reports created? Or are you only limited to the demo report?
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Good question. I've been working with awk for several years now, and here's how I feel about it.

AWK is old. 1977 old. Later versions that appeared (nawk and gawk are the most common) helped make it a smoother language, but it's still a pain. There are definite features you will be missing in an awk script:

- Any useful data structure slightly more complex than associative arrays. Try multi dimensional arrays, it's actually fun to do. Once.

- Any useful programming construct to help manage with complexity of scripts longer than a few hundred lines. No classes, no variable scoping, no namespaces in general. Not to mention an extremely permissive compiler.

- Any easy way to deal with the environment (other than text). Try sending http requests in awk, it can be a pain.

In 2015, if you need to write a script you should almost always prefer python/ruby over awk.

Now if you're asking whether you should learn awk? It comes in handy. There are a lot of awk scripts in the wild, and you may need to read them or edit them one day. Also, awk has a fun way of parsing input, which makes for very enjoyable one liners. Learning awk (and some complementary utilities like sed or find) turned me into a "oh, it can be done in a quick one-liner" kind of guy. Definitely recommended.
Related: bathrooms tend to be all tile without much ambient cover noise, which just amplifies the sounds from the next stall. A big, noisy fan would solve a lot of the problem.
Different country and different times but at 10 I walked to and from school alone, probably also before that age, can't remember. It would have been odd to go there with a parent, are you a mummy's boy? Furthermore everybody did it, no danger at all with the exception of one road crossing. One or two years later I started walking to that very same school with my younger brother before going to my new one. They started at the same time but luckily they were only a couple of blocks apart so I could manage. I sympathize for those kids and their parents and I'm worried seeing the same things happening here. Luckily no police involved, only apprehensive and omnipresent parents.
Ohh how I wish we had that further north. Or that we could get logan city council to see the benefit of UTOPIA
Thanks! The per document pricing is an interesting angle. I'll definitely give it some thought.
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My apologies. I'm usually more composed than that, but sometimes one encounters this level of malice and simply snaps.
1:15 ET and not started. "Please wait for the lifestream to begin"
Probably the place to start is with an offshore attorney on Grand Cayman that specializes in this type of setup.
Presumably pirates favor arrrr-C4 or arrrr-SA (both of them invented by Ronald Rivest.)
Im with King, have you ever seen how the Big 4 accounting firms treat their employees? The TL;DR is they pack em in as tight as they can.

http://www.examiner.com/article/pwc-deloitte-e-y-and-kpmg-bi...
That's ok, I am not particularly invested in it either. You have a good point, I just think you didn't express it as solidly as you could have.