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Yes, initializing the key during pairing would work great.

I posted my reply before the parent's edit. I don't think this is an intractable problem; my suggestion of a physical connection for pairing or even a remote pairing with a button press would work fine. My ONLY point was that hard coding a symmetric key into the keyboard/dongle pair and then using that key for all communication wouldn't be practical.
Microsoft's patch schedule was going to be 32 days later. The hard stance produced a positive outcome here; the patch was available a full month earlier than it otherwise would have been. There is a lot of history between security researchers and big vendors, where the big vendor just delays and delays and delays while the bug is running around out in the wild.

I really do hear what you're saying, and while I'm sympathetic to it, I think that it's much more likely that the Project Zero team adopted the 90-day policy specifically because of years and years of vendors playing push-the-deadline. If there was an industry history of vendors acting promptly in good faith, this wouldn't even be a thing, but the politics behind bug reporting and disclosure are really pretty mature at this point, and I really do think it's naive to just chalk it up to "Google wants to embarrass its competition and is playing dirty to do it".
I'm just about to release a TTS API into alpha.
Contact me (details in profile) if you're interested in chatting more about it and to try it out.
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You should not run all those in parallel. It's rude.

To anyone who wants to use that script: Remove the & on line 9.
I wonder what kinds of particles are re-introduced to the air between the 0.5 um size this vacuum filters and a traditional HEPA filter which excludes particles down to 0.3 um.
For a better sense of what he means, check out the video go get more detail about some of the complexities.

As a counter-point, a codebase can be well documented and yet be hard to understand if the abstractions are not meaningful to the reader. I can say this without attaching any normative judgment to the quality of the code.

If I recall correctly, Glenn found it difficult to reason about the code because many parts were tangled in complex ways. For example, subsequent processing steps often triggered previous steps to repeat in surprising ways.

To speculate a little bit, these parts of the code may be well-documented down in the weeds, but they could still feel non-intuitive in the broader context if they didn't feel consistent or non-surprising.
Luckily the DA responsible for that case was disgraced and disbarred. Looks like something similar should be in order for the current crop.
If neurosurgeons got paid the same as tree surgeons, no one would become a neurosurgeon, it's too much work, too much stress.

And obviously not a lot of neurosurgeons have IQs of 90.

Some people can do more, and get paid more.

Then again, some people bust ass all day in the rain as a linesman for the electric co while risking their lives for 60k while the cast of Big Bang Theory gets a mil an episode to sit on the couch.

C'est la vie.
> it was barely a P/E of 5 on current year earnings when YoY we were growing a triple digit percentage.

I'm kinda curious: Did you point that out as clearly as the line above? along with something to the effect of "If you think this number is close to the value we'd take, then we're wasting each other's time"?
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I find case-insensitivity (as both Mac OS X and Windows do it) user-hostile. So, there's a counter-anecdote.

But, I believe all that proves is that in many cases, "what I'm used to" is the same as "easy and intuitive". There is often no one true way to make something complex easy and intuitive, and sometimes the "easy way" is the way you're used to (but for someone used to another way, it won't be easy).

In this case, in the absence of compelling evidence that case-insensitivity is a net win for the user, the simpler implementation is probably the right one. The number of bugs over the years caused by insensitivity and Unicode mapping and such, is probably further evidence favoring simplicity.

Also, the average Mac user doesn't even know they have a command line (seriously, I can't remember ever saying to a casual Mac user, "Open terminal" and have them say anything other than, "I don't know what that is" or "I don't have that"). There's no reason a higher layer can't make case-insensitive decisions for the user (say, searching for "the clash" will find music by "The Clash"), which doesn't require the freaking filesystem to make those kinds of guesses. Having this happen at the filesystem layer has always seemed utterly mad, to me. And, having it happen at the higher layers is how Linux and UNIX software has always handled it. Somehow we muddle through with the filesystem being entirely naive about the letter "a" being sort of the same as "A" (for humans).
Read only the first couple of sections. Seemed like a pretty terrible article. Maybe there's some sort of insight hiding somewhere in there, but it's well disguised. Skip.
Your theory doesn't make any sense. If this was indeed a false flag, then why would they go through the extra effort to fake the killing of a person?
I still reject that they are better, and more that education should strive for better results. That is, if you define them as better with no argument allowed, then they are of course better. However, if you were to objectively compare them... I am unsure why they would be awarded the success. Again, higher level and/or easier to understand? Sure. Better?? By what metric?

This would be akin to declaiming that Newtonian physics is "better" than quantam, because it is easier to understand.

Also consider that TeX is still one of the more widely read source programs in existance. And there have been frighteningly few bugs. There are undoubtedly more bugs in this rewrite with "better" abstractions than there are in what is being rewritten. So it loses stability. It is slower. So it loses speed.

What, exactly, is it truly better at?

As indicated in another post, I am unsure that this really succeeded at the pedagogical goals that were intended. If anything, it almost shines as an example of how we have gone awry in teaching developers.
Nope, Musk did http://www.whps.co.za Merely an observation that early environment shapes attitudes to life, learning, etc. which can either drive out curiosity and/or ambition or amplify it. (Excluding crucial social navigation and team dynamics, hitting most all of intelligence, ambition, curiosity, confidence (and so on) to do well, but not developing one or more of those tends to become self-limiting factor/s.) Overcoming adversity (being bullied) also helps.
This is the #1 reason Windows is no longer on my kid's computers; it's too easy to install crap-ware no matter what security package you use.
No questions about what you say. But I was specifically referring to what we now call Islamic terrorism with its hate for the western world and other religions. This seems to be new and kind of a response to the conduct of the western world.
Almost the entire US has a problem doing public transit properly. They are a variety of reasons, but it mostly boils down to government policies that favor private vehicles and suburban sprawl.
> Isn't this the city's job? I actually think it's kind of creepy that Corporations are taking the role of the City. The general idea is the City collects taxes and uses those to provide services like buses.

This is a widespread problem. As conservatives, many of them wealthy, push for a reduction in government power,[1] that makes the wealthy relatively more powerful.

A similar point was raised about a park in NYC being financed by a wealthy citizen. Do citizens get an equal say in its design, location, rules, etc.? It is literally undemocratic to allocate that power to those with more money. The same applies to funding for scientific research, and more. We become more and more dependent on these people and their influence grows.

That doesn't mean all charity by the wealthy is bad or even ill-intended, it means that reducing our government's power doesn't eliminate the power, it just hands it to another group.

[1] Off-topic: Note that a certain group of conservatives (I'm not sure "Tea Party" corresponds exactly) also push to reduce the power of other competing groups, including unions, the media, "liberals", voters in poor districts, etc. They make arguments for each, but follow the money and power: It leaves business alone on the political battlefield.
Most startups suck at branding. Chubbies Shorts do not suck
An easy hack for disabling many of these additional "features" is just to overload the port by forwarding it to a non-used IP:port.

This is only really useful for the Internet side of things for standard manufacturer's firmware or if you're using WRT.

For new routers, this is standard practice for me until a WRT option becomes available. Sometimes you can't, I remember not being able to overload something on a Linksys EA6500.
It supports script tags: https://kripken.github.io/lua.vm.js/repl.html

Code that does it: https://github.com/kripken/lua.vm.js/blob/master/src/lua.js#...
Radiologist/Biomedical Engineer here. I once did a review of the physiological effects of magnetic fields as was our current understanding in the last decade. in general, things that get altered with sufficiently large magnetic fields:
- Cardiac electrical conductivity
- Muscular electrical conductivity
- Fibrin (protein necessary for clotting blood) meshes get distorted
- There is DNA genotoxicity, and mutations start to appear
- Diamagnetic effects start taking over (Most extreme demonstration I've seen so far is the levitating frogs and grasshoppers, which seem quite content afterwards, so no ill effects apparent)

Bottom line is that pretty much everything in our bodies that contains water can be affected by a sufficiently large static magnetic field. Some critical physiological processes may get disrupted way earlier than the atomic distortions cited in the article, so I believe much less than 100k Tesla would be needed to kill a person.
Expected value of a company with a 10% chance at a million dollars: $100,000

Expected value of a company with a 1% chance at a billion dollars: $10,000,000
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lua.vm.js can manipulate javascript objects. the only outstanding issue is tracking garbage (lua closures can leak into javascript).

In regards to actually doing the DOM work, craig barnes is doing great work over with lua-gumbo: https://github.com/craigbarnes/lua-gumbo
Navio does NOT weight 24g. It's weight is around ~12g.
RPi A+ with Navio = 23+10 = ~35g.
Pixhawk weights 38g.

With Navio+RPi you get a lot of stuff compared to hardware like APMMini: network connectivity (LTE, long-range WiFi), affordable 1080p camera module with H.264 encoder for FPV, a lot of processing power for advanced flight algorithms (as an example - a lot of new features of APM such as EKF are NOT available on old APM platforms) and the overall hackability, which you don't get with any microcontroller based autopilot.
I might be misunderstanding you, but I don't think any extreme is a good thing simply because being limited to an extreme means having less choice, and that is a bad thing. There are advantages to centralism, there are advantages to distributed systems and there are advantages to doing the processing locally. The best state of affairs is having all these options available to you when deciding how to architect the best system for your requirements. If a mainframe type solution is the best, do that. If running it on your PC can solve the problem, then do that. If you need a combination then do that. Personally, I think that returning to the "mainframe does it all" concept is a huge step back in terms of freedom, and therefore in terms of potential.
A company today is worth however many billions it will be worth if it succeeds, discounted by the risk that it won't succeed. That's an incredibly difficult calculation to make, but fortunately you don't have to do it if the company recently had a funding round, just use the value the other investors decided on.

So if the company raised money at $10MM and you're being offered 0.5% equity, then treat it as a $50,000 bonus that you get for being a loyal employee over the vesting period.
The delay with Raspberry Pi camera module and proper LTE\WiFi link is much less - it's around 100ms.
Because this is a 2-year pilot program. What happens when after people grow reliant on it, the city buses fall into disuse and disrepair, and then Google decides they don't want to continue it?

Public services should be provided by the government. For someone who lives in a country with a NHS, I think you would realize that.
Raising taxes is inefficient and indirect. By providing buses, Google (et al.) can quickly address a need in the community. And they don't need to use other people's money to do it.
> ...otherwise comparatively upstanding world of Silicon Valley.

Ask women what they think of this statement.

ETA: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-13/code-of-silicon-val...
> there is no way to get a generic bus pass

Sometimes, there's another private company which does sell generic bus passes. They tend to be extortionately expensive, though.
Evolving Neural Networks [pdf]
"And keep them up-to-date with each new release of Unicode"

I agree with the rest, but that is one thing you absolutely shouldn't do. Once there are disks 'out there' that were created with some idea about what case insensitivity is, your choice has been set in stone. The risk of dhanging any rule is simply too high. Somebody might start reading hat disk using the previous version of the file system.

For example, the precursor to HFS+, HFS, like HFS+, kept directories sorted by name. However, it had a filename sorting bug that the Finder had to work around (see http://dubeiko.com/development/FileSystems/HFSPLUS/tn1150.ht...)
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I was wondering if you can point to me where and how you can get information of how to extract/download audio/video files.
Oh jeez.

Ok, pretend for a moment that you're the terrible neocon type, who would stop at nothing to get France back into Washington's orbit or whatever. Which one of two options would you chose?

1. Pretend that there is some shooting, but don't shoot actual bullets. Make an elaborate show, and be sure not to screw it up - it's all recorded.

2. Pay a couple of disgruntled guys a small stack of cash to go and shoot up a journal office. Actual guys, actual rifles, actual bullets, legit videos.

Seriously. You have to assume those "neocons" are drooling idiots to believe any of this "look at the video!1!!" stuff.
Because essential public services shouldn't be reliant on the whim of a company.

I'm confused. I'm assuming that the UK uses tax money to hire private companies to provide the transit services. The public services aren't at the whim of a company, they are just provided by a company.
Each approach has it's advantages. Navio was built to serve as a Linux platform for APM which provides more processing power than microcontroller platforms - it's useful for advanced flight algorithms (for example, a lot of new features of APM asuch as EKF are not supported on older APM hardware) and the level of integration between payload apps can be much higher than on two modules with serial link.
你们可以继续downvote我。呵呵。——You guys can downvote me again. hehe.

If you speak English in a Chinese-language form, it is VERY OK and welcome, especially you are native English speakers. 注意：我只在与中国相关的threads里面说中文。Anyway, I am not good at English, and I will not speak Chinese anywhere in the form. Don't panic. :)
I've always wondered what would happen if you got trapped in the Superconducting Super Collider.

Terminator 3 Particle Accelerator Scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKFnsFFdPh8
> It seems the QuRan (like the Communist manifesto etc) provided an ideology that drove people to conquer and feel good about it.

It seems like the Bible did that, too.

I mean, have you even casually glanced at the history of the West?

> The political idea that a society should be run according to the principles of Islam is sometimes called "Islamism". A huge reason there isn't much "Christianism" today is that the New Testament was written by people who didn't have much power and so focused on peaceful proselytizing.

"Christianism" is one of the solid bases of support for the political Right in the USA. To say that there isn't much of it in the world is, well, completely misguided.

> But rather that the WRITINGS advocate for more like anarchism than a philosophy that encourages converting others by the sword.

If you view the "writings of Christianity" as the New Testament only, that might be defensible, but actual Christians generally don't, and much Christianism -- which is nowhere near as elusive as you make it out to be -- is based very strongly on particular interpretations of the Old Testament (and particular interpretations of the New Testament that make those interpretations of the Old Testament valid for Christians.)

> It had a much more exclusive character so there is no sense that Jews living in a democratic country would dream of converting that country's structure to one that follows the rules laid out in the Torah.

Yeah, I mean, its inconceivable that, for instance, a Jewish-majority democracy would, for instance, prohibit grocery stores from remaining open on Saturday's because of the importance of maintaining the Sabbath [0].

[0] http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.601972
Fair enough, I asked because I naturally write "word!" without knowing proper English syntax and thought it was a naive reflex everybody would have.
I'd be pretty disappointed in El Goog, if they weren't taking this opportunity to learn something about providing public transit service--with an eye toward making public transit better.

In transportation planning, we sometimes differentiate between "fixed route" (a.k.a. the busses and trains you're accustomed to) and other specialty forms of public transit that often serve some particular demographic in a more flexible manner. Now, think about Google's self-driving cars for a minute here. What are the big challenges? Well, it appears Google needs to have a LOT of data about the rights-of-way that they drive. New and novel driving environments are handled by way of "pull over and stop."

Could Google perchance see some value in pursuing the "fixed route transit" market? Oh my yes. It's a perfect use-case for their technology more or less as it exists today.

Further, let's think about the economics. It is a fact that labor costs are typically the greatest single cost when providing public transit in the developed world. Busses are relatively cheap compared to the drivers. See where this is going?

Transit typically doesn't manage farebox cost recovery by quite a wide margin (cars don't internalize nearly all their costs either, but that's another story). A lot--enough to have an enormous impact on policy--of transit funding in the US comes from the federal government. Transportation is the second largest appropriations package Congress passes after military, and there is typically a big fight over how much will be allocated to public transit. This tends to break down along party lines as you'd expect: godless, commie pinko scum want public transit; fascist plutocratic narcissists don't.

I can just imagine the appropriations discussions now: Google announces self-driving bus and all of a sudden Republicans have a means by which they can support public transit--provided in large part by private industry--and that hurts a big segment of organized labor in the process (bonus?). And, of course if there is an upset in Congress, selling improved public transit to democrats isn't hard either.

I like that there are good paying jobs for bus drivers currently, but I like good public transit more. So I'm pretty bullish about Google getting into this game... assuming they're getting into the game, which they should be.

Google, if you're getting into this game and looking for transportation planners to shower with money and hot lunches, this humble PhD student bicycles past your Seattle offices daily. Just sayin' ;-)
Case insensitivity is a tiny part of the problem in my view. On a case insensitive filesystem you can still have distinct directories called Document, Documents, My Documents, Documnts, etc. and really, from the user's point of view, why can't you have two directories called Documents? The entire concept of addressing things by name is counterintuitive. Mapping strings that differ only by case into the same name is a teeny band-aid on a gaping wound.
Seems I should move out from northbeach to the mission
Perhaps the buses could have a few 2-4 person private booths, to support confidential discussions?
Unfortunately, it's par for the course. There's a major problem in academia: there's too much to gain from publications of successful research ($$$, fame, citations). The result of all this data massaging is years of wasted research and millions (billions) of dollars chasing ghosts. (By the way: also in companies, but to a lesser extent)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/us-science-cancer-...

"A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer -- a high proportion of them from university labs -- are unreliable, with grim consequences for producing new medicines in the future.

During a decade as head of global cancer research at Amgen, C. Glenn Begley identified 53 "landmark" publications -- papers in top journals, from reputable labs -- for his team to reproduce. Begley sought to double-check the findings before trying to build on them for drug development. [...] Result: 47 of the 53 could not be replicated. "
But if I want more buses, I can't just give the money to the city. They'd have to make some kind of contorted tax category that only applies to me so they can take my money. That's assuming I can convince them to spend my money on the buses instead of some other project.
Next they'll need a way to split the cost among companies. Then they'll want to move the buses off of city streets so they don't conflict with vehicle traffic. They could call it "Bay Area Rapid Transit" ;-).

Seriously, though, any step toward public mass transit rather than redundant company shuttles in the Bay Area is a good thing.
Total envy that you (and the parent commenter) actually get to do this type of thing. (Meaning fly private planes or helis).
I second this. I was trying to understand the reasons and your answer helped me. It saved me a few hours. Thank you!
Governments do pilot programs as well. What happens at the end is the government decides if it wants to continue it. With a privately funded pilot program, nothing stops the city from stepping in if the private sponsor steps out and the value to the public has been demonstrated.
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The IRC server actually is what is supposed to send PING to clients which have no detected activity within a given interval. The client is supposed to respond with PONG. This is straight out of RFC 1459[1]:

The PING message is used to test the presence of an active client at
the other end of the connection. A PING message is sent at regular
intervals if no other activity detected coming from a connection. If
a connection fails to respond to a PING command within a set amount
of time, that connection is closed.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459#section-4.6.2

So it seems this client is simply sending data on a regular interval, but it is not sending correct data and will certainly not work on all servers or networks (such as networks with a smaller ping interval than 200 seconds).

I may just be an old unix beard now, but I remember when reading the RFC was standard for your home-grown clients.
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