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I have a comment more on the presentation than the content. I actually really enjoyed the "script format" type presentation more than I thought I would when I first staerted reading it. Having the article be a conversation between two (and more) people helped to explain various aspects of the topic (just as a conversation would normally digress), without getting "single speaker fatigue" as I often get when listening to a traditional lecture. Instead each character had their own voice and personality. The incidental details also helped me picture the scene as if it really were a movie, and brought the content to life in a way simply reading a standard article description would not.

I think this could also be interesting to see in an actually filmed format, and could be applicable to more topics than just security/cryptography. Maybe instead of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" we could have "Computer Scientists in Cars Getting Coffee".

Right now it seems like most of the video content about this field is in either the single lecturer/presenter format, the interview format, or the unscripted Q&A panel format, but I have not seen many (or even any) multicharacter scripted pieces, as the original article presented. It seems like there is room to innovate in this space. Your "characters" could each have different concerns, and their contribution to the topic discussion would be scripted explain the topic in terms of their "personality" (the performance junky, the "paranoid" security person, etc). I'm just talking off the top of my head here, so I'm sure there are some more interesting ways to run with this concept.

If anyone has actually done something like this, I would appreciate if someone could reply with link or some more information about that project. If not I think it could be a project worth pursuing.
You can get several interesting jobs that are not just doing CSS.

As a quant, you can be doing ML to predict the stock market or hard core network coding to make placing orders faster.

In a data scientist job you'd be doing data mining to gather insights about whatever area your company works in.

At a company like Google or MS, you could be developing/implementing interesting algos for search, ad targeting, etc.

This is not even to mention Google/FB research, and even more so, MSR where you could be doing even more researchy stuff.

Now it's possible that the above jobs are much scarcer than the support function jobs but I mean most of the world does mundane jobs and earns way less than you. A PhD gives a much higher chance of getting a less mundane job.
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Those dollars do vary, and yes a movie company will absolutely compete with vodka and cake.

But there aren't the billions of dollars out there claimed as losses.

And yes, fixed maximum, though there are a lot of options, so people do hit that maximum fairly often.

A quick look through the majority of my peers shows this. They make trade-offs each month. The ones who are better off can flex their entertainment budget considerably. Those who are not, center in on a fairly modest amount, and when it's spent, it's spent. They do other things.

I agree with you about it being equally wrong. It's not zero lost sales, and it's not all lost sales.

However, one must also factor in the network effects of sharing. Mindshare is worth something, and those who have it sell more, and getting it happens through sharing and piracy as much as it does other efforts.

And the opportunity to sell continues to exist despite the piracy too. A few are out there working on that premise.
Understood. His main point is that no cloud provider should ever have any downtime which is idiotic and no reputable company would ever promise zero downtime.
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I think Japan has started to learn from the US a lot, rail lines have become pretty expensive (recent example being the Tokyo Oedo subway line costing about $300 million per kilometer).

At least things actually get built though. It's very depressing to see the length of infrastructure projects (decades even in Europe), but maybe it's always been like this...
I have read more than once that the death of Clay was largely responsible for the end of the Whig equilibrium, or if you prefer, the death of the Whigs altogether. With the Republicans; Lincoln and ...

The strangest thing about Calhoun is that he is still considered a significant theorist. He is so very alien to how we might apprehend such a man today.
Sounds like a great idea. You should keep working on it. These kinds of resources are very valuable.
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Science is a very stochastic process though. Yes, not a lot of research is eventually useful but that's because chance can play a huge role. If the success rate is 1%, then investing less will not necessarily increase the success rate. It will decrease the absolute rate of discovery.
For a long time only 32 bit archs were supported for iOS, but just yesterday a PR landed with preliminary support of 64 bit archs. As Rust uses LLVM for codegen, it means there might be a couple of minor glitches, but overall it should be stable.

Considering that in February Apple will deny apps which do not support arm64 it is just in time :-)

So I'd say that iOS is almost first-class citizen - the only drawback here is that it is not in build bots and therefore `master` can be broken sometimes, in this case you can check https://github.com/vhbit/rust which may lag a bit but is always buildable for iOS.
Aside from the fact that someone has to lead the arrangement (it can be done by consensus or pre set as well) that a conductor was needed simply because of this distance between the players. 40ft gives a delay of about 40ms, which is a lot in music. Add in the echoes and reverberations and the link between the musicians gets very loose. Musicians can get used to playing with the various delays inherent in sound propagation through various mediums, but need to practice. Most of the players in orchestra are not hearing anything like what the audience hears, so having someone front and center is essential to pulling it all together.
Great book inspiration you got there. Although inverse trigonometric functions are never really my thing.
From the capitalization (and the fact that this is HN), I assumed this was a post about the Go language. Whoops.
Eh, with the new oprhan/impl rules associated and uh... not... associated(...?) types have developed quite a schism.
I think lids do three things: they cut down on noise, they reclaim some open space, and they piece back together the neighborhoods that get cut in half by big freeway projects. The Mercer Island lids may not do much for noise, but they do the last two of those things nicely. I think that last item, putting broken neighborhoods back together again, is really important and it can be accomplished pretty well even by fragmentary lids.
Or at least working for people in highly-paying locations. Often you don't need to be there yourself.
It has never, in my experience, been worth traveling for pleasure to countries where speech is not protected.

It is, of course, always worth traveling to places that need help, but lots of us prefer not to waive civil rights unless there's a good cause.
when in school, Office is $25 dollars. Virtually every teaching assistant wants a word document and thats it. they don't want to give a list acceptable formats, they want it standardized.
You could, for those customers, give the software away for free but charge for each support request?

This cannibalizes the primary value you're creating and you're going to get people arguing about every single support request.

If a customer thinks they can get professional work done for $2 an hour you say "Interesting. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors." and write them out of your life.
Havent they figured this out already? I personally find the game boring but I think I'd be more interested with your findings on JavaScript
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Ha! interesting thought. Our managers usually conduct daily stand up meetings and they dont miss a day. So does that mean they are bad managers?
There are plenty of analogues to the consumer world so I don't think there is any naivete to be taken advantage of. Cell phone contracts have pretty strict cancellation terms and I wouldn't expect "I'm moving to where you don't provide service" to have much more weight than "I don't want to have cell phone service anymore". I've had to eat the remaining cost on a gym membership contract when I moved away.
I never really got to notice this until you pointed it out. Thanks.
Problem is how effective are they? Drones are still driven by computers and they can still be hacked.
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That's rather ironic. Didn't they realize they were as guilty as those they were hounding at?
I think it's a matter of speed of light vs. speed of sound. Everyone takes their mental clock signal from being able to see the conductor. The conductor, at the same time, is positioned so that what s/he hear is close to what the audience will hear, which is very different than what each musician will hear.

At minimum, the conductor is a clock and a feedback mechanism.
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In some ways, it's a tried and true concept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dialogues_of_Plato
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Thanks, that's good information
I haven't made my own list of resolutions yet. I'm not really a fan so instead I come up with a to-do list. But this is a good list to start with.
It doesnt look like flappy bird to me. It looks more flabby to me.
most of the stuff; there are some notes when stuff is outdated
US-East is a region made of multiple availability zones. Not all of those zones went down (none of my stuff was offline in 3 of the AZ's, for example).
I think another part of the problem is that so many people think that you need an ORM to use a relational database. That often prevents them from using advanced functionality.
Makes sense. At that point it's probably easier to find another part of the software stack to attack instead of the secrets itself. E.g. instead of getting the keys to the kingdom, just exploit a weakness in some signing software. Reminds me of that Microsoft certificate signing service for remote desktop (or something like that) for the feds (okay, maybe not but still...) that ended up generating certificates that would pass Windows Update checks for from-Microsoft validity. Google reminds me it was called "Flame". Ah, here it is: http://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-unauthorized-certifica... And it was revealed roughly a year before we learned about PRISM and such.
What is the go to use case for a document database?

Things like ElasticSearch (search database), Neo4j (graph database), and Redis (key/value store) seemed to be used along-side a traditional RDBMS, and have specific use cases that make them superior than trying to shoe-horn the functionality into a traditional RDBMS.
Yup - it's also similar to how great developers don't debug or code by braille (did that work? nope. How about this? Nope. Ok lemme try this...) but rather will sit and think through a problem.

#3 is where a lot of tension can arise during code reviews. Some people, usually those who aren't familiar with the process, will wonder why you are taking so long to review the code or why you are asking questions that are 'out of scope'.

I find that larger organizations are often more competent at code reviews. In the startup world #3 is a rare, rare thing.
I think the AWS Cloud HSM is dedicated, but not sure. They look to be about the same.
If you don't need FIPS, AWS also has the new KMS service which is way cheaper than Cloud HSM.
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I think this could also be interesting to see in an actually filmed format, and could be applicable to more topics than just security/cryptography. Maybe instead of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" we could have "Computer Scientists in Cars Getting Coffee".

Oh my gosh, this sounds like so much fun! Someone please make this happen. Bonus points if you manage to work in an old-timey silent film scene, complete with plinky piano and over-dramatic reactions.
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What about Stanford isn't a marketing gimmick? I recall signs along 101 saying something meant to be condescending like you too could get a degree from Stanford, if you paid to do an n-years master of whatever. Sounded vacuous.
There are orchestras that have performed conductorless fine. I watched my old bass professor, Barry Lieberman also from Orpheus chamber orchestra, play in a group of 12 and they did perfectly fine with American String Project and they all listened to each other to get it done.

The fundamental reason that conductorless orchestras over 20 don't occur in practice is that music written for that many tends to be complex enough to warrant a conductor. Similar to how start-up companies probably don't need much regulation and a board of directors while multi-billion dollar enterprises invariably do, elaborate pieces are precisely the domain of symphonies. You're not about to need a conductor to have the London Philharmonic play Pachabel Canon or something, right? And boy would it seem awkward for a quartet to attempt Mozart's Requiem Mass. It's why Metallica with a symphony sounds really, really forced - Master of Puppets is more arranged like you would an étude or chamber concerto, not some symphonic score with tons of movements and five layers of polyrhythms.

Conductors are very much like popular music DJs and MCs in that they're supposed to be expert listeners in charge of coordination of many parts that could easily fall apart potentially if the musicians started to have trouble listening to each other in an especially complex piece of music. Stravinsky works come to mind, and even world class symphonies can (and certainly have!) fall apart on pieces like Rite of Spring or any movement from the Firebird Suite.

As an example of such leadership, I saw the National Symphony Orchestra play in sync with the music from Fantasia 2000 and the only way the orchestra would have known to STOP was because the conductor could see that the video did not match the piece because the orchestra faced the audience. The discipline it takes to full stop an orchestra also reflects the professionalism too. Those that grew up playing music in groups are quite familiar with stopping constantly and taking a while to slow to a stop every time, but you don't put up with that as pros. But in my defense, I just kept going out of boredom of playing maybe 6 minutes in an hour while we kept screwing with the violins or trumpets for the whole time. If people don't practice, we all suffer.
I agree with a lot of the points he mentioned on this article. PHP for me is much easier for beginners. However, newer platforms may be something experienced developers want to experiment on.
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Norway has also put a bit of money into thorium reactor R&D, with a small modern experimental reactor currently operating on a 5-year trial: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-re...
For me, I dont think its such a good idea. I am more worried about security and privacy.
When i think of old school game programming I think of programming in assembly directly onto a ROM chip.
I think the list of available solutions is the most helpful in this article. Thanks for the wealth of information.
So, I'm a software consultant but my degree was in music and I've taken conducting classes, written some (small) pieces for orchestra, etc.

If you take a highly trained orchestral ensemble that knows a certain symphony cold, and you have them perform the symphony twice, once apiece with two highly trained conductors, then the two performances will be different interpretations, and will deliberately sound very different.

The conductor doesn't only do rehearsal prep, entrances, and cutoffs. Nor about synchronization, timing, any of that technical stuff - that's all a very small part of it. The conductor emotes the entire interpretation and inspires the musicality of the ensemble in a particular direction. Some of this might be rehearsed ahead of time, but it's also alive during the live performance.

It is also completely possible for an ensemble to do their own rehearsal preparation, and to perform without a conductor. It'll be fine and musical, but they're not including the interpretation that a conductor themselves can bring to the performance. Even the conductor-less orchestras will discover new interpretations during live performance if an excellent conductor hopped up on the podium to lead them. And for pieces that require a lot of certain elements (rubato, many changing tempos or meters), a lack of conductor will leave the music sounding a bit rote.

Anyway, it's always an old joke to consider that conductors aren't really needed... in high school, we pissed off our orchestra teacher before the final concert by putting a sign on his podium: "1. Raise arms. 2. Wave arms around until the music stops. 3. Lower arms." There are also the pops in the park concerts where the local bank president will be invited up on stage to lead a Sousa march... all of that stuff is well and good, but it's all a joke. Of course conductors are needed - music suffers without them.

[edit] I should note that conducting to video is an entirely different art form than traditional conducting/performance. Different conversation.
Hi, I'm one of the creators of Brace Forms. I am really happy with the way formspree is working on assembly.

Want to send feedback? There's a form at the bottom of formspree.io and we've got people in the community that are now responding to those customer service inquiries.

Several have asked about the 10m delays. We switched email providers so we could improve our email deliverability and spam filtering. But the new provider is throttling us while they get a sense of our email traffic. I've been told that it should be back to normal soon. These are growing pains.

Frankly I'm pleasantly surprised to see the project gaining momentum. The alternative would have been to shut it down.
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You disingenuously left out the Region column from your copy of the table from the article you linked, which entirely alters the meaning of "Total Downtime". Any explanation for that?
While I don't disagree with you, I think you're might be missing a higher level difference: many of todays teams are pulling functionality OUT of the storage engine entirely, and 'rolling their own' in the application code.

I'm not passing judgement on if that's a good thing or not, but many teams I see today are looking at the storage engine as nothing but that: a temporary place to put things that can be swapped out if there's something that does the same job faster, where 'job' is glorified K:V and possibly sorting.

Ceding advanced functionality to the database is what is being avoided: my own app code is usually easier to troubleshoot than an obscure Oracle error.
Damn it. I am, like, NEVER going to finish this dissertation.
Definitely agree that music and software are collaborative and individualistic. But I also think that programmers can become muscians if they are already inclined to music from the beginning. I think music and software development takes the same amount of dedication and practice.
They fill the same role as concepts - ie. bringing type checking to the call site when using parametrized types, rather than using a duck typed approach, which leads to the big template stack traces that you get in C++.
I think a lot of good artists go through the similar problems. Finding record labels who are willing to sign you up for an exclusive contract is difficult. How much more with the filtering A&R reps do.
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are you really juggling with 3 dbs in the same project?
one shocking thing i learned once i got some professional music friends, was that they show up to a live gig without never hearing the music before. they just sit in front of the papers and play.

with my limited music training, i never thought that was even an option.
more like $60 - $180 per credit card signup + $$ for just getting people to apply.
Given the high volume of traffic Google can drive, I'm sure they'll get the best commissions from banks.

It looks like the commission is all they're after too, since it's not possible to sort by things like 'Sign Up Bonus', which would be useful to consumers.
These police officers should be the one in jail for these unethical practices.
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The videophile in me really wanted to see some test patterns. It's relatively easy to get some nice, artificially colorful CG shots to look good in screenshots, but comparatively hard to get uniform focus and illumination with color fidelity that will make human faces look natural. Using such a large LCD panel might make focus easier (and the cabinetry bigger), but I bet getting the illumination anywhere close to uniform is a real PITA!
"An overview of Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory and [...] how we can begin to understand this theory":

http://www.quora.com/Joseph-Heavner/Posts/An-overview-of-Int...

Also, from an anonymous post on 4chan @ http://boards.4chan.org/sci/thread/6931488/are-you-ready-for... :

"How to understand IUTeich from the bottom up:

- Algebra (Israel Gelfand)

- The Method of Coordinates (Israel Gelfand)

- How to Prove It: A Structured Approach (Daniel Velleman)

- Kiselev's Geometry - Planimetry and Stereometry

- Trigonometry (Israel Gelfand)

- What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Richard Courant)

- A Course of Pure Mathematics (G.H. Hardy)

- Linear Algebra (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze)

- Elementary Differential Equations (William Boyce and Richard DiPrima)

- Topology (James Munkres)

- Calculus On Manifolds (Michael Spivak)

- Principles of Mathematical Analysis (Walter Rudin)

- Real and Complex Analysis (Walter Rudin)

- Functional Analysis (Walter Rudin)

- Partial Differential Equations (Lawrence Evans)

- Analysis On Manifolds (James Munkres)

- Abstract Algebra (David Dummit and Richard Foote)

- Algebraic Topology (Allen Hatcher)

- Introduction to Smooth Manifolds (John Lee)

- Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups - (Frank Warner)

- Galois Theory (Harold Edwards)

- Linear Representations of Finite Groups (Jean-Pierre Serre and Leonhard Scott)

- A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory (Kenneth Ireland and Michael Rosen)

- Introduction to Analytic Number Theory (Tom Apostol)

- Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory (Tom Apostol)

- Riemannian geometry (Peter Petersen)

- The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function (Edward Charles Titchmarsh)

- An Introduction to Teichmüller Spaces (Yoichi Imayoshi and Masahiko Taniguchi)

- A Course in p-adic Analysis (Alain Robert)

- Foundations of p-Adic Teichmuller Theory (Shinichi Mochizuki)

- Mochizuki's papers at http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/papers-english.htm... "
Telcos logic lately seems to be:
Folks are using the network for something exciting. We know the network part, let's expand into the exciting thing that uses the network. So cloud services, streaming video, app stores. All failures so far.

Wouldn't be such a problem if they did a good job at their core business but as we learn more about google and Amazon's network, it seems like the telcos may fail there too.