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If by "luxury standard" you mean "being able to afford rent and have youth unemployment be less than 50%", then I agree.
Slowly coming around really isn't good enough; they really should have already started unusually aggressive forms of QE (like buying sovereign debt with a view to retiring it; and I'm not even suggesting specifically privileging the Greeks with this) rather than focusing on driving down corporate bond yields further and acting like they're worried about running out of Euros.

I'm not saying I'd expect an institution where economic puritanism is so pervasive they thought interest rate rises in 2011 were a good idea would rush to try that experiment. But I am saying that if ever there was a time to contemplate trying exceptional measures, it was probably last year...
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If being into sports is a conscious decision, you're probably not really into sports.

Maybe I'm reading between the lines incorrectly but this post has an air of condescension and elitism. The white-collar, academic author decides to like sports because another white-collar, academic told him it was good for him. It almost feels like he chose to like sports to assuage some form of guilt.

Maybe I'm wrong and this is just normal for people in academia, I don't know.

At least he's a Patriots fan ;)
I have no interest in ball games. I enjoy Formula 1, some MotoGp, and some some cycling. My interest in Formula 1 used to be primarily strategy, but not anymore and I'm not sure when it changed - maybe refuelling, or moving everyone onto the same tyres. There's is nothing cultivated about my disinterest in ball games. If I did have an interest in football/soccer then I would cultivate a disinterest because I wouldn't support something so regularly in the news for corruption. My first live football/soccer game was one of the biggest let downs of my life - I sat there dumbfounded that anyone could be interested. I found the live games look better the further up I sat in the stands, and the bigger the stadium, but still no interest. I went to a rugby final something or other (Wasps vs Leicester?) and fell asleep. There is no chance of me following them just to have small talk with someone, I can work around that.
Even the latter isn't contempt. I feel like I don't understand why anyone is interested in watching sports (as opposed to playing), but I certainly don't look down on them for it. At the very least, I know enough people that I respect that are into pro sports that it would be inconsistent to think something like "people who are into pro sports have nothing better to occupy their time and their minds".
I've felt for a while that not knowing much about sports has been a huge liability. As in, sitting at lunch with co-workers locked out of the conversation because I didn't know anything.

So, a couple of years ago, I had a sports-fanatic friend of mine sit with me through a few football games and explain everything that was happening. This unlocked my ability to relate to others (well, men). It was nothing short of revelatory.

After a while though, my natural indifference reasserted itself and I never bothered to do what's necessary -- like subscribe to cable -- to stay abreast of things.

As for the article, I would suggest that the cause of sports disinterest might not always be a form of cultural signaling (though I find that plausible.) In my case, it goes back to childhood, where I was terrible at all sports. After a while of getting made fun of, being picked last for teams, etc... I learned that sports were simply not for me.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I wouldn't have thought of that.
As someone who has written a similarly successful series of blog posts sharing game sales data, I can attest that does NOT help with game sales, at least not in any directly measurable way.
>so is cultivating this interest.

How so? Taking part in the things most inherent in your culture is arguably a good thing.

It helps you keep in touch with the rest of the world. It helps you carry on and start up conversations with your peers. It's easier to "break the ice".

It makes you feel more connected to society, which is something that I'm sure most of us sitting behind a computer screen 24/7 certainly could use more of.
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Btw, I see some discussion on the thread about SAT Math, GRE Quantitative being skewed towards men (!) - every time I see this, I think of not just my experience, but that of so many girls I grew up with who _loved_ math and were good at it cause nobody had informed them they shouldn't. Look at the Eastern bloc, China, etc. - some of their idiotic policies had the unintended (perhaps) effect of making generations of women realize they can do math, physics, etc. I am not talking about being Alan Turing here, I can't comment on that. But calls to drop math from CS programs - no, just no :).
> I never would have guessed that. The tech press keeps telling me how hot mobile is and how lame PC's are. Sometimes I kick myself for missing the big mobile revolution. Steam is quite the juggernaut still, even with its 30% cut.

It may just be my personal prejudice based on my friend-group, but my impression is that there are a lot more people on PC willing to seek out, try, and talk about unusual/obscure games. More people on mobile tend to get their game recommendations from the "Top Paid" and "Top Free" lists, and if you're not Angry Birds or Minecraft Pocket you're not likely to have a lot of people notice you.

Not that PC gaming doesn't include a huge contingent of people mainly play the big releases (CoD etc), but even among my esports buddies who play DotA all the time there's still a lot of excitement about smaller studios.

EDIT: Speaking of, anybody want a copy of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons? I picked up a couple of extras during the last Steam sale to give away since it's not nearly as well known as it ought to be. Difficult to describe by genre, but I might call it an interactive fairytale? Requires a controller (each thumb stick controls a character).
An important distinction is that the author's experience is mostly with the businessy side of data science, and his jab is at people who use buzzword tools that add complexity rather than simple solutions.

In defense of the hype, many tools like storm are worth their hype many times over when used for the right application.

The author makes this distinction, but it can easily be lost in the post.
If you're learning about sports to "connect" with people using "small talk", assert your motivation is elitist anyway. "Working class people" are very capable of talking about things other than sports. Yet one of the reasons pro sports is so popular with "working class people" is that thinking about the issues that really affect them (rationally) is depressing. That thing about bread and circuses is real. So I deliberately make small talk with people about things that could actually matter to them, like, where their tax money is being spent.

(Oh, and since when is a STEM job not working class?)
I agree with both your points. For #2, the only decent option may to make the book more focused on R, instead of just chapter 10.
> [ security reassurances ]

That's pretty freaking awesome - thanks for taking the time to point all this out. Might I request that you make some of this information more prominent on your site?

> [memory]

You're still talking about program code memory, not the allocated stacks and heaps. The heaps are the important part to me, because they represent db buffer pools, Redis queues, and cached responses - data which will be duplicated if multiple instances of the same command are run.

> For the scale of a Sandstorm app, it makes tons of sense to switch to sqlite, which mostly solves this problem. :)

Which unfortunately references back to my comment about re-writing apps which come in, in an effort to increase performance.
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This is also called Van Eck phreaking and is a long-understood concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
In this context, I am using elitist as a description, not an insult. It's up to you to decide if that bothers you.

The point of the post is that motivation is relevant. Some people don't want to be elitist; it bothers me. If they apply some introspection to their motivations, they may discover this behavior describes them, and they may want to change. What people "want" is not some inherent immutable trait of their humanity. Sometimes what people "want" is a result of cultural expectations.
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I feel these interfaces can be a bit of a crutch, I'd much rather have users interfacing with an API than manipulating the DB directly.
> It's called being a snob

I kind of disagree with that label, as it imply that its only is a problem with higher education. The working class show the same overt contempt at people who watch e-sports, snooker, and other sports which isn't directly associated with the working class culture.
I played sports in school, and have no problem understanding them. But watching sports doesn't interest me.

This doesn't seem to cause me problems. I can talk to working class people about other topics easily. I also have no reason to go around bashing sports, so this helps I'm sure.

One thing I've noticed is that it does block me from being close friends with certain men. Because their favorite leisure activity is watching a lot of sports with friends. That's far too high a commitment for me since I truly dislike watching sports on TV.
I found this summary of the paper disappointing. The paper that this is reporting on is at

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~az30/Downloads/Micro14.pdf

and describes a framework for measuring how bad side channel risks are (using custom software that tries to create a worst-case scenario by intentionally signaling to the outside world). They then turn out to be pretty bad, in the intentional case, but a big part of the researchers' contribution is that perhaps this is quantifiable, for each particular kind of side channel that one wants to examine.

This paper did not introduce any new kind of side channel, and extensively cites literature in which other people introduced (and often demonstrated) the side channel and emanations risks. These risks are often very bad, governments have studied them intensively since at least the 1960s, and it's a great thing that academic researchers are now helping make the public familiar with them. Hopefully that will lead to some techniques for mitigating them in practice other than living and working in a SCIF.

Indeed, for timing-channel attacks there are lots of important mitigations that software developers are now learning about (having to do with performing operations in constant-time). Maybe this research can point to ways of making some operations (approximately) constant-power, so power and RF-related information leakages will be attenuated.
Under-voltage is only bad if the tube is designed for a high voltage and you don't give it what it is designed for. If the tube needs 200V, you give it 200V. If it needs 30V, give it 30V.

Some snobs will say that nothing which runs at only 30V will have the proper headroom.

... and then they drive their amp with chip-and-diode based overdrive pedal (e.g. Ibanez Tubescreamer), running on 9V, haha.
The other side of that coin is to realize that who you are, where you came from, what you believe often (but not always especially in the last case) is something you have no control over.

Sports is the perfect example of this in that you can and should take great pride and joy in everything that makes you, you, but also realize that there's someone on the other side of the TV screen that has the same reasons for taking pride and loving who they are.

If you can both do that and appreciate the other for that, and not hate them because of it, then you've got it right.
> For the scale of a Sandstorm app, it makes tons of sense to switch to sqlite, which mostly solves this problem. :)

Case in point: EtherCalc, which usually runs with Redis storage, deliberately uses the fallback "toy" JSON file storage with Sandstorm, which saves 1MB RAM per document instance and makes migration easier.

This works because there's only a few concurrent writers per document at most, instead of the multi-tenant scenario where there's thousands of concurrent writers at any given time.
In fact, that was the way Moveable Type worked and was a dominant publishing tool before WordPress took off.
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Everybody makes harmful actions every week, some minor some not. You should be able to identify them by a pattern of harmful actions.

If you haven't observed their harmful actions or those supposed actions' effects, you're acting irrationally and going on witchhunts.
I used to have the attitude he mentioned, and when my eyes opened, I rejected it. Then I forced myself to watch American Football for a season. I actually had a good time. But I just couldn't really get into it. Problem is that when I have free time, I typically prefer to spend it doing other things. Not having cable doesn't help matters either.

Maybe I'll give it another shot. It seems worth it to be able to connect to more people.
It is contempt. It implies that there is no valid reason for liking X. You may not look down on them but when someone says "I don't see how anybody...", that is contempt. Not understanding is vastly different from expressing disbelief that anyone would do a particular thing.
Interpreted charitably, the latter is not contempt. But I can see someone saying that, but implying there is something wrong with such people.
I understand, label nerds as pretentious and jackasses, because they dis your favorite subject. Welcome to the nerd club. You think its tiresome having somebody try to make you look stupid for liking that stuff? Imagine living it, from the age of 12 through 25. Its fucking exhausting. So give techies a break already.
Yeah the demo "app list" is just a placeholder. We're working on an "app store" with self-service uploads, searchability, paid apps, pay-what-you-want for open source apps, etc. Once it is ready it will be available to everyone, whether you use self-hosting or managed.
That's such a great line that you just wrote: "You can setup a WordPress blog in 10 seconds". Why don't you say that under the demo link? Or say, "Try our demo. It takes 10 seconds to install WordPress" or whatever app.

It's not onerous at all, but you have to get people to the point where they're actually at the demo. My "10 minutes" was based on the thought process that goes through my head when I see a "try our demo" link. If the demo takes only 10 seconds, that's highlighting a major selling point of your platform, so make that explicit.
> I never would have guessed that. The tech press keeps telling me how hot mobile is and how lame PC's are.

I think part of it is the demographic. While I’m not much of a mobile gamer and biased towards PCs a bit, I believe the PC market is more accepting – both in terms of getting your work out there and people paying money for it – of indie titles (Steam Greenlight, Itch.io, indie publishers like Devolver that tend to stick with PC and consoles, etc.)

Mobile is hot for those that lucked out or had a lot of time and manpower to know how to work the markets on those platforms. For someone that wants to just get a game out there I think PC gives the best shot.
With a modern submachine gun, you actually twist the handles away from each other in a way that compensates for the drift of the barrel that occurs when using full auto.
Power side channels are extensively studied. See, for instance, most smart card research.
"Car of Tomorrow." LOL.

It's less functional, spacious and performant than a much safer all-electric car you can buy today for less money. It has neither DC fast charging capability nor enough electric range to go anywhere reliably (22 EPA miles in ideal conditions). It has all the maintenance hassles and costs of a traditional ICE plus whatever they are for BMW's electric technology.

The i8 is an old-school gas guzzling supercar that happens to have a battery inside it.
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If you shard a RethinkDB table to split it across multiple servers, and then create a changefeed on the table, the database will automatically send changes from both servers. Basically, server management/sharding in RethinkDB is visible to ops people, but is completely abstracted from the application developer. All writes are immediately consistent.

Rethink doesn't provide ACID guarantees, though. If you want to make a change to multiple documents in a table and have ACID guarantees, I'd stick with traditional RDBMSes.
This is super super cool. Feedback: I keep loosing the mouse pointer. The red dot seems to sometimes show up but it's pretty hard to track. Chrome latest on Ubuntu 14
Your measurement for "what is true cold fusion" only works for devices that are extremely showy and easy to put together (aka, Hollywood cold-fusion reactors). For everything else, I see three problems with your statement:

Firstly, is it only cold fusion if you can build and operate your reactor for cheaper than the price of your local utility? Would it not be a scientific breakthrough if it were not immediately economically viable? Hard to make money to build money for your proof when it costs you money to sell to the grid.

Or, if it does manage to output energy cheaper than the local utility can produce it, you have to factor in return on investment as well. If your device costs $100,000 to create (which I think could easily be a low-ball estimate) and generates $1 of energy a day for the grid, you're looking at a long time for your return on investment, and your proof.

And the above is only for devices that just magically output AC/DC power with no extra infrastructure. If your device only generates waste heat, then you're looking at building steam turbines, high pressure pipes, holding tanks, and all the other expensive stuff a traditional energy plant takes. In order to do that, you need a large investment.
Its funny that you brought up that Tennessee Williams quote because I have heard people in Cleveland try to twist the words around to sound like an endorsement of Cleveland. I am not one of those people, for the record.
If I had the chance I would spend one or two days doing nothing, the next few days thinking of what I wanted to do... making a plan. Then would start walking towards my goals.
We use forever for this: https://github.com/foreverjs/forever

forever -w start yourFile.js

That'll keep it up and going as a daemon and reboot it when files change :)
Ask Chinese people if they would live in Tokyo.
I sympathize with OP but want to make Two corrections -

1. It wasn't an SEO company, it was a Scam Artist impersonating an SEO company... let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.

2. It wasn't an attempted growth hack. It is a racket and should be called that. In fact, every growth hacker out there will insist that "putting users first" and "creating a sticky product" is growth hacking...not scamming people.
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That would convince me. The fact that it isn't done is telling.

I'm sure steam-turbine generators are neither cheap nor easy, so up to a certain point I can see skipping the expense and the hassle. But were I strongly suspected of being a fraud, I'd put a self-sustaining setup high on my list. I think the (incredibly high) interest in the device after such a demonstration would make the effort worthwhile.
We can talk about music, politics (civilly), travel, technology, relationships, family, friends, books, TV... but since we can't talk about sports that is somehow a problem?

If you're interested in sports go for it, if you're not then avoid them. Making conversation and forming new relationships with people has nothing to do with watching football.
Wow. That's a really great quote. It captures my social values perfectly, irrespective of sports, or my telling others what they should do.

Yes, sports are all about immersing yourself in the earnest discussion of trivial minutiae. Maybe that's why intellectuals disdain it. It's a tempest in a TV set.

But sports are also one of the very few venues which are: a) dramatic, b) can be shared with friends, foes, and strangers alike, c) fair, and d) largely unscripted.

Sports are a kind of platonic ideal -- a pure meritocracy: where the cream rises to the top, where talent is rewarded, where justice is done, yet tragedy may strike. In today's heavily commercialized, overproduced, and politicized world, such fields of dreams are all too rare.

Finally and maybe most important, sports play to the need we all have to cheer for for heros and heroics and to bathe in the glamour of their victory.

Maybe the inescapably gladiatorial nature of sports competition also embarrasses the fine arts crowd?
So to avoid using a "too new" language, they invented something even newer?
I've had machine-gun training, with UZI, MP5 and M16. http://www.donath.org/Defense/Guns/LFI-IV/DCP01305.JPG Probably the biggest factor is simply spending time practicing, becoming comfortable with the power & behavior of the weapon, and developing the nuances to compensate. Modern ones are significantly lighter weight, subject to muzzle rise (recoil makes point-of-aim move up) and just general jumping around. Very recent ones better address such movement, both in balance of action and by using significantly lighter (weaker) ammo designed for penetration over power (lots of tiny holes vs a few big ones). Addition of a silencer helps by mitigating muzzle blast & recoil. Old or new, it's having spent enough time shooting it to grow accustomed to the behavior; what seems overwhelming & uncontrollable at first becomes predictable & manageable.
I think the KRISS Vector is an intriguing modern full-auto weapon. It incorporates an internal counterweight system to vastly reduce felt recoil. Like the Thompson, it is also chambered in .45 ACP (and uses Glock mags at that).

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To quote a wise man, "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
I imagine this might fall under the mosaic theory (that non-insiders are able to undertake original research to correlate a wide variety of individually non-material data to form an opinion about a security). As far as I know, such actions (by non-insiders) do not fall afoul of insider trading prohibitions. Otherwise, how would stock analysis work?

Whether a card processor's handling of financial transaction flow would be viewed as non-insider is something that I don't know. I can make reasonable arguments either way.
Many people repeat things without knowing why. Next time you hear someone say they don't like sports ask why.

Personally, I really enjoy sports. What I don't like is the organizations (NFL, NCAA) and owners that sell advertising and broadcasting rights on top of them. There's far too much watching and not enough doing.
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If there is a fire, you can't put it out by drenching it with gasoline.
Oh boy. Let the ass whooping begin.
You're right. Maybe I should just say that this research provides a possible way to measure how effective mitigations have been, if we believe that their metric is meaningful.