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> 1) Math is fun!

It's fun because its incredibly rewarding! The elation of the "a-ha!" moment in math is second to none.

> 4) Calculus and Linear Algebra ...

Though I wouldn't get too caught up in the rigor of analysis or vector spaces right away. If you are self-studying, just spend enough time to feel confident computing and manipulating integrals, differentiation, and matrix math.

Then find a good intro to discrete math textbook covering a wide range of topics: number theory, graph theory, logic, set theory, etc, and learn how to write a "good" proof. This will open up a number of mathematical doors.
They also have two weeks paid vacation for staff.

Whenever I road trip (ie all the time), I always eat at Waffle House. Out of hundreds of visits, I've never had a bad experience, and the food is always very good.

My wife and I are doing Valentine's Day dinner there because they're so enshrined in our travel adventures.
How many subscribers do you have so far? I think I'm going to just go for it and try for a month. :)
There's a brief explanation here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COFF#History

(ELF replaced COFF)
I don't disagree, but given the highly illegal nature of the business (whether or not it ought to be legal is a separate, political question; I'd say yes, but as the law stands something like silk Road is clearly not legit), and Ulbricht's post being the social origin of public awareness, how is it not suspicious? If you can't find any earlier sign of its existence, it's reasonable* to suspect the social origin coincides with the operational origin. Remember he also posted (under the same username, altoid) to the Shroomery (a website dedicated to the consumption of psychedelic mushrooms) and set up a wordpress page with the basics of access and an invitation to come and sell drugs through there: http://web.archive.org/web/20110204025853/http://silkroad420...

I would imagine the FBI asked Wordpress for their logged data about that, which could have provided them with additional circumstantial evidence.

* in the legal sense of being arguable via logic, as opposed to an inexplicable decision based on intuition or unthinking application of dogma.
My last biggie voyage also involved an anointing with Abramelin oil, and I was trying to focus on a copy of the Hermit card from a Tarot deck. By this time I was very deep into using DMT as a meditation tool, and on this occasion I was really pushing my luck.

I sat on the back deck of a cousin's cabin, fairly removed from the modern world, and a massive electrical storm was slowly gathering through the evening. For most folks I've spoken with DMT trips last 10 to 15 minutes, but for me they last hours. I'm still unsure as to whether this was due to a stronger variety of crystal we were growing, or because I was giving myself to it that much more.

Suffice to say, on that night the world around me became pulsating molecules, everything connected like neon blueprints going 3-D and contorting and revolving around themselves, extending into and beyond everything. The raindrops were merely pulses, the colors like waves flowing softly around me. It grew to be a violent storm, but the passivity I felt, especially from the benevolence of the bright Felix-the-Cat-like elves whose eyes would at times appear in the arrangements of atoms about me...I knew that no matter what happened around me, I had a strong center, strong enough to enable my survival of virtually anything. I was the only stillness in the universe.

It sounds silly, I'm sure, but I have known fear by no means and in no circumstances since that night, almost two years ago. Religion strengthens the soul for some. DMT reinforced my spine, and my faith in myself.
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Does the FCC currently have rules that allow the blocking of "illegal" traffic?
"I see a story about a protagonist who was not only supremely arrogant, he was supremely incompetent at opsec"

Ever seen Catch Me If You Can?

Also, I agree a true to life story would be pretty boring. Thankfully, truth isn't exactly a requirement in hollywood storytelling.
Same thing in Australia. Have to visit the branch for simple tasks that should be doable over the phone. Plus the branches are often busy and close early.

I recently got married and my wife changed her surname to my surname. The process of updating this was quite a pain for most Australian banks (even when she was just an additional card holder on a credit card).

However, for American Express card, this process was extremely easy. Phone up, customer service emails, reply back with a copy of marriage certificate, new card in the mail within a few days. Perhaps not 100% secure, but easy. Perhaps they take more processes from the US?
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I have some family friends who homeschooled their six kids. The first three got a thorough, good education and were well-socialized. The last three, not so much. Their mom was older and tired by then, and community support had diminished after the 80's. I will say this though, even though a couple turned out to be "problem children" anyway, they weren't uniquely bad compared to troubled kids in public school.
Would love some feed back on my first web-app. Thanks!
While I cannot speak for the majority of your experience, what you just described sounds very much to be related to revulsion towards the inclusion of different biological/reproductive traits within the same, supposedly semi-private, room; this may provoke discomfort within your average female attendants in the room, and works against the design of the rooms themselves. (The rooms utilizing separate urinals optimized for certain sexes.)
I understand your reasoning behind have some distaste against this particular viewer, but it is preferable to attempt to understand the philosophical underpinnings and priorities of the other side than merely note said side's existence- such a lack of introspection is part of the problem, not the solution.
Probably the vast majority of science never touches diffyq or calculus. At least not directly enough to require anything more than a cursory familiarity with them.

Statistics is probably far more important to most scientific disciplines, and is probably best taught beginning with real world examples that a young student can relate to (say, baseball).
When they documented the phone call to the officials in Iceland what did they write down, what did they say was the legal basis for the investigation? It sure looks like they didn't have a basis at that point beyond need for the investigation.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. I imagine the call went something like:

US: "We think we've found [blah blah blah]. We'd like you to seize the server."

Iceland: "Eh, OK, sounds good."

Then, if the statements that RMP followed Icelandic law are not a fabrication, they would have continued on until the RMP felt they had sufficient information to get their warrant or whatever.

I don't think the Icelandic government or police would have treated the FBI as an adversary.
How many programs written in Perl do you think add currency values together, vs. how many sum the harmonic series?
Backend on top of the existing API? I must be missing something but I still don't understand how this is easier than just hitting the PostageApp or [insert competitor here] API directly.
I disagree. I think that the article does an EXCELLENT job of describing it. They avoided the term "cardinality" on purpose, since the target audience was people who might well be scared off by fancy words they weren't familiar with.

And the problem posed was not to count the number of visitors, but to count the number of different people who visited... the fancy word for that is the "cardinality of unique visitors" but "number of different people" is just as accurate.

Counting the number of people could NOT be done with the same amount of space. This example required two simple counters on the blackboard... call it 30 bits of memory, assuming you didn't expect either counter to get more than 8. That's just about exactly enough space to store ONE social security number... and nowhere near enough to count the unique people.
> Only voice and SMS mattered until 2007(iPhone launch).

So the areas in which regulated are the ones which stagnated and became dramatically less relevant?

It seems to me like you're suffering the distortion field.
The broker/buyer conflict of interest in real estate is exactly what we're working on at Open Listings [1]. It's interesting to think about whether a flat-fee model like ours could work in domain brokering. It's kind of an interesting thought experiment to consider what kind of input you'd need for a program to do the buy-side negotiation.

[1]: https://www.openlistings.co

Edit: Not trying to undermine this domain broker's business at all! He's obviously doing an amazing job hustling for his clients and there's no better option if you really want a domain.
Haven't had that experience. They might ask about price range which only makes sense, no point showing you a $1500 axe when you won't spend more than $300. But I was in GC about a month ago and spent an hour fooling around with different guitars and got no pressure from the salesman at all. He knew I was looking at the $300 stuff but he was fine with me trying out the $1500 too.

Back in the 80's, Guitar Center was AWFUL. I'd go in to buy a pack of strings and the salesman would want to negotiate the price. Hated the place and would never go. I rediscovered GC a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised at the changes.
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I really like this idea and surprised that your friend in France couldn't find Japanese tea there. Would you consider sending tea from other also very highly esteemed tea growing regions (Taiwan)?
Correct. Like goroutines, but even lighter, as they have no stack. Java threads map directly to OS threads, do they not?
See also: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/parallel-construction-law-e...
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>I'm just stating the facts.

Technically. The problem is that setting the rules so that some providers saturate is functionally equivalent to throttling arbitrarily.

Verizon is setting these rules in a way that can't be reasonably complied with, so they are fully responsible for the outcome. It shouldn't be phrased as if it justifies anything.
> I have zero problem with someone making a 100 million a year

Maybe you should have a problem with it.

I get what you're saying, that there may not be anything immoral about being extravagantly compensated, and in principle I agree with that. However, there is also something to be said for the overwhelming amount of political power that such wealth brings.

It may be that we want to avoid such concentrations of wealth not out of a sense of fairness, but to keep people from hijacking our democracy.
That is funny, I did a valentine's dinner at waffle house when I was in college. We brought a little boom box for romantic music and those little disposable candles for mood lighting :P
There were people arguing Han Reiser was innocent and "coerced" all the way up to when he lead the police to her body...
I suppose if you find there to be no value to the Twitter service itself, that might be a fair proposition.
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I believe they're actually trying this as well.
No, because part of the reason he was denied bail is that he had a relative fortune of several million in Bitcoins, not all of which have been traced, and is thus a serious flight risk given the severity of the charges against him.
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I'm going to an orthodontist tomorrow for a consultation. The extra few thousand are well worth it in my opinion to get it done right without potentially damaging my teeth.
Are you trolling? Data is to voice as electricity is to fire; one is inherently more versatile and can handle all applications the other can. You're basically asking the equivalent of "why has all the innovation happened in electricity and not in fire? Must be the gubmint's fault"

What did you expect? That a robot would read out websites to us?
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I'm talking about an alternate universe where it's available on OS X, and it's about $45 per month if you get the subscription version.

The other thing is that I want to use OS X for everything else -- I much prefer using it for development above Windows, so while you may be correct in terms of sheer dollar value comparison, in terms of opportunity and switching costs it's quite higher than that for me personally.
One line snark forgiven. The key word here is "seems".

He was a physics student, an eagle scout, he started a book recycling business that gave 10% to charity. He had some (however misguided) philosophical ideas. He got poison ivy picking trash out of a tree for Pete's sake. Positive qualities... and there are plenty more.

If you sat down and had a beer with the guy I guess you wouldn't think "criminal". I'm betting if you sat down and had a beer with Sammy Gravano you would be hard pressed not to think that.
For example like what instructions below do. This is pretty standard nowadays when high performance is desired.

Here are some specific instruction examples about how it's done.

Bit field operations; Bit field extract, etc.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36859/gnydm.html#s...

Parallel bits extract / deposit.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36859/gnyak.html#s...

SIMD (AVX2 in this example link); Pack, unpack, shuffle, permute, broadcast, etc.:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36859/gntae.html#s...
> Anyone care to bet the cable companies will take a no-holds-barred attempt to delay this until after the presidential election?

They'll probably just sue to invalidate it once the FCC finalizes it (they may seek a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement as part of that, as well); there isn't much they can do in the way of delaying it otherwise.
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iak8god isn't bigoted. Hardcore Christians do an incredible disservice to their children when the homeschool. My friend grew up in a Christian household and, while he wasn't homeschooled, he was told that "science is bullshit propaganda and we don't care if you don't do well in public school science". At this point he's an atheist and he's pissed at his parents for it.

Yeah, they might be decent and kind people. But being kind and decent is not a replacement for being effective.

> I don't see many Lutherans or Baptists running around blowing up planes or burning down villages,

Lutherans do get a mostly free pass, but you should listen to this: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-48-prophet...

I suspect that there's a correlation between the amount of secular education given to (or forced upon) a religious population and how peaceful they are.
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Wow..light involved in the lithography process causes wear on the lenses? To what degree?
Im curious, how would the German system in your experience handle students with poor memory, severe social anxiety, dyslexia, ADHD, etc?
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Someone should point his declaration "01 TOTAL PIC S9(4)V9(2)." isn't packed, it's display.
You also don't refuse to tell the judge what your expert will testify about if you want your witness to have their change to tell the truth.
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"I disagree" is not the same as "he is not smart". (Don't feel bad. Lots of people have trouble telling the difference.)

He got Silk Road up and running. He was a grad physics student who had authored some papers. He is relatively intelligent. Objective fact.
There is also Kavorka[1] as an alternative to Function::Parameters, which can use Type::Tiny types in signatures. The next step after that is Moops[2]...

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Kavorka

[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/Moops
That rate for pregnancy that you quote is not per-use - it's for an entire year of imperfect (normal) condom usage. With better sex ed and more knowledge that can further be reduced substantially.

Plus, Lutherans and other christians did go around burning down villages and killing people. Christianity is no more enlightened than Islam in that respect. There are extremists in both faiths.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/9313/9611/6384/truth_...
That was my first reaction too, but I think we're reaching the point where the increased computational complexity is manageable. Efficiency has certainly never been one of Perl's selling points.
I imagine there's a trapdoor available if you want to use floats anyway; actually, knowing Perl, I'm sure of it.
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There seems to be solid success cases for implementing cross platform apps. Tivo recently redid its entire UI codebase in Haxe, and it's opened up a whole bunch of new platforms for them.
http://www.slashgear.com/tivo-on-xbox-one-and-fire-tv-possib...

I'm sure it's a painful process, and it might slow down development for a while. But, the ability to push changes across the incredibly fractured mobile/web/native front end landscape seems like an incredible advantage.
Without unbundling last mile, it still accomplishes almost nothing. It's ironic, the situation he describes his startup facing is EXACTLY what any startup trying to do the same would face today. As long as there is a monopoly on last mile, the ISPs will find a way to kill innovation and competition.
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> So next time a major project is started, people have to guesstimate where cables/pipes are.

When surveys are done now, they spray paint the results onto the ground/pavement. Not sure how new it is but the color scheme was put into a national standard in 2013 "AS 5488-2013 Classification of Subsurface Utility Information". A different kind of open data!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_location
A fighting chance of what? Unless they monetize search, it's just a cost. What ad-free business model can monetize search?

Unless they are paying Google a fortune to be the current engine, and rolling their own is cheaper. This seems unlikely.
DataStax acquire Aurelius the company behind Titan, a distributed graph database
Haha, fair enough. A creative retelling of this story could be pretty entertaining. If you sweep all of Ulbrichts terrible opsec under the rug (and retell it as excellent opsec), you could make a pretty compelling man vs The Man story.

Consider my criticism withdrawn - fiction, "based on a true story" does usually manage to be pretty entertaining.

[Edit: I do still think that a youtube video of him getting arrested would really have taken off.]
Yeah, that's the same sort of thing I think about whenever I see this crap too. It's understandable with banking systems, they're often forced to interface with old and antiquated mainframes with formal constraints, but it's simply unacceptable in a modern system.

Even if the solution winds up being storing the hash as the credential and simply hashing it in transit with middleware, it's better than this garbage.
I don't believe this was claimed by the React team. In fact, I distinctly remember Tom emphasizing that they're going for "learn-once, write-anywhere" rather than chasing the pipe dream of "write-once, run-anywhere".
Perl 5 has packed decimal.
Just wondering whether a distinction should be made between learning a framework (RoR, jQuery) and a language (JavaScript, Ruby). Frameworks do magic, languages generally don't.
Read starting on page 3[1], where it explains the case law.

[1] http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/Courses/nat-sec/2009s/InreTerrori...
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You can definitely find Japanese tea in France (at least in Paris). But it's usually quite expensive and without much variety: mostly Sencha like you would find in any Japanese supermarket, at 4 times the price.

I love Taiwanese tea, but so far I'd rather stay focused on Japanese tea since it is very convenient for me to search for (I live in Osaka). I hope to eventually be able to expand to other Asian countries!
That's not at all true. Title II means that peering pricing and agreements now fall under the FCC's purview for "reasonableness", which means that the FCC can step in at some future point and make Verizon knock this shit off.
I'm running a Saas company. Some of the most important metrics for us are: MRR (monthly recurring revenue), Customer Churn, MRR Churn, LTV (Life Time Value of a Customer), CAC (Cost of acquiring a customer).
I've wondered to myself why they didn't buy DuckDuckGo and just integrate. I'm sure there are 1000 good reasons not to do it, but I did wonder it to myself. Especially since they seemed to put it in the spotlight with the iOS8/Yosemite release. Privacy is now a legitimate selling point and people would probably be willing to pay for services and tools that value that. But I guess there is no value in buying it so that would be why.
To be more specific, if our reference time were slowing slightly, where 'our' is defined as all humans and devices making the measurements.
President Bush gave Charles Colson the Presidential Citizens Medal. All Colson did was conspire to kill a US journalist while working as White House counsel. And conspire to firebomb the Brookings Institution and orchestrated the Watergate burglary. The guy was awarded 15 honorary doctorates and praised by so many Republicans.

Jack Anderson would possibly be dead since the conspiracy only halted when Watergate happened.

Surely there is redemption for Ross. Colson spent less than a year in prison even though the others (eg G Gordon Liddy) admtted they were planning to kill Anderson.
When he said "nobody," I don't think 'tptacek meant "DPR at the time." DPR now knows that the hit he ordered was never carried through.
I've often thought there is opportunity there for building consumer electronics for older people. Every time daylight savings changed, I would go over to my Great Aunt's place and update the clock on her VCR and make sure all her shows were programmed in to record.

I've also seen her insist her TV wont switch on as she impatiently pounds the on/off button again and again, saying, "See, it's not doing anything!"

I wished the remote had a separate on button and off button, so she could pound that on button as often as she liked until the picture showed up on the TV. Idempotent remotes!
It's not really bigoted, but the evolution fight is used as a standard in the culture war. I have six friends from the same family that were all taught creationism and they still have better critical thinking skills than the average kid with a public education ends up with.

to be clear I think creationism is stupid and insupportable, but it didn't end up hurting them that bad and I know plenty of people with "better" educations that don't seem to be inoculated against believing stupid stuff. For instance, people I know that have expressed skepticism about vaccinations are evenly split between people I would classify as "conservative Christian" and "progressive".
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You might want to read this [0]. It starts:

As someone who participated in the rise of the religious right in the 1970s and 1980s, I can tell you that you can’t understand the modern Republican Party and its hatred of government unless you understand the evangelical home-school movement.

[0] http://www.salon.com/2015/01/20/the_rights_home_school_consp...