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It's a matter of philosophical taste. I like to look at fancy typography myself. But there is a time and place for that, which is a separate time from reading something for content.

Unique designs serve a functional purpose, helping you remember where you read something, who authored it. That purpose can be served a different way.

And philosophically, I'm not sure I should care about who wrote it. One author having a prettier template than another adds bias. A set of various authors using the same template can make the mediocre ones appear more trustworthy than mediocre authors using an ugly template.

If I chose the template for everyone, I'd judge them by content faster, since I'd be used to the look and new pretty typography wouldn't distract me.
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A good portion of PHP 7's performance improvements came from better structure packing:

https://wiki.php.net/phpng-int

http://nikic.github.io/2014/12/22/PHPs-new-hashtable-impleme...
#pragma(pack) or __attribute__((packed)) still won't re-order structure fields for optimal alignment. The directive/extension only prevents holes in the structure.
The first thing I noticed is that there isn't much happening below the equator.
I know better than the compiler how my data is used. It is really simple as that. I can optimize with the totality of the program in mind while the compiler optimizes on heuristic like `order largest to smallest`. So yes, the compiler is doing it sub-optimally. Not to mention the repetitious hell it creates when writing C bindings, or memory-mapping structures, and so on and so forth.

In the end, however, my reservations are mostly due to a "get off my lawn" mentality.
This is very interesting, they have trained a 12 layer network to play Go, and that does quite well by itself. They also have built an asynchronous Monte-Carlo search + Neural Network implementation as a proof of concept. More awesome stuff out of the Google DeepMind and Google Brain groups.
It seems like most of your points are already addressed in patent law. A good patent litigation counsel on the opposing side should be able to dig up prior art to invalidate any overly broad or obvious claims, and should be able to invalidate any patent that does not sufficiently teach how to make and how to use the invention due to lack of enablement.
Fun fact: MUMPS predates C as a programming language. Sad that a company like that continues to do as well as it does, but then again it sells to admins, not doctors.
Looks cool, however I couldn't watch the video as it kept freezing. Marked it to check it out later.
Out of curiosity are you in the states or Europe?
I couldn't disagree more. All news sources editorialize. Knowing their slant and accounting for it is the only way to find truth in their writing.
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It would probably make the exploit harder (unless the exploit targets the filesystem code itself), but there are almost always subtle gaps between "breaking the exploit" and "fixing the vulnerability". This is a fun question to dig into, though.

This is also very similar to the tactic of using an encrypted message digest in place of a MAC. The whole point of a MAC is that it can't be calculated without the secret that provides its security, and so schemes that use digests instead are (a) harder to attack than systems that do nothing and (b) still broken.
Sorry, I missed that you were comparing five Hubbles to five resupply missions, not to one. But I'm not sure you would have been able to get five Hubbles for an average of ~$500m each either.

(OTOH, all this is just considering what the best option for Hubble was, taking the existence of the Shuttle as a given. Justifying the existence of the Shuttle partly in terms of the Hubble would be more difficult: that $450m-a-flight figure doesn't seem to include development costs...)
> I think it would put Google at risk of being found in contempt of the court...

I'm not a lawyer and don't speak for Google, but my understanding is that the regulation prevents you from telling anyone except the relevant parties when a link has been delisted. I think "relevant party" includes who the link is about and the webmaster that owns the link itself.

It would kind of defeat the "right to be forgotten" if Google were to loudly publish a report saying, "Hey, everybody! Forget that Fred Smith did XYZ on this date!"

The reason we know that some things were delisted was because the relevant parties were themselves journalists who then chose to publicize the fact.

So, yes, if Google publicized all delistings, they would violate the legislation. This is something the author of the article certainly knows, so decrying Google for not doing it is disingenuous at best.
The src=typd was a carry over from Twitter. Removed it.
It's still a much better situation than HTTP/1.1. At least an HTTP/2 compliant implementation has an exact definition, that it either is, or isn't. An HTTP/1.1 implementation has a vast number of corner cases and optional bits.

Sure, if you're out-of-spec, all bets are off. It's just that with hTTP/1.1 even 100% in-spec implementations are a pretty wide target zone.
You're right, mea culpa. It was a $50M investment on a reported $500M valuation. So 10% to the new investors (with a possibly defunct plan to give 10% of that, i.e. 1%, to the site's users), and 90% split between Advance Publications, ESOP, and the legacy angels (reported at less than 1% of the pre-investment total).

As for the ESOP percentage, all I've found is a reference in Forbes that describes it as a "sizable minority".
How could Google be transparent here?

The whole point of the legislation is to stop publicizing information. Google can't exactly publicly tell the world about everyone they've been told to stop publicly telling the world about, can they?
Updated. I meant over a thousand. Not a couple thousand.
@shayanjm on twitter.

I have a half-baked contextual analysis implementation which I could probably spin into a high-volume twitter analysis tool. Was doing NLP analysis on unstructured data (like news articles) and extracting topics + extrapolating commonalities between sets. Could be used to pick up topics from tweets and determine if two unrelated tweets are actually talking about the same thing (without necessarily replicating the same syntax).
for what it's worth, we have a lot of remote guys that live in texas, midwest, etc. we're in LA and pay those guys LA salaries.
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Fortunately, you can host your own VPN server on DigitalOcean for $5/month. Heck, you could probably even get away with one of atlantic.net's $1/month servers.
TrueCrypt and related drive encryption technologies are useless if the NSA has installed their custom firmware onto your hard drive.
This is how cynical I've become about this kind of stuff, I see it as a small victory that AT&T admits they're doing it.
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The compiler can't know exactly how I intend the data to be read or written to at runtime. You generally don't want to read and write to the same cache line at a time.
It would bring me great relief to replace the verb "leverage" with "use". Unfortunately the noun "leverage" is legit and this extension wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
No it's not safe to say that at all. Condé Nast is a subsidiary of Advanced Publications, one of MANY (AP is huge). Advanced Publications is the company that owns the majority share of Reddit, Inc. It's unlikely a small subsidiary of AP has much influence on one of AP's investments.

We don't even know how much influence AP has, since owning a majority share doesn't mean they have a lot of control. Also Reddit, Inc. just went through a round of investments, so those investors likely have a lot of influence too.
Here's a proof I came up with a few days ago (and it became relevant so quickly!)

Assume by contradiction that there is a computable function f that grows faster than the busy beaver problem. We can then make a Turing Machine that takes input n, calculates f(n), and then constructs and simulates every n-state Turing Machine for f(n) steps. Since f grows faster than the number of steps the most productive TM would take, any simulated machine in not in the halt state would never halt, and we could select the busiest beaver out of the remaining Turing Machines. We have constructed a TM that computes the busy beaver problem, which is a contradiction. Thus, there can be no computable function that grows faster than the busy beaver function.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9059476
Does Google track pages visited by their fibre subscribers?
The ZFS crypto implementation (which isn't really available outside Oracle's Solaris) uses AES-GCM, which solves the authentication problem.
A pity they didn't name the two moons Chip and Dale.
Not if they you to read all the minor update changes in order. Personally, I'm fine with either way.
The priority date of the patent was Dec 5, 1997. So was it forward thinking a little over 17 years ago?
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Hm, that's interesting. I've been a musician since I was in middle school (not super-skilled, mostly recreational) and I took German as an undergraduate. All my teachers always complimented my pronunciation, and even comparing myself to other students in the class I was definitely better at it. I was pretty terrible at the language altogether though; I'd be hard pressed to do anything more complicated than ordering a beer and I wasn't much better when I was actively learning it.
I think (actually, I hope) the best business advice from the article is that Vogel just basically built games he wanted to play. I guess it's fortunate that his desires aligned with enough people that there was a market, but I do love the idea that you have a vision for something you would use and build it. Of course, I'm sure there are many cases where this isn't true, but I sure like the concept.
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Excel 2010 for Windows also produced the same results.
If you have filesystem encryption, block-level encryption is probably unnecessary. Filesystem encryption is in most ways superior to block-level crypto.
I would suggest that you're ignorant of the issue.

It's not the information existing that's the problem.

It's that the most powerful search robot in the world, with little context, can tell other people severely out-dated information about you that people treat as canonical fact, long after the information was pertinent or relevant, and that can define an entire person's online identity. And it may never fade away, or drop down the rankings, because the computer is too stupid to realize that a house foreclosure notice for 10 years ago is not an appropriate thing to show.
In some cases you can benefit by "struct of arrays" instead of "array of structs". This benefits packing, enables SIMD, and usually improves persistence speed too. Database people call this a "column store". So if you abstract it a little you can do per-column compression that is really hard to do with vanilla structs.

One thing I learned with Picasa (which is basically an in-memory database): if you're storing a lot of data in RAM, sometimes you should think of the data structures more as a database (with copy in/out, rather than reference). In multithreaded cases, this kind of approach unexpectedly gets you more parallelism and speed.
Oops! I just assumed lead was denser than gold without checking! I didn't realize how dense gold actually is.
Google and the other search engines offer a standard mechanism for websites to tag such content so it won't be indexed. That's a much better solution for the man in the article. As it is now he has to make a request to every search engine to remove these search results, including new future search engines that might arise. Such victims would be better served if they could go to the source website to have such content deindexed for all search engines at once.
It's not about a pissing contest who has worse traffic. It's that I don't need to get a job with a commute, so I don't.
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Well if you're going to downvote my contribution, at least offer a half-decent reason for doing so.
Link to the dictionary: https://github.com/serverdensity/Fluffify/blob/master/fluffi...
One important note on teachers: they make you play with the proper form and that makes a huge difference. It makes you less likely to develop an injury, and after you get over the initial hurdle of learning how to make your hands stay in the appropriate positions it makes it much easier to play. Bad technique makes even relatively simple music hard to play.
Possibly the farthest away two things have ever been from each other where the word "buzzed" was used to describe their proximity.
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I don't think there is any doubt that the synergy with a Google services, which do track, is part of the basic business proposition of Fiber for Google. Given that, exactly where the tracking happens is an implementation detail. The end result is that for most customers, the $70 price point is subsidized by tracking.
There WAS a window, but I think it's closed already though. Google Docs and a host of Office-compatible Android/iOS apps made a go at it, and they made headway for a while. But Microsoft went ahead and made web and Android/iOS versions of Office that are at least as good as Google Docs and the various Office for Android apps I've seen, with far better Office compatibility than anyone else can offer (since they're running the same code as desktop Office under the hood).

Meanwhile LibreOffice is fighting the last war, with a thick desktop client using some custom cross-platform GUI toolkit that looks native on exactly nothing, no web app version and no real effort on mobile[1]. And it's fighting the last war badly at that -- not even people who write articles about switching to LibreOffice can actually switch to LibreOffice because they keep Word around for compatibility with everyone else in the world. Calc versus Excel is in even worse shape than Writer versus Word.

1) There IS an Android version of OpenOffice:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collabora....

It's read-only and the UI is... subpar, however.
This guy single-handedly created a brand new and widely abused way for governments to censor the internet. And your reaction is to feel sorry for him? Anyone with the slightest respect for free speech and freedom of expression should have a vendetta against him.

Fuck him.
Especially when those sort of numbers might be used to justify the price of advertising on the platform.

That said, I wouldn't say that it's in their BEST interest– too much spam and real users start getting turned off. So spam up-to-a-point.
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> This is exactly why a lot of people want to do a start up, or at least start a side project that solves a specific problem. You get to to be the expert in that domain, and in order to get the complete product out, you need to be a generalist.

Hm, funny thing you mentioned startups. Apart programming related startups, I don't think that startup-ers are "great programmers". I get the feeling that most startup programmers (not all of them, but most of them) are somewhere between average and novice level.

I get the feeling that most "great programmers" are not that interested in startup (making money, living the thrill or whatever).

Most famous programmers, work in big corps for medium-to-huge salaries and (most of the times) even getting paid to work on their side-projects (Dropbox pays G.V. Rossum for Python-dev, Heroku pays Matz for Ruby-dev, etc.).
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Let's say you compute how distant/similar two concepts are. Then what? You update a link on Wikipedia?
There are no "rules" against it. YikYak isn't the federal government, and it has no such obligation to protect your free speech on its platform. If YikYak wanted to soft-censor -- or even hard-censor -- any mentions of the words "potato," or "HBO," or "Facebook," or "America," or what have you, it could do so.

That said, it's a shady thing to do, and while not illegal, it's certainly generating controversy and bad publicity. Time will tell if users vote with their phones against it. That's the recourse here: not the law per se, but the market.

Now, this would be a different story if YikYak had an overwhelming share of the market, and the DoJ were to view something like this as anticompetitive. But YikYak isn't a putative monopolist in the chat space. At least not at the moment.
I outsource some of my translation work on oDesk and ask that all of the work be done with OpenOffice. Many already have it but some need to install it. If everyone works like this, we'll have a lot more people using Open Office.
I imagine it can cause problems with ABI compatibility.

I think Jonathan Blow mentioned some kind of language-level support for structure packing in the language he's designing.
Yes, I misuse "power user" to mean "someone who reads the fine manual" or "someone who does a websearch to learn about nice features".
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This clearly states that the cost for a replacement 85kW battery will be $12,000.

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/2013-model-s-price-increase

"We have received many requests for a Battery Replacement Option. We are happy to now offer this option for all three battery variants. This option will provide you a new battery anytime after the end of the eighth year at a fixed price. Prices are as follows: $8,000 for the 40 kWh battery, $10,000 for the 60 kWh battery, and $12,000 for the 85 kWh battery. You will be able to purchase this additional option through your MyTesla page in the near future."

I can't imagine that they would raise the price by 4 times. Where is the source for the $44,000 listed on the article you mentioned?

If there are 7,000 18650 batteries in a Tesla S battery pack and it's reasonable to assume that Tesla can produce (Gigafactory) these for $1 then the $12,000 seems perfectly reasonable. The current estimate for the cost of 18650s for Tesla is less than $2.

It's already been stated that the cost of a battery pack is less than a quarter the cost of the car, so the $44,000 is nothing but false. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516961/how-tesla-is-dri...
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You might enjoy mapequation.org

The methods used there are awesome! Also, open source with a great website.
There is also a paper published with technical details at http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02766. They are using Spatial Pyramid Pooling like the Microsoft Deep Learning group out of China combined with a sliding window evaluation over the input images. Looks like we finally have an approach that does well on occluded and rotated faces. That is something that Viola-Jones does quite poorly, so its quite an exciting advance.
+1 for micropreneur.com. & microconf ( microconf.com/videos-2014.html) also see Rob and Mike's podcast at http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
And presumably the next star's own Oort cloud goes halfway to us, meeting ours in the middle?

I remember some people a while back playing with the idea that the practical way for humanity to colonize the stars was by very gradually "rock-hopping through the Oort cloud", as opposed to "One Giant Leap" approaches like generation ships or crossing our fingers and desperately hoping for hyperdrive.
See my other comment to your first post. What you posted was, ironically, the exact opposite of what Coast was trying to show.

To be fair, however, yours is a mistake than many, many people have made -- including some very successful economists.
^to take that a step further, the marketer shouldn't respond with "try product X", but with further inquiry into the nature of the problem! I've initiated contact with people that way and subsequently built lasting relationships with them.
Add OPTIONS_UNSET=gnome to /etc/make.conf, plus whatever other options you want excluded system-wide. Ditto OPTIONS_SET. You can override for specific ports with ${PORTNAME}_SET/_UNSET too.
How can this man, and everyone else, be guaranteed the ability to change somebody else's pages to ensure they're no longer indexed by search engines that explicitly dishonor the spirit and purpose of instructions not to crawl pages?

IF that was ever viable the EU wouldn't have forced a solution.

https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/robots-txt-remove-url/
I play the piano and the guitar and I am great at pronunciation (Italian, French, German) but I have miserable word recall and I can barely hold a conversation in these languages. I would definitely say this is true.
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Any suggestions for a way to poison the data. Say an autobrowser that could generate traffic to obscure your actual traffic?

Any other ideas?
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I had never heard of Yik Yak until today (and the mentioned competitors). I tried Yik Yak out, 5 minutes after it was deleted.

I can't express how disgusted I am by the contents/comments within the app. It's full of hate speech, insults, sexism, etc. I find really disturbing that these sort of apps get vc money, really disturbing.
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We share the same viewpoint. When I meant long-run I meant in terms of seasons, not in terms of episodes per season (e.g. Dr. Who).

The US corporate pressure to produce is definitely the problem. There is little counterbalance in the US, whereas in the UK the BBC allows writers like Ianucci freedom to do what they feel is right.
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From their description I'm guessing Northeast Minneapolis. It is an old blue-collar area currently being revived, and has quite a few older 3-story houses.

A lot of the old warehouse buildings have been gutted and renovated, turned into office spaces, breweries, lofts, restaurants, and coffee shops. Its also considered the arts district of Minneapolis.

I think the crime used to be worse than it currently is, but I'm not certain of that. I started working in the area a few years ago, and I haven't witnessed anything unpleasant. It feels quite safe here.

If you go across the river to North Minneapolis, you'll run into a rougher neighborhood with bars on windows and stuff like that. But even then I've heard things are improving over there too.
It's not quite that loose. Order of elements is guaranteed, same as any other structure members, and packing is guaranteed if the members fit. Whether bit fields can cross word boundaries, and endianness, are implementation defined, so bit fields are still not usable where there's any interoperability constraint.
I posted "Time to fade away unseen" got -2 downvotes exactly at 60 seconds.
You seem to have missed the whole section in the article that begins: "While reordering by size is the simplest way to eliminate slop, it’s not necessarily the right thing."
You're correct, and I'm aware that the point is that transaction costs exists and that you want the law to allocate rights by default to the least cost avoiders. However, it is a very valuable insight that, on the first order, allocation doesn't matter.

It's also interesting to notice that the Internet and IT in general is lowering transaction costs and pushing us further into a Coasian world.
At least for some features like pinch-to-zoom they included very clear examples in the massive ad campaigns. I don't remember seeing this feature in an ad but it wouldn't surprise me. At least it's on this page https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/design/