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Egon Bahr (former prime minister) and Willi Brand (former chancellor) are reliable sources for the Kanzerakte.

US barracks are extraterritoriality zones, and US soldiers are not under German jurisdiction.

And better read the 2+4 itself, and not 3rd party writeups like Wikipedia.
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These are images. Not ads. Videos that autoplay when you are scrolling down the page and your mouse accidentally moves over them.
The idea behind SendFlare is exactly what you mentioned, gaining information on your customers and possibly “know” them, as you said through statistics. One way SendFlare differentiates, is through providing many ways for users to download your content, such as Twitter Post, Following you on Twitter, Joining a mailing list or pay for it. I have a plan to generate stats on the followers/customers through social feeds (since we already know “who” the customers are).
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I am not a data viz designer, but I've read VDoQI and I enjoy following the field as a lay person. I build a lot of charts but I don't design them. A lot of my clients have philistine data viz taste--and many of their graphic designers too, even the ones whose graphic design taste is good. By Tufte's criterion of information density, their ideas are a total failure: streetlights, speedometer-like gauges, etc. But often they just don't have that many numbers to show, or the numbers have few dimensions. Maybe in that case Tufte would recommend a plain old table, but that isn't always helpful for "at a glance" reading, especially if there is a lot of non-numeric data too. I'm starting to think that Tufte is really excellent inspiration when you have a "hard" data viz problem, but he might lead you astray when you have an easy one. His crusade against chart junk is probably relevant any time though. :-) Anyway, I'm usually just the implementer, so I'm curious what real professionals thing about all that.
Interesting that you're getting downvoted here...

I do like and support SpaceX, but they sure seem to have an impressive PR machine also. They seem to get a lot more buzz and press than every other space company combined. Maybe it's a Silicon Valley-inspired tradition of working with and courting the press, as opposed to a more secrecy-focused environment in companies that mostly do military contracting?
Is there a website like http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/ for this? pg-versus-my.com?
As a teenager: yes. I am working through microcorruption right now and loving it. Starfighter is vey exciting. Thank you
So, yes, but in a more general way than you're describing. It's more like "Uber will displace car ownership, and the automobile industry is worth at least a $trillion, so $40B is actually undervaluing Uber", and then if it turns out that Uber doesn't actually displace car ownership the whole valuation equation falls apart. Or sometimes it's using assumptions in places where they don't hold, eg. "Google makes $X per search result shown, and Facebook has more pageviews than Google, therefore Facebook should be worth more than Google" even though people search when they're further down the purchasing funnel than looking at social media and so search clicks are often worth a lot more.

Anyway, capitalism is naturally self-correcting in this regard. People who build their businesses on invalid assumptions go out of business; what's left are the people whose assumptions turned out to be right. All bubbles eventually pop. A lot of people view bubbles as a bad thing, but they're really part of the normal operation of capitalism. If you believe that somebody else is being an idiot, take the other side of the trade.
I've looked over the report, and the only thing I can say on it is that it has no basis in reality, it simply makes narrative-supporting statements and uses disingenuous context-removed statistics to support those statements.

I'd encourage everyone to look into the details, and verify them with reason, instead of wholly accepting the government's and media's narrative and spin.

For example, the report and media claim this:

"Ferguson an apartheid police state: 3 out of 4 residents have open arrest warrants"

Except it seems like the majority of those arrest warrants are for people who where highway driving passing though Ferguson, do not live in the Ferguson municipality, are from a greater area with a much much larger population, and a few of them forgot to show up or pay the fine. So they got a bench warrant (which do not expire).

So this headline might be a blatant lie.
I believe I normally hear "c p p" when referencing C++ files (including in aggregate possibly referencing headers), but "c plus plus" when talking about the language proper, the standard, compilers, etc.
> you do need to be on one side or the other

binary, black and white thinking.
It's not the language, it's the programmers (and the lack of proper/regular code review).
You're willing to pay for the ability to not pay for tasks that you need to hire experts for?

Besides the obvious "paying to not pay", this already exists. Take a class to learn the basics of these jobs. Home Depot has classes like this all of the time, and I'm pretty sure they're free.

If you're lucky, you'll save some money. If you're not, you'll learn that you pay these professionals for their experience, not their basic knowledge. And you'll know how to correctly describe what you screwed up before you called them.

I'm a fix-it myself kind of guy, and the most valuable thing I know is how to tell when I need a pro. I did replace an ignitor on my furnace based on watching a youtube video once, which I was proud of. It was simpler than I expected.
Out of curiosity, who pays more -- the attacker or the victim? Purely from a monetary perspective.

Edit: never mind, figured it's obvious.

Aren't DDoS requests pretty much simple GET requests? Is it not possible to determine which requests to serve and which ones to ignore?
I think this is a very interesting and important question and is very similar to one that I've considered a number of times without any real answer.

My question boils down to "can we trust compound knowledge". I'm defining compound knowledge as knowledge that builds on other knowledge. It's kind of like proofs in math, once you have learned a proof you often learn a shortcut for that proof that might not make a ton of sense at a glance and almost like "magic". Similar to using libraries that "just work", someone already figured out the hard stuff and they've abstracted it so you can easily use the concepts at a high level.

Things like frameworks are amazing tools and give 1000's (and often many more) man-hours of work for free. However just like math proofs if you don't understand what it's doing under the hood you can get tripped up when you try to do something that "looks" like it should work but actually doesn't.

I'm not advocating that we all must know what every library we use does under the hood, for most higher-level languages JS/PHP/Python/Ruby/etc this would be impossible (not just knowing what, for example, a php library does with PHP but what's happening in C to make that happen, you can take that even further and go down to machine code). We have to make some assumptions but I don't think/know if there is a hard line on how low we need to go.

Personally I stay as high level as I can until there is an issue then I will dig deeper, I'm sure there is a whole spectrum of developers ranging from ones like me to ones that read every line of a library before they include it in their project.

I don't have the answers, like I said this is something I think about a lot. Take a look at the NodeJS/npm ecosystem, you can easily see when you run 'npm install' that you are installing Library A that makes use of Library B and C which makes use of Library D and E.... So on and so forth. It's one of the best things about OS software development, you can build on what already exists instead of always re-inventing the wheel. But that comes at the cost of having to make assumptions about the code you are using. I always worry that I'm building a house of cards that will come tumbling down and even worse if it all comes tumbling down in a library I use so it's not as easy for me to fix it directly.

Again, I don't have any answers, this is just me rambling about a concept I bat around in my head all the time.
You might be right, but the social skills you've described don't sound all that valuable to either the firm or society as a whole. We would benefit from a model for the organization of investment that doesn't promote these particular individuals to the top.
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A word which, fittingly, itself starts with a plosive.
Yes, but there are some limitations when doing server side sharing of documents without a central trusted authority.

It's dangerous to accept shares from untrusted sources as it exposes you to attacks by malicious servers colluding or impersonating a user.

Without using Oblivious RAM you risk losing query privacy, when indexing documents that consist of one word repeated many times.
They must be sequestering a lot of carbon in all those cardboard boxes :)
Do you think they've displaced a significant amount of savings?

(They've displaced things like pension programs, but those are even less flexible)
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Great advice and thank you very much for posting. Luckily I've had the privilege of work from home since I started my career, so I've adapted a lot to not being in the office, but you're right - get a sweet office, separate space, and remind myself to take regular breaks.

Thanks again!
I've heard very good things about Prolexic while interviewing
One platform parties are pretty ineffective inside the USA. The only I could think of getting any significant legislation passed are the anti-abortion people. The anti-deficit people and anti-war people have large following, but little traction.
It's the title of the blog post that's being linked to. With that title being transplanted to HN, you need to consciously think about what the context is supposed to be, which is why HN lists the source domain.
I run a consultancy of about 15 including myself. We use a combo of Ventrilo (http://ventrilo.com) and Slack. I'd make a bet that our productivity and communication is better than 99% of any company.

Alternatives to Ventrilo (just my personal preference, really), includes Mumble and Teamspeak. Everyone is required to have a push-to-talk key, too. We give everyone their own office (a la dedicated channel for them), and have some scripts built into that allow us to page another user and tell them we need their attention.
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Yeah there might've been a smidge of sarcasm in there
Yes, there is. Get heavy curtains and let your eyes fully adapt to the dark every evening before you go to sleep.
Bench-marketing aside, I guess nobody ever expected MongoDB to outperform Couchbase. It's strengths are elsewhere, like the query language, secondary indexes and document model.
> I was taking the product of the process of subdividing to not actually include the limit points at all.

That's not correct. The limit point is "the product of the process of subdividing", by definition.

> You are only performing the operation a countable number of times, and at each point you only add a finite number of points, so having an uncountable set pop out at the end seems unlikely.

By this reasoning, the limit point of every sequence of rational numbers would be a rational number, and the set of all such limit points would be countable. But it isn't; it's the set of reals, which is uncountable.
Having worked on an applicant testing and tracking system in the past, it was a decent business case to operate because a single company has a job type with 100's of openings and high attrition so it helped screen people. In that case it is self-serving and you know if someone is applying twice (SS Number or other identifier) to try and ace the test.

If Starfighter is open, there are people out there that will try to game the system ("game the game" doesn't sound right.) If someone wants to be a level 50 app_coder, they could have a pre-made sequence to follow to do that. Much like in a MMORPG where you have helpers level up a character or a "mule" for hand-me-downs.

Interviewing candidates last year showed no hesitation on their part to share info with each other or their recruiters. How will Starfighter prevent player "cheating" or knowing the route to leveling? How will content be updated or dynamic?

This is a promising thing for software geeks in general, can't wait to try it out. I started playing Microcorruption and if this is similar to that, it will be fun.
For those with a trade-in - my uncle, a former car salesman, adds this:

"Pick out a car, negotiate your best price, take your time. The day you're supposed to pick it up, call them up and say, "I thought my vehicle was worth more, I think it's worth $1000 more."

In their mind, that car is sold, the manager counted it, the salesperson is counting their commission already, and the minute you turn it around on them, they will not let that sale go. If they can give you another $500, trust me - they'll do it."
Few and far between, maybe 1% of 1% of 1%... but they're out there. So, one or two kids in every district, or a 10% chance of one kid in any one school. Where'd I get these stats? Thin air.

http://www.ebony.com/career-finance/mos-bows-bowties-099#axz...
If you tell people you changed name, you could keep the reputation?
"Some innovators are not rent-seekers" does not imply "No innovator is a rent-seeker" or even "Most innovators are not rent-seekers".

This is an argument about distributions, and you've provided a (very funny) datapoint that tells us almost nothing about the distributions, and which most of us were already aware of.

The interesting question is: how much innovation and investment is going into rent-seeking vs building new products people actually want?

There has been an argument from at least the 90's that rent-seeking was impeding innovation in technology. When Microsoft was the dominant force in tech the joke was that you couldn't start a company that would be the next Microsoft, but you could start a company that would get bought and just down by Microsoft to preempt any competitive threat, and that was just as good a way to get rich as building the next Microsoft.

History didn't work out quite the way the advocates of that argument predicted, and it is unlikely to do so this time.
It's easier to vilify a person than it is to vilify a nation. And I suppose Putin being, well, Putin, makes it even more convenient.
It sounds like you've defined rent == profit, which suggests you need to adjust your definition of rent.

Economic rent is hard to wrap your head around; I defer to the Wiki:

In classical economics, economic rent is any payment made (including imputed value) or benefit received for non-produced inputs such as location (land) and for assets formed by creating official privilege over natural opportunities (e.g., patents)

In neoclassical economics, economic rent also includes income gained by beneficiaries of other contrived exclusivity...

In layman's terms I think it could be described as income for having/being rather than income for making/doing.
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Absolutely, no, but the interesting question is whether we can trust them as much as or more than stuff we roll ourselves.
No, we can't. And no, we don't have a choice to trust them anyway.

And what's the alternative? Write everything yourself? Besides investing a lot more work and time for the same functionality of your end-user software, you're still stuck with code that may be broken, contains bugs or security problems.
"Fontawesome users icon partner with us". That's four nouns in a row - what does this sentence actually mean?

Edit: Oh, "Fontawesome users icon" is alt-text for an image that didn't load, and the button text is just "Partner with us". Got it.
The attackers typically have a botnet at their disposal. The victim has to pay their own costs.
Thanks! I agree completely. We'll implement that soon - I'll reply back here once it's fixed/deployed
Post the IP addresses from which you're getting attacked. Others can analyze them by ISP, and public pressure on the worst ISPs might help.
This is the exact opposite of my interactions with Akamai.
Those prices are amazing. Do you know how the quality level compares?
^^^right on!^^^
I agree.

Where the Rpi<>Arduino combo comes in is where you need PWM and analog inputs in an easy form factor. Arduino talks to RPi over USB serial, and is easy to script. The Arduino can be the controller interface while logic can be done on the RPi.

Also if you're doing computation expensive things (like using Arduino to pick up EEG data), the CPU on an Arduino is sufficient in ferrying the data to a faster CPU.
Clickable: https://www.google.com/search?q=Inside+the+U.S.+Antitrust+Pr...
> because first past the post is a fundamentally broken model of democracy that always reduces into a base case of two parties

You've ran the experiment so many times that you know that it's "always"?
It requires energy - plants use photosynthesis to harness sunlight, and then use the carbon to build more of themselves, a great positive feedback loop. We have no current technology that has anywhere near the ability to be as net-carbon negative as a plant

Now, if we had something like insanely-cheap fusion power, this would probably be a solvable problem. Otherwise I think some serious advances in nanotech would be required - you're talking about needing to pull 32.3 billion metric tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere per year just to offset our current emissions, much less pull the atmospheric ppm down from the dangerously high (and likely unstable) spot it's already at.

tl;dr the problem isn't getting carbon out of the atmosphere, the problem is being net-carbon for the entire process lifecycle while doing it
>There are 18 loci on 15 chromosomes that are associated with myopia. Carriers of these genes are 10x as likely to have myopia.

That is pathological myopia. Most myopia is not pathological myopia and is not inherited. (did you even read the article?) The site is bullshit, but so is your comment.
This is very cool. Thanks for doing this. I looked through Streak's code several few months ago while noodling with my own Gmail extension idea and the crazy hacks required just to get the thread id is amazing. By "we're really close to opening it up to anyone" do you mean the info on the site I found (http://www.inboxsdk.com/docs/) is going to be invalidated?
It knows the ordering of the encrypted data, but it doesn't know what the data is.
By default do you mean they want to stop paying back interest on loans they already made? As in "get a free slate" to start off again, yes?

#Edit. It's just a question, people. I'm trying to figure out what default means in this whole Greece context.
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don't worry, i'm sure that we'll be able to just put it all back together again.
I recall for out PhD written exams we were allowed on leter-size cheat sheet.

The irony is the act of compiling such a sheet meant you temporarily memorized the information on the sheet and didnt really need the sheet.
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Do you mean "farming" in terms of a large-scale farm where you make your living selling produce or in terms of subsistence farming for your own consumption (what some might call "gardening")?

Also, do apps like eat24hours, grubhub and seamlessweb have sushi delivery available?
Sure do. I'v reviewed them over at crankylinuxuser.wordpress.com , my blog.

Tl;dr: They're worth it. Well worth it.

And you with the CH340 serial driver, you won't be FTDIcked around.
Someone from the top 5% is more likely to hold their a wealth in equities, then the Average Joe from of the 50%. The top percentiles may be paid more, but they are likely to make far more in the long term on their investments anyways.

In this sense inequality is unavoidable fact of life. Much the same as some people are gifted with genes making them more likely winners in a long distance running contest. Unequal but hardly unfair as long as a fulfilling life is possible regardless of such deficiencies. The problem should be phrased in terms of opportunities and social mobility, instead of inequality.
> Manual memory management isn't dangerous, malloc and low level primitives are

That is somewhat self-contradictory. Those "low level primitives" are manual memory management, so even by your own admission it is dangerous. Even Wikipedia calls smart pointers "automatic memory management."
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As a programmer, you will participate in the full cycle of development, from definition of needs to start of production. You will work in collaboration with experienced instructional designers to reinvent the learning experience.

Scolab is an educational technology company (#edtech). Buzzmath, its flagship application, has helped more than 200,000 students last year to develop their mathematical competencies.

See full description (in French):
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>Doesn't matter. They are the set of all subsets of a countably infinite set (the set of rationals of the form k / 2^n in the 2d example), and any such set of subsets is uncountable. There is a theorem in set theory to this effect.

They are not the set of all subsets. Not even close. Each pixel is a very particular kind of contiguous subset. You can describe it with one or two rationals (Edit: two or four for 2D).

"Set of all subsets" requires the ability to either include or not include an infinite number of elements independently.

It's obvious that the sets {1,2,3}, {5,6,7}, {9,10,11}, etc. are countable, right? It's a list of subsets of integers but not all subsets.

>How? Your construction above does not show that.

The pixels are defined by their borders, the algorithm for outputting all borders looks like this:

print 0
print 1
d = 2
loop:
n = 1
while n < d:
print (n / d)
n += 2
d *= 2

This constructs all the pixels nice and rationally. Rational numbers are dense, and there are no irrational pixels.
Command-line ssh & scp would be awesome. Also something like wget/curl. In general for TCP/IP there is still just almost nothing.
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I'm about 40. Do you realize that people have been heralding nanotechnology as the solution to all these problems since I was 17? Same goes for fusion. I remember reading in Scientific American that fusion was just a few years off. that was over 20 years ago.
If you don't include it when discussing any vaguely law-related matter, Internet Tough Guys will be quick to call you out for "practicing law without a license". [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9088475
Nonsense. Stop hemorrhaging $ first.
you didn't read the author's definition of rent, which was more technical than "rent-seeking". For example, if you self-publish an ebook for $49, nearly 100% of that would be considered rent by the author. Read his definition carefully.
To the extent that we can trust our testing methods of those libraries.
I spent a few weeks this past fall trying to configure spamassassin to be useful, but I was getting up to 30 pieces of spam a day and it was getting obnoxious. I configured my setup to use greylisting and it wound up being significantly more effective. I get maybe one piece of junk a week.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixGreylisting
They couldn't wait a day?

http://gizmodo.com/china-finally-admits-it-has-an-army-of-ha...
Yes, vision loss. Their eyebals elongate so much that it rips away the retina.
Child support is a very small part of a rich man's wealth. It will not diffuse in any noticeable way.