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Side note: clicking on the download button on that page reveals the EULA which the user must accept before downloading. I agree that the support agent probably shouldn't have responded "lol", but Google's download page is up to their own requirements.
Well, I for one would be genuinely interested in how someone working in a field that I personally (and many with me) do find morally reprehensive (whether it be gambling, drugs, weapons, fossile fuels...) think about their role in the big picture. Do they have good arguments that I fail to see, do they not care/think too much about it, does the salary/benefits trumph any moral qualm, do they not have any other choice, etc. If you don't want to discuss it, that is fine, just pointing out that the original poster's question might not be fully rhetorical.
I get your reasoning on not wanting to change accounting systems multiple times. But let me say, choose what will work for now, and say the next ~12-18 months (longer is great, but I wouldn't try to predict it). Don't try to look beyond that because you are just wasting cycles on something that will likely need to change even if you think you know what you will need for the next 5 years.

I see 10-20M a year businesses still on Quickbooks and doing ok with it, although most have some custom reporting or solutions added on for things like shipping, manufacturing etc. But moving to a NetSuite, Oracle, SAP etc type product is a lot for a startup to manage. You are looking at a minimum of a 3-6 month implementation for one of those enterprise level systems in which time you might change things considerably and spending the $50-100k+ on that is likely not the best use of funds early on.

I could be totally wrong as every situation is different, but I'd either stay with QB as long as possible or pick something reasonably simple that does not require implementation consultants to spend 2-4 months evaluating, configuring and making things work. Now if you are into your Series A or have real revenue and a CFO etc, then my advice would likely be different.

As for options, depending on what you need, Xero, Quickbooks, NetSuite, SAP, Sage (Sage 100) etc. I'd outsource payroll to ADP or someone similar (PayChex etc), simply because it makes life far easier and the cost is fairly minimal.
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If you like this sort of thing, don't miss Andrew Plotkin's procedural soundscape generator, Boodler; the one-hour summer storm is particularly epic. (Pocket Storm is also now available as a standalone iThing app.)

It's at http://boodler.org/.
I just checked the Chrome desktop[0] and Android SDK[1] download pages, and both do follow the guidelines - clicking on the download button reveals the EULA which the user must agree to prior to downloading the software.

[0]: https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/desktop/

[1]: https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
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That's exactly what he says, he agrees with you and just offers a suggestion on how to improve the script.
A great example of Google "Do as I say, not as I do."

Re "How do I uninstall this?" Google Cloud Print appeared to be, at least on Win XP a couple of years ago and when set up to share a non-Cloud-Print-native printer, a one-way process. That borked non-Cloud printing (how the printer used to work; functionality that was desired to continue) pretty thoroughly.

I like a lot of things about Google and their products. However, lack of communication on topics such as these more than borders on arrogance.

P.S. OT, but: And where is Lolipop for my 2013 Moto-X (then a Google product) from Verizon. I bought it in good part because, unlike other Verizon mobile products, timely updates were "promised" strongly as part of the marketing and promotion. (And yeah, I need Verizon for specific reasons...)

Now? Bupkiss. With the better part of a year left on my two-year contract (that I entered hesitantly but again, at least with this "promise" as some comfort/reassurance).

Google is enormously selective in their "support" and not infrequently refuses to go out of their way when it does not support the initiative du jour.

(E.g. but not only nor primarily, insisting the pressure stay on Verizon to apply these updates.)
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Which doesn't make sense to me, given that:

A) We already educate people about addictive behaviors, and it's not that effective, and

B) If you're going to allow potentially-addictive gambling at all, you probably want to do it in a way such that people must overcome a major barrier to engage in it, like a plane flight or a long drive, which is already accomplished by the centralization of gambling in Las Vegas.

So, the gaudy money-hungry casinos in the middle of nowhere are a lot closer to the ideal gods-eye-view casino than Scott Alexander suggests.

(Not to mention the ecosystem around entertainment there that has produced positive-sum results like magic shows and boxing matches.)
I don't think it makes sense to compare abstract geometric flags with flags based on seals. Yes, geometric flags have elements that can be easy to recognize even when adapted. I think the Maryland flag is a good example that even if a flag is re-mixable and easy to recognize, it can still be hideous. Pink polka-dots on blue-green plaid would be versatile and recognizable too.

Flags based on seals aren't meant to be hung from coffee shops. They are meant to be displayed and viewed up close so you can see the detail. And in this genre I think Virginia's is best. It's got violence, nudity, and awesome latin phrases: Sic sempre tyrannis - "Thus always to tyrants". What more could you want?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_and_seal_of_Virginia#/med...
There are a few answers in the FAQ around this: (none specifically answering the "easy" part): http://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/

My own experiences of working with Amazon services suggest that this will probably be great for some use-cases and very complex and unpleasant for others, and will probably be updated every six or twelve months in a fairly drastic way which will make it hard to find helpful documentation. Maybe I'm just feeling cynical today, though.
Come on, you chose to leave a comment here and in the context of the article it's hardly surprising that people would ask you questions about it.
That and the fact that Apple just doesn't seem to care much about 3D support... the 3D stack is about 3 years out of date now, GPU drivers as well (and nVidia etc. can't update them). Yosemite had NO updates to the GPU drivers or OpenGL support at all and currently it's still about 20-30% slower on the same hardware compared to Windows.

If I'm a bit cynical, Apple is deliberately refusing updates just so they'll be able to tout huge 20% performance improvement of their proprietary Metal when they bring it to OS X.
> I have noticed something: philosophers and analytical minds seem unhappy, religious minds seem just accepting, and those who "do not appear" very intelligent are having a freaking good time in life.

Which begs the question: who really are the smart ones? :-)

Smarter people might have a tendency, more than others, to brood and worry over existential questions and matters that happen to be depressing. But worrying about things that are out of their small hands isn't exactly productive, or smart.
A platform that uses consecutive app ids which are pure integers and which you can actually crash (as in, service returns {error: "INTERNAL_ERROR"} if you provide an app id > INT64_MAX ) isn't really trustworthy from my point of view...
Ah, that's right. I'll edit, thanks for the correction
Please, I know half a dozen economics students who have no idea whatsoever as to what job they can possibly get when they graduate...
We also keep it legal because prohibition would cause more harms and would lower us as a people for making a victimless activity outlaw'd.

If gambling was outlawed, gamblers & casino owners would find other ways. A fool and his money.

(Also if gambling was outlawed, where the fuck would we get VC money from?)
I found that the best way to contribute to wikipedia is from multiple IPs without logging in. Otherwise some troll could delete the entire history of your edits with some wacky explanation.
All of those limits are typically to protect users from being over charged if they fat-finger something. Most limits like that can be lifted with a support ticket. I'm not sure if this is one of them but I think it's likely.
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Pretty sure this is just https://maroslaw.github.io/rainyday.js/
I find it telling that you've given an in-depth argument to something that is basically inconsequential but are afraid to actually address the topic at hand.

Also, please spare us the Tumblr level "do better," unless of course you "can't even."
They probably don't but who knows. However, now they can move forward and away from their former POS partner.
You're completely correct, and it's unfortunate that you're being downvoted. I'm guessing this is due to idiots who have never used Windows on a Mac laptop and think they know more than they do.
"Wikipedia's administration is far from perfect, but you have to give them one thing: the amount of vandalism they've had to deal with is of historical proportions."

Simple vandalism is more or less under control. Areas of high controversy (abortion, Israel/Palestine issues) are a huge headache, and much of Wikipedia's bureaucracy spends time dealing with those issues. In between those extremes are attempts to use Wikipedia as a promotional medium.

Wikipedia doesn't allow advertising. A lot of people don't get that. I sometimes take on tasks from the Wikipedia conflict of interest noticeboard. This is usually someone trying to promote their band/DJ/company/product, or themself. Most of those are routine, but sometimes it gets out of hand.

There are at least three wealthy convicted criminals who have PR people trying to erase, or at least gloss over, their history on Wikipedia. There's a company with a sketchy financial product that set up a massive effort to delete their regulatory and legal problems from Wikipedia. There are several companies which don't like prominent mentions of their product recalls. There are many consumer product companies who try to push their marketing pitch onto Wikipedia, and don't like that their pitch is turned into a cold discussion of their history, mergers, finances, and problems.

Without the Wikipedia bureaucracy to push back against that tide of paid promotion, Wikipedia would look like the happy news world of ads and PR Newswire.
Or you could just press start and open the snipping tool
After their weeklong "penetration test" concluded, I found some serious XSS (public user->admin, which could easily turn into system takeover) with about 5 minutes of looking. Are most audits this useless?

Hiya! I started at Matasano/NCC back in February. Part of the reason I joined was to find out whether or not everything tptacek has been saying for years is true. Turns out it's pretty much all true. Some of that is awesome, like the hiring process. Some of that is scary, like the fact that someone of moderate skill level can usually break into most production apps.

My experience is limited. That said, put me on an audit and the first thing I'll check for is XSS and SQLi. The second thing I'll check for is authz: log into an admin account, note a URL to perform an admin action, log in as a normal user, try to access that URL. Third thing I'll check for is if there are any upload forms, because that's a common way to get RCE: upload a file and try to trick the app into executing it. Etc. Stuff that matters.

It's a point of pride to ensure that our assigned app has been pentested thoroughly by the conclusion of an audit. A thorough pentest doesn't necessarily mean finding every possible vulnerability, because time is often limited, but it does mean finding the serious ones.

If we include any findings in the final report which could be called "trivial" (there are occasionally some), they're marked as informational findings, i.e. their severity level is less than low. The reason we include them is because even though the finding doesn't necessarily pose any security risk, a client will often get another pentest from another security firm and diff the results. If the other firm points out something we thought was too trivial to include, the client will rightfully ask why we didn't find it. (We try to be pretty clear in the report about each finding, though, so you're not going to come away with the impression that we're saying you need to address something trivial.)

I don't know enough about your experience with that security firm you worked with to comment directly, but communication is one of the most important aspects of the job. If we find some flaws but don't communicate well to the client, then nobody was served by the audit. So if you're feeling like the whole process was a waste of time, you might want to shop around. There are several good security firms, not just Matasano/NCC, so you may want to give it another shot.

For what it's worth, the fact that you had a bad experience with one of the firms is actually painful to me. It's only recently that people started to care about security in a significant way, and it's a tenuous position. The more people who get a "security audit" and end up feeling like it was a waste of time, the more likely we are to end up back in a situation where people know there are probably serious security problems but feel like there's nothing they can do to find or fix them. There is: Give us a test environment and two weeks. We'll find what matters, and we'll give you a report explaining each issue and how to fix them.
You mean that the factory that was building the Arduinos just took over the brand?
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This is a surprisingly simple technique for multiscopic display, a back-to-basics approach that relies of the existence of extremely small or concentrated projectors. This research is from 2011, but like most multiscopy research, it's actually pretty far out into the future.

It's interesting to consider how such displays would require a different approach to video creation and viewing. Notably, how many viewers can share one display? A single viewer with a television-sized display will experience immersive stereoscopy. The video can be prepared as a window, and incite the viewer to lean left and right to get different perspectives. As you add more viewers, the display's multiscopy becomes less and less interesting, though I imagine it can remain so, in the same way that theater has more dimensionality than cinema.

Also a semantic nitpick: in the overview they call it "autostereoscopic" but I think "automultiscopic" is more explicit, and used in existing literature [1]. The reasoning is that, for example, a creature with more than two eyes would still get a different perspective for each eye, so there's nothing inherently "stereo" about the display.

[1]: http://web.media.mit.edu/~mhirsch/hr3d/taxonomy.png (from http://web.media.mit.edu/~mhirsch/hr3d/)
You can get some idea of what its like to be in politics through watching C-SPAN or reading news accounts of high-profile political struggles or watching fictional accounts like the West Wing. The life of actors is often meticulously charted out by the public consciousness just because many people have such tremendous interest in celebrity actors. I'm not saying that its only STEM fields to which this applies, but it certainly doesn't apply to everything.
There isn't any good reason why an online encyclopedia would have such a massive gender imbalance. The fact that this is the case points at deep problems in the community.
Oh man, as a southerner stuck in California, I cannot tell you how much I miss rain. And especially thunderstorms[1].

(if you want a few recommendations) I love how the drops wipe away the moisture on the "window"; in my experience the droplets won't fall perfectly straight: they get perturbed by the smaller droplets on the window (what they're wiping away). Subsequent drops in the "tracks" left by earlier drops will fall faster, since there aren't any smaller droplets to hold them up. They also speed up as they get bigger, and wind will cause them to move together.

Can I get a thunderstorm?

Also, thank you — I'd long forgotten the name of the song and the artist; I'd been looking for "Primavera" by Ludovico Einaudi [2] for a while now. (another Ludovico Einaudi piece was on the page)

[1] I would have never guessed that a place "couldn't" have thunderstorms; I've been in Silicon Valley for four years now, and there's been barely anything that passes for a thunderstorm. (For anyone in the bay area going "we have thunderstorms, sometimes!"… it isn't the same.)

I've occasionally wondered if people in the south aren't more religious because the weather (the south has thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, the bay area has… lots of sun.) isn't literally putting the fear of God in them.

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxFAT581T4
Yes, all mathematical niceties don't matter if MMSE estimation is not a good estimation in practice. This is the reason Gauss invented MMSE in the first place along with the eponymous distribution, while working with astronomical observations iirc.
Thanks for the links! If my executable relies on .so files in a lib directory, is it possible to set env variables to point to a local path?
But if your phone is in his hands, can't he press OK? Still, the bionic angle is unneeded here, he can just put the chip on his clothes or wherever. More accurate title would be: man can hack phone while holding onto it.
p99.9 was 100ms for me.
p50 was 10ms.

Did 100k requests. Did these tests back in November during the preview. I imagine it has different latency now so those numbers are probably close to useless.
Approaching what? Oh these pick-up ideas that poison the minds of the young and impressionable!

You can't work on the approaching because that's not the root of the problem.

It's like this - some people form groups based on chit chat and hanging together. It usually involves alcohol and hooking up, that's kinda the point of it all. And what keeps it going is the never-ending gossip surrounding who did what with whom. That's late highshcool, college/uni and a few years afterwards for some folks.

People who are more intellectually inclined tend to not be a part of those groups because they're 'boring' - which's another way of saying you can't relate to them and they can't relate to you. You're not 'connecting'.

Here's the crucial element - smart people relate based on doing things that take skill, average folks relate based on liking same music, same clothes, etc.

Once you're good at something average people want to be good at - they'll put up with your inability to relate to them based on 'boring' things. You'll be this 'Steve Jobs'-like weird-o they'll come to appreciate. In turn, when they like you, you'll get to have sex with them and stuff like that, and YOU will learn that the stuff you couldn't relate to them about, is not so bad after all. It just wasn't intuitive for you. Once you're good at making women (or men if you're a woman) happy, you all of a sudden have this superpower that everybody wants.

So it's this self perpetuating cycle but you gotta get good at something that is going to give you social points, so that you can catch up on what being 'cool' is all about.

Some of those things are being in a good band, dancing, comedy, sports etc. Nobody cares that you know how to install Linux, but if you can get up and sing at Karaoke night and get a standing ovation, all of a sudden you're a little rockstar.
> You don't seem to understand that addicts aren't free.

Yes they are. Quit trying to overload the term. Are they slaves? No. Are they in prison? No. Freedom means the freedom from the tyranny of others, not from yourself.
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Where in any of this have I rationalized my behavior? I have made no mention anywhere of what I actually think about the morality of the game or of the morality of developing it. You have no idea whether I'm ashamed of my involvement or not since I haven't revealed such.
The way you describe it, it definitely sounds bad. If you can build a better wheel, by all means start from scratch, but that probably won't be the case in every last situation you find yourself in so you'll probably end up having wasted a lot of time.
How does the pricing compare with say X amount of tasks that run for 1 second each compared to what you could expect from 1 hour on a medium ec2 instance?

EDIT: I see it offers "The Lambda free tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month. " What is a GB-second ;)
I think AWS is betting big on Lambda (I work there). So I think you'll see a lot of continued innovation around the service. They're pretty intense about consuming customer feedback and iterating on it so if you have an idea or desire that you would like Lambda to incorporate I'd definitely shoot them an email/ticket -- it's not a black hole.
From the article: "Much of 2015 has seen the open-source board maker defending itself from its former manufacturing partner, which recently claimed ownership of the brand, launched its own Arduino product line and website, and has worked to bar distributors from buying Arduino products from other manufacturers."
Well, yes, I'm simplifying things a bit. Although, now I actually think of it, I would be curious to know how average time spent in meetings stacks up for software engineers versus other professions- scientists, architects, accountants, etc etc etc. Certainly something someone might want to consider when plotting out their career path, but I don't believe I've seen anything looking into it.
> The casinos are not raking in the money from slots and table games like they were in decades prior.

You're pretty far off base here. Just looking at the Las Vegas Sands Corp's 10K, their annual revenue by source:

Casino - $12.0B

Rooms - $1.54B

Food/Bev - $0.78B

Mall - $0.55B

Convention, retail, other - $0.55B

So well over 80% of their revenue still comes from gaming -- and this is all extremely high margin revenue. The Casino PR industry is making a lot of noise about how diverse their income streams are but it doesn't follow in reality.
For the Android page, however, you could argue that they don't follow their own guide lines.

Click "Other download options". The EULA dialog only appears if the user clicks the link with his left mouse button as it seems to be a purely client-side interception. Should he, however, use right-click->save as or open in new tab he is not presented with the dialogue.
A nice and interesting article, but describing the squared error as "merely convenient" is a bit misleading, given that most noise is Gaussian, due to the central limit theorem.
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Probably thousands (millions?), in times past mostly, because that is when the mass population was not vaccinated. Diseases transmit with much more difficulty if people are vaccinated. Diseases kill some people (let's call them "the weak ones"). If people are vaccinated, diseases do not kill that much (because they do not reach the weak ones). If people are not vaccinated, diseases reach the weak ones, and kill them.
That's a good point, and it certainly lends credibility to your claim. It makes me wonder what causes this. My instinct is that JS attracts more people to it from things like design, where people seem to fawn over (seemingly trivial) things like the meaning of certain kinds of ovals. And so I think it would follow that this kind of mentality bleeds over into some aspects of JavaScript.