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This is usually why revolutions occur during times of famine. When they can't even feed your kids, then you have no choice but to seek 'radical' options.
JPL also published a C coding standard, which details language constructs that one should and shouldn't use in a mission critical embedded system. Some of the rules make a reappearance there (the "Power of Ten" article is mentioned in the introduction).

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf
Really curious on how this works, is it just bluetooth or something fancier like Google Tone[0]?

[0] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/05/tone-experimental...
Rather enjoyed flicking through that. I wish there was more of an overview for those of us who haven't thought about this stuff for a few years.
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I agree that the realities of life can be very different depending on geography and economic class. As a country of 80m people, Iran is much less homogeneous than say, Iceland. But this is not as inaccurate as you would assume. Because although Tehran and the other big cities (Tabriz, Mashad, Isfahan, Shiraz, etc.) can be much different from smaller towns or villages, they are very similar to each other and together represent a good first approximation when it comes to politics. With that being said, I am an Iranian, so if you like AMA.
Unfortunately, the "not as bad as" argument is also used by every scammer out there trying to stay just under the radar. (Particularly when Bitcoins are involved.)

$20,000 was a cheap lesson.
that only shows you that the (un)patriot act was useless?
I was hoping for something more far-reaching, but the public policy recommendations rehash ideas that have been proposed before (“We need to reinvent education with greater emphasis on STEM disciplines and coding skills,” etc.) I would be very interested in seeing the proposals for new organizational models & approaches, but the link did not work.
Whenever I see articles about Soylent, I can't help but wonder what is wrong with the products that more established companies make? E.g. the old Ross Laboratories, since renamed Abbott Nutrition.[1]

It's like some hipster said "I don't know anything about nutrition ... it can't be hard to do ... so here are my attempt(s) at keeping you alive".

That sounds harsh, but I'd really like to know what makes Soylent better.

Edit: I'm not interested knowing about "potato starch", "trehalose", or "isomaltulose". How about a plain English, big picture explanation.

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The NHS has a site called 'Behind The Headlines' which analyses articles about medical discoveries which appear in the media. It's also worth a look:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/06June/Pages/Immunotherapy-drug-...

Some useful points:

> "Severe side effects were seen in 55% of those taking the combination, 27% of the ipilimumab group and 16% of the nivolumab group. The most common of these side effects were diarrhoea and bowel inflammation...Side effects of the drugs were also a considerable problem. After one year, only a relatively small proportion of people in all treatment groups were still taking the drugs. In the combination group people had often stopped taking the drugs because of side effects. It will be important to compare people’s quality of life while taking these different drugs and their combination."

...

> "Some of the wide media coverage of this study, arguably moves into the realm of hype. Much of the reporting could give the impression that immunotherapy is a new discovery. In fact it was first used in the late 1980s, and has been used in the treatment of various conditions."

...

> Overall, people taking the combination lived longer without the disease progressing (average 11.5 months) compared with either drug alone (average 6.9 months with nivolumab and 2.9 months with ipilimumab). People whose tumour displayed the protein that nivolumab targets (PD-L1), did just as well with nivolumab alone as the combination. The study is ongoing and it’s not yet known whether people taking the combination treatment live longer overall than those taking the individual drugs.
I would not be surprised, emil. I am an American who spent a couple grand to visit Iran for two weeks. I am a wannabe Arabist (so it is fun to guess all shit on the walls) and even more wannabe Farsist (because it sounds hilarious, and more importantly because no one can keep it straight for me which side of the divide likes the word Persian in Persian, and Farsi, which is the A-rab name that stuck for the region). I went on to study Farsi in official courses abroad. I like to think I tried heard than the average douche touristo-journalist, but hard to tell.

In any event, as an American, I had a minder, as this is required for US toursits (you cannot simply walk around by yourself, you get caught by the police and it is a hassle). A cool dude, very educated finishing his doctorate work in German lit, and decided to pick up English and wing the tourism to have spending money. Unlike the kids in this article, he is like them in sentiment and style but from Nothern Iran (think Beverly Hills for the SV folks and Americans here), but he showed me the struggle their for kids like him was awful.

But there is a side of Iran that is not hipster and trendy like these dudes (I say this from the pictures, not the content of their opinions, but the opinions do it just the same for me). I will say the hipster kids are the ones I bonded with, and this is true of my time in Egypt, because their rebellion clued me into their personal politics, and that they were cynics like me. In Iran and Egypt, I saw much of the same. You as foreigner cling them to, and they to you, even though you hate the attraction. It says a lot about yourself, and them the same. These jouranlists amaze me when this goes unnoitced by them.

This to say, listen to this dude emil. Even Iran has hipsters. And it also has Republicans, just with cooler beards and weird congruences in politics with the American ones! I mean this as a joke, but is scary how minor the changes seem in the diverse insanity of human variation, to see in the Douglas Adams sense the universe is increasingly vast in the same shallow craziness.

Oh, and I recommend every American go there: you can see the receivng end of our foreign policy in all its splendor with the rabid terrorists!
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Hey zik, has anyone tried getting it running through emscripten? It would be very cool to have interactive C purely client side in browser. Could make some cool c based jsbin like hosting websites from that.
Nice smooth sound, low latency - good job!
they're lucky that the only interaction was with the SEC for running an exchange, and not with a prosecutor for operating a gambling website.
This is specifically why when we set up http://longbets.org/ we made is so the money always goes to charity. It's also why the Iowa Election Markets got a special waiver to operate. Either they're a market or a gambling operation, and both are heavily regulated in the US.

As far as I'm concerned you should have no more sympathy for them than anybody else. Even if this risk really never crossed their minds, their lawyer should have warned them of how problematic this was during their first five minutes in the law office.
I don't think anyone's tried that. It sounds like a pretty cool idea though.
Agreeing with personal anecdote: the more people under 30 I met there, the more scary it was and relieving to me that I was never as stuck as they will have been their whole lives.
Windows? OSX? Linux?

If it's windows, ninite is pretty good (although maybe you're looking for less interaction).

For Mac you can use something like Brew Cask http://caskroom.io/
It's a a sad truth that a single famine or economic depression can turn your whole life to risk-aversion and only valuing physical security.

You'll effectively ruin your life, next gen life, probably more.
You survived but you died inside, like a zombie apocalypse.
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I love it! Awesome work dude :)
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(Mostly) agree. Google is out of control, and they'll do anything to sell more ads.

The best solution is simply to not use google products (which aren't that good anyway).

- duckduckgo for search
- dropbox, box, etc. for files
- openstreetmap for maps
- firefox for web browsing (except firefox is about to introduce advertising, too, so I'm not sure about this one.)

This way, your data is decentralized, making it harder to track you. Also, these companies each focus on just one product, meaning their products are better anyway.
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Unless you take home a profit every day, then you know which side you are on.
Also conformity monkey.
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> if you trust facebook with the plaintext

Uh, its the plaintext of notifications sent by Facebook, to you.

If you don't trust Facebook with the plaintext of those, you probably shouldn't have a Facebook account.

This is a means of preventing interception by third-parties not intended to have access by either of the parties to the transaction. Its kind of an orthogonal concern to the degree of trust one has in the other party, though I suppose if one sufficiently distrusts the other party, the risk of accidental interception becomes negligible compared to the risk of intentional disclosure by the other party. But if the trust is that bad, why would you even voluntarily have relationship with that party?
Indeed, Cool URIs Don't Change: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
Replying as breadcrumbs to a fantastic idea.
The mentality is also reaching into public traded companies, invariably resulting in them overextending.

It all seems to come down to the chase of the growth curve. Anything thats not growing by x% per quarter is considered sick and on its death bed. Never mind that it may maintain its current place in the market for years and years, "investors" don't want to touch it.
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I truly love how you assume i am Iranian just because i brought that up...
Ah makes more sense now, thanks for the explanation. I'm an undergrad in EE so mechanics is not my strong point.

So a planar face of a cube cannot satisfy the equilibrium equations? Interesting ... so then a cube will necessarily bulge so the radius is enough to satisfy the equations, right?
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| [Disruption] has never happened in the hotel industry, for example.

Clayton should try out AirBnB. An interesting article, though I found his use of the third person confusing/odd.
I also had issue with the amount of setup with React, which is part of what drove me to Mithril, which has almost zero boilerplate. Nearly every line of code you write is either relevant application logic or declarative view code.
Very nice. This is the kind of philosophy I was thinking about when I wrote it.
Takes a certain amount of arrogance or cluelessness to see a bunch of visits from the SEC and decide they're looking for jobs or otherwise impressed with your "engagement".
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a kind of "dead man's whistle" is guess?
The real growth hack here is getting investigated by the SEC resulting in more traffic than $20K would otherwise buy you.
For me, Firefox on Android totally screws up font sizes? As in, there is a ~300% variation in font size between individual comments, for whatever reason? (I suspect it has something to do with the use of tables for formatting)

For purely reading, Dolphin Browser is ok.
If you squint you can see that they may have felt it was legal to host investo-gambling if they weren't making and profit directly tied to trade activity.
What is your source?

http://www.amazon.com/Islam-Without-Allah-Religious-External...

This "Iran has been this way" bullshit is the same nonsense I called out in a previous article about how Hezbollah is some Iranian cleric + Syrian Asad backdoor meeting became a movement BS.

Iran's history is more complex than that.

TL;DR Iran was not Shi'a, it became Shi'a, for political and politicized reasons, and was racheted up and down over the last few centuries and the authoritarian isolationism is a product of that now.

So maybe I am wrong, but what do you base this on?

(There are many books on this topic, not just this one, I just know even this one was translated to Arabic by a reputable publisher; more factual academic works exist and this is the modern Western analysis of Iran coming from when I was in school 5-10 years back in these BS Arab/regional courses, and Iran is lumped in.)
Didn't they drop that contract?
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Facebook says, “Move Fast and Break Things.”

I don't think that Facebook meant to break "things" like big time securities laws (without even consulting a lawyer or, presumably, even incorporating the business). Maybe no one has done it before because it's illegal--not because it's so innovative.
At least in video games, responsiveness is being measured mainly with high-speed cameras ;) - (60fps, e.g. 16ms is good enough sampling rate)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3725/measuring_respons...

This by far is most portable, testable and unbiased way of doing it. If you rely on internal measuring then, well.. Actually I don't know how you can do that - for example when the video / audio signal actually leaves is only verifiable with some external equipment... like camera ;)
Haha. Guilty as charged! Sorry! :)))

Well, not at the moment, no. Once there is any form of automation allowed, probably yes. Or if it is to become a part of some web DAW, this would not be handled by the instrument, I guess.
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I really like snap and scratch, and I think they're part of the right approach, but I can already here "those kids" (you know who they are) talking about how whichever students had to take the snap class were dumber, and couldn't really code, and weren't 'real cs majors'-- probably before lecture in some early college cs class while the snap kids are sitting around them.

To be clear, I don't have a solution to this part of the problem, but I think that moment (listening to 'those kids' talk about who the 'real hackers' are) can lose as many non-typical engineers as the moment when they have to install their first IDE
This is a thread about Facebook adding the ability to encrypt their notifications for you. While all those may be valid arguments, and are certainly worth discussions, this is neither the time nor the place for it. As I said before, there could be many arguments made against a whole number of things, but none of them are on topic. In terms of this one specific feature Facebook added, it's a net security positive, and not theater, as we have shown you several times over the course of this constantly-offtopic thread.

To answer your question bluntly, people are supposed to just set this aside here, yes. Because all those things are not at all even remotely related to the topic at hand. If you have concerns about PGP, there's plenty of security-oriented forums you can take those problems to to have them analyzed by actual security experts who would be able to provide much more information about it than we could. If you have concerns about Facebook's policies, then I'm sure there's legal forums and other Facebook-related discussions which would more closely match those concerns. If you have concerns about Facebook itself, well, perhaps you shouldn't be on it in the first place. But regardless, this topic is not the appropriate place for any of these conversations because none of them are about the encryption of notifications from Facebook to you.
Especially interesting in light of this, their analysis of traffic from the sec: http://sandhill.exchange/blog/sec-analysis
It would be most excellent if you turned that MIDI mapping code into it's own module.
Isn't HFT pretty much limited to those with deep pockets?
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Actually I find it difficult to vote even here on my laptop - the buttons are too small, not friendly at all.
For what it's worth, transactional DOM update is a fantastic idea that I hadn't heard before your comment. Are you familiar with anyone actively exploring such a thing?
I only have limited experience of Iran - travelled in a campervan from Turkish border to the Pakistani border with wife and daughter in 2010 for 6 weeks. Obviously our interactions were with English speaking (to some extent) Iranians (actually Kurds, Arabs or Persians, I don't think we met anyone who said they were "Iranian" ;-) ), so those were more outward looking to have learned English in the first place. Those who disproved of us would have kept clear.

But we found from all walks of life, from people in the cities, villages people were friendly, aware of the issues, had a sense of progressive thinking. I wouldn't say "pro western" as such on the whole, the higher middle / upper classes yes, but that is true for all countries. But definitely not anti-western and definitely a desire to live without western interference.

One question we were asked over and over again, "why do the west governments not like Iran", "we they say we are evil"..... it was hard to sum up politely "well your country stopped doing as it waws told for the "interests" of foreign governments and unfortunately for you, your country sits atop vast quantities of natural resources that were wanted..."
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> Squashing tiny companies might make them feel better, but it's not impactful. Going after companies defrauding investors / playing it fast and loose for millions is how you clean up finance.

Putting out big fires like that is a good -- but expensive -- way to grab headlines, sure. Something the SEC definitely needs to do to the extent it can.

Dealing with small things like a little market that lets you bet real money on company valuations in a market with deliberately falsified trade histories is how you prevent something from becoming one of those big fires, relatively cheaply for all involved, and before lots of people get hurt by it. Also an important thing for the SEC to do.
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I am not yet a professional game developer, but I did write a multiplayer server in Clojure. It had most of the features of the current version, which was ported to golang:

https://secure.emergencevector.com:8000/

(Be sure to mouse click on the map, otherwise your arrow key keystrokes may never get read due to focus.)

I got pretty similar performance out of Clojure's persistent collections as I got out of mutable state in a traditional game loop in golang. (Though to be honest, in neither case was that enough performance. 150 to 250 concurrent users, potentially all in the same location, interacting.)
Pretty sure that I speak for most humans when I say that a $100k medical treatment might as well be a $100m treatment.

There's some quote like "any quantitative value is qualitative at sufficient scale". $10,000 is the most expensive thing I've ever purchased--and I'm still paying it off.
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