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Spelling. I was really bad at spelling. So one day on the bus, about 20 years ago, I decided to count the numbers of letters in words, assigning them different weights depending on being capitals or not. Why 9? It seemed fun at the time to have a secondary goal.
Why are you disabling IPv6?! It's faster than IPv4.
Why do you think they can't explain what they're doing to layman?

There are books and talks for layman on technical matters in physics. Apparently, that's not what Wikipedia is aiming for.

Physics and mathematics have a long history, and isn't easy. The learning curve in today's theoretical physics is quite high. Stuff not meant for layman is naturally not accessible to layman at all.

And as others pointed out, no, Einstein didn't say anything like that. He said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." though.
This is a sticky problem, no doubt. But we need to find a way to get rid of bad teachers.

Right now, in both the US and Israel (and perhaps other countries), we're in an extreme and untenable situation, in which bad teachers cannot be fired. In the elementary school that my children attended (and that my son still attends), bad teachers were sent off to teach computers. Or science. And so forth. You can imagine what this tells the children, the parents, and the teachers about how much we value these subjects.

There was a New Yorker story a few years ago that described how bad teachers couldn't be fired... and thus were sent to a building every day, where they checked in and did literally nothing all day. Yes, they received their full salary and benefits in exchange for doing literally nothing.

I'm guessing that a reasonable alternative is to have some sort of weighted system, in which the principal's evaluation, parents' complaints, and student performance all count toward whether a teacher can be fired. The biggest thing should probably be the principal's evaluation, but perhaps if a teacher gets fired, they can get another job, in a different school -- but perhaps the parents' evaluations and the students' performance can be used to determine how many other schools they can go to before being kicked out of the system entirely.

> The last time a teacher evaluation got implemented in Pennsylvania, they dropped it in a hurry because
> too many teachers couldn't pass it and they were going to have to pay WAY more to import teachers who
> could.

This is perhaps the most important point: Good teachers need to be paid well. They need incentive to become teachers, and to remain teachers. Which means that people will have to pay a fair amount in order to get a good education. In the US, this will mean taxes have to go up, which is a recipe for political suicide. In Israel, this means taking money away from other things in the education ministry (since we already pay, per capita, more for schooling than most European countries).
Right, but I presume csp.put() is asynchronous already, there's no point in wrapping it in csp.go().
Thanks for the correction, I assumed from context that BER was something different when the exact opposite is the case.
Psychopaths do not fear prosecution/punishment;

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150127212158.ht...
No, it's not illegal, as long as nothing in one's employment agreement prohibits it. What's more, many category of umreimbursed work expenses are tax-deductible for W-2 employees, for precisely the reason that they commonly arise.
For 3, that is really how it should be. Pages should be unusual and happen for real and immediate production issues.

But instead you get services built where dozens of pages a week is the norm.
I did the same, didn't get the root shell but instead got a standard OS X kernel panic screen and system reboot twice before it came back to life.

And wtf @qwertyoruiop this is how you "responsibly" release zero day?!

I just upgraded to 10.10.5 yesterday!
I think I probably should have done more negotiating.
This is hardly likely to raise secular educational outcomes across the whole population.
Disney is building a massive Star Wars world at Disneyland
Since this is getting a lot of visibility, I would like to ask - How many of you like the e-book reading experience in the Kindle or with the Kindle reader apps on other devices?

To me, I hated the high quantity of low quality of work I was doing at Amazon. I worked for Kindle e-books division. Most of the times the product managers were giving random suggestions, and the managers mostly spent time impressing higher level management rather than delivering the best experience for the customer. I felt like being in the midst of a bunch of folks who weren't excited about the e-books space and that they were mostly there because they had a good pay and were able to dance the dance. Internal politics was a big thing and the more I licked my managers boots by answering his midnight calls/mails the more he liked me. Adding even a small feature to enhance the reading experience needed sign-offs from a gazillion teams who would sometimes not agree to just Quality Validate because there wasn't enough time for them. The environment was toxic and no team wanted the other teams to perform well.
How far away are we from using this practically? e.g. /dev/random
There's also xsv:

https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv
The warning is a bit annoying, but without it attacks like this would be harder to spot: http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/ (it's just a proof-of-concept, no malicious payload)
> reasonable developer-friendly specs for the machines.
Nope.

The frugality principle is a disaster. It's a bad joke and the company uses it to justify the stupidest things.
It would seem that this was a success then. It take real skill to be able to siphon of funds for the same building 4 times.
Beyond Bash: Shell scripting in a typed, OO language
Does anyone happen to know of similar or generally useful tools for dealing with YAML files? Would ideally like to be able to run SQL-like queries.
There are two types of religious schools: One (which my children attend) requires English, math, and other subjects. I have criticisms of this school system, for sure. But there's no doubt that they generally teach their students secular subjects that'll allow students to get jobs.

A far bigger problem is indeed the "ultra-Orthodox," or "haredi," school system, in Israel, which is exempt from the core curriculum, or any real oversight by the education ministry. This is a tragedy -- one could say, of biblical proportions. These children are purposely getting an education that will not allow them to get a good job when they grow up. Many young Israelis who go through bad school systems get a second chance at a good job when they join the army, at the age of 18, and learn some practical skills -- but haredi children don't join the army, either.

Meaning that at the age of 18, they get married and start to have (large) families, basically guaranteeing that their families will be poor. And their children then go to such schools, which repeats the cycle.

It's tragic for the students, and tragic for the country. And the fact that the country allows this to happen is ridiculous, in my opinion. But it also reflects the sad fact that haredi (ultra-Orthodox) political parties are often needed to make a coalition in our parliament (the Knesset). Allowing such schools to exist, by removing regulations and giving them additional money, is one of the first demands that the haredi parties make to join the coalition.

I know that this will change at some point, because it must. But for now, it boggles my mind and boils my blood.
You do have a company right? How many applications/games have you already shipped?
CR3 is the x86 register that points to the root page table. When an OS switches between processes, it generally changes CR3. On the other hand, when an OS switches from user mode to kernel mode, it usually leaves CR3 alone.

I know essentially nothing about Darwin, but "no shared CR3" presumably means that the kernel will switch CR3 to make user memory inaccessible when running in kernel mode. This is approximately what grsecurity's UDEREF feature does.

On Linux, on Broadwell or newer, there's a similar HW mitigation called SMAP. Darwin might use it, too.

Linux also doesn't allow unprivileged programs to map very low addresses, making NULL pointer dereferences much harder to exploit.
Any feedback on which of these apply to Firefox mobile?
The audience reactions were like being at a wedding, anything you say is hilarious.
10.10.5 kernel panic too. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6a76b0793607c890c3ea
I find the Kindle ebook layouts are "meh" and miss, so will tend to lean towards iBooks or Kobo when I can lately. PDF is best but tends to be slower to render. Though the vast majority of my e-library is on Kindle.

Device wise, I have an old 2nd generation Kindle for beach use but mostly use my iPad and Laptop. The Voyage and latest Paperwhite look interesting but I'd rather have a device that supported EPUB without me jumping through hoops.

So I guess I'd say "it's adequate". Early Kindle days I was a brand loyalist, but not these days... probably a mix of quality issues and Amazon's overall monopoly position.
Wouldn't it be easier to make the fortune with the time machine I already have in this hypothetical scenario :-)?
Hard to say. For me it really comes down to they do not give a shit about their employees. Not at all. You can say that about other companies, but Amazon sets the bar very very low.
> Last year, during all-hands, a very high ranking Executive said

> My mentor, an Executive

> most Amazonians and especially Executives

Who capitalizes "Executive" in the middle of a sentence? A middle manager who idolizes Executives, apparently.

It reads like the author has drunk the company kool-aid.
I must have been stuck in the HN bubble too long because I'm really surprised that there's non-technical entrepreneurs trying to start technical startups. How does that even work?
Be glad you don't live in Vancouver, where the average house cost is the same as the bay area, but the average income is the same as reno nv. Rent although seems to be almost half the price of a house mortgage, so there is strange business going on in vancouver.
Intel pledges $750,000 to help grow pool of Navajo code writers
Jeff Bezos 1997 Interview
Thank you, that made this super-interesting video actually watchable.

Also, I learned VLC will just happily play a YouTube video right from the page's URL.
Henry ford was one of the first people to investigate industrial efficiency - he codified the 8 hour (7 for white collar) workday. Along with paying his workers enough that they could afford his product.

I don't buy what you're selling.
I thought cell phone companies don't appear from nowhere because governments and/or organizations like FCC in the USA are not allowing just anyone to sell radio communication equipment (is that why cellular modems are never open sourced, right?)

Is it because of the regulations that we don't see lots of cell phone manufacturers? If it wasn't for that, from this presentation I get the feeling that cellphones could be made to spec quite easily, say, by your regular hardware Kickstarter campaign: at least, the cellular modem shown in the presentation looks really self-contained.
Yep, 50% faster.
If there's anything that tech has proven it's that the best doesn't always win out.
I don't think it matters.
Uh no, it disable the stagefright library... disabling MMS auto-retrial is something else that I also did, but QKSMS also removed the ability for the app to interface with the Stagefright Libraries
I think that would still be Microsoft.
OVH's services down?
It seems that everyone I know lost their connectivity to OVH's networks. Even their status page is down.
I made a little tool called SQLBong that does something similar by embedding Sqlite3 under the hood: https://github.com/sordina/SQLBong
Hmmm. No offense dude, but you come off as super privileged in this post. I mean, I'm glad you've overcome your pride and can appreciate humanity. But you're still judging people based on your own metrics. And somehow it seems like your acting as though your own enlightened judgements and approach to handling the people around you is much better, and that we should be happy to be here on Hacker News since its ideals conform to your own. Don't get me wrong, there's really no "right" thing to believe here and you're not wrong, it's just that this post comes off as strange and masturbatory. Thank you and have a nice day.
Are there any pictures of the finished product? I'm intrigued.
Hi! I shot the video. We had some problems with the mic hookup on stage so I was using a mic all the way back at the camera that wasn't nearly as directional as I hoped. Apologies to everyone's eardrums !
CR3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_register#CR3

Some relevant excerpts from Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core by Jonathan Levi:

From page 133: In 64-bit mode, there is such a huge amount of memory available anyway that it makes sense to follow the model used in other operating systems, namely to map the kernel’s address space into each and every process. This is a departure from the traditional OS X model, which had the kernel in its own address space, but it makes for much faster user/kernel transition (by sharing CR3, the control register containing the page tables).

From page 266:
Still, unlike Windows or Linux, OS X applications in 32-bit (Intel) used to enjoy
a largely unfettered address space with virtually no kernel reservation — that is, the kernel had its own address space. Apple has conformed, however, and in 64-bit mode OS X behaves more like its monolithic peers: the kernel/user address spaces are shared, unless otherwise stated (by setting the -no-shared-cr3 boot argument on Intel architectures). The same holds true in iOS, wherein XNU currently reserves the top 2 GB of the 4 GB address space (prior to iOS version 4 the separation was 3 GB user/1 GB kernel).
I haven't read either of the papers yet, but can anyone comment on what makes it difficult to output multiple bits. Naively, couldn't you gather weak random data from the two sources, get a single bit, then gather more weak data, and run the extractor again to get a second bit?
if you dont want to incent them to work as maintainers, make it clear the project is one off, and calibrate a portion of the pay on how maintainable the code is.

if you assess maintainability when you see the code, make what you pay them depend on how maintainable you assess it.

if you assess maintainability over the lifetime of the code pay the freelancer a small retainer over that lifetime based on how few problems maintaining it there were.
You have quotes around "responsibly", is that a quote from somewhere in this disclosure?

You're welcome to point out that you prefer that vulns be disclosed to vendors before public release, but to chastise someone for not subscribing to your preferred methodology seems a bit off base
My vague recollections of past vulns (and admitted dislike for Apple) leads me to believe the parent comment, so I did some Googling. "A prominent security researcher warned Apple about this dangerous vulnerability in mid-2008, yet the company waited more than 1,200 days to fix the flaw."[1] But hey, they did credit him in the release notes!

Granted, it's been several years now, but the parent did say "has a poor record", and a 3 year patch delay fits that description.

More recently, there was the 4-day gap[2] between patching "goto fail" on iOS vs. OS X. While not really the same point as the parent comment, it reflects poorly on their commitment to rapidly fixing things.

[1] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/11/apple-took-3-years-to-fix...
[2] http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-finally-fixes-gotofail-os-x-s...
3 categories of apps that can make you healthy at work
Hmm, you make a really good point. Then the system requirements become super low, at the cost of requiring stable / reliable / reasonable internet connectivity.. seems inevitable longer term but not sure about the kids and schools that were targeted.
Also, even though I am a theoretical physicist myself, and I don't properly understand what people in other fields of physics are doing most of the time unless I spend non-trivial amount of time on it. That's not because they're charlatans; physics is on the hardest subject mankind has been dealing with, and it is truly hard. But it is open, you and anyone can learn it, if you spend enough time learning.

Expecting to understand particle physics all over without spending years and learning all the math you need is naive, and you shouldn't blame physicist. Nobody can make nature or maths easier for you, it's just how things are.

I honestly don't know how to explain nature without the gritty math. Apparently, maths is the language nature can be understood. I don't know how I can seriously explain how electricity, magnetism, weak and strong forces work, and how they are intricately related without going into gauge fields, relativity, Lie-group symmetries, quantum fields and partial differential equations, infinite path integrals or operator algebras for example. I can't even explain a fundamental thing like what a boson or fermion is properly without a background in field theory, let alone go into anyons, or how they might be related by a deeper symmetry of nature called supersymmetry.

It's not like pulleys and levers that you can infer from your daily experience and hope to understand it more or less by the time you finish your cup of coffee.
My own Amazon interview experience went smoothly, but when I showed up in Seattle for my first day of work, they were all like "Your manager's not in today and nobody booked you into orientation, so we decided your start date is actually next week, can you just pause your life for a week while we don't pay you?"

The next week happened to roll over to the next month, which meant that my benefits were postponed. They direct-deposited my starting bonus for the original month, and then yanked it out of my bank account without notifying me. Then they deposited it again at the end of the next month.
“We don’t comment on matters of national security”

Wow, they really think that's what they're doing, don't they? Nothing above and beyond here, right?

BTW, I was actually surveyed by AT&T on the phone when the news that they were doing this first broke over a decade ago.
is your goal to contribute to the effort or get mega rich by birthing general intelligence?

if it's the former, work anywhere you feel you are making an impact.

if it's the latter, work in secret until you have the money to protect and launch your ideas.

this business is invested in now as if it is highly lucrative. if you are known and good you'll be agressively poached.
Precisely: Part of Finland's genius was in realizing that you can't easily get rid of bad teachers. So they created big incentives for potentially good teachers to consider teaching, and blocked potentially bad teachers from entering.

For example, they shut down teacher's colleges, and mandated a university degree for all teachers. This took political guts, but it has paid off.
>But it’s impractical in the sense that it doesn’t actually satisfy the needs of anybody in the IOC or the bid committees that try to get tax money to enrich themselves, or the needs of politicians who want to bask in the halo of “winning and hosting the games."

In which case almost all anti-corruption drives are impractical.
Actually nobody cared to ask a majority of users their opinions in what was wrong with Kindle.. Any survey would only be towards a subset of users who like the Kindle because they most likely got it for free from Amazon. This feeds into an ecosystem which gives them the impression that everything is right while in reality, they can do much much better.

I hope your comments on layout get enough visibility.
Plausible deniability is a beautiful thing.
Looks like they depended on these 199 dollar chromebooks

http://blog.codestarter.org/how-we-turn-199-chromebooks-into...

Was this a business, or a charity? I am not really following here..
what would you say is best for 3d? (Html5 engines I mean)
It's a constant velocity joint. Like the one that lets you turn the wheel on your front wheel drive car.
not the OP, but yes, he has put them on Github:

Open Recipea - https://github.com/ipbyrne/rails-OpenRecipea-webapp

2 Do App - https://github.com/ipbyrne/rails-2-Do-webapp
Designers speculate about what Apple's self-driving iCar might look like
High intersection angle CV joints. Similar in purpose to the joints between the driven wheels and power plant (transmission/transaxle/rear diff/whatever) in your car, but Persian joints can tolerate much steeper angles.
seems like the birth of an industry
Most people do not have the means, time, money, connections, ability to go and sue even if they have been wronged or think they might have a clear case.

I certainly have not heard about the EEOC, I don't even know what that is.

Talking about their experience to a reporter is a lot easier. And I think saying "if they haven't sued, it means their story is false" is a bit extreme.
That guy is smarter than me, funnier than me, and most importantly works harder than me.... but I have an iPhone.
SOFA Statistics V1.4.5 released
Indeed. Off topic: Given the description of your lisp tool I think you will find Clasp interesting unless you are the Clasp author :)

https://github.com/drmeister/clasp
Politicians are weak.

An Olympics allows them to be strong.

The idea that the 'lost money' would/could have been spent on something better does not follow.
That is not an application of the problem posed above -- the core would still be in one of the pieces, and an easier solution would be to core the fruit first and then divvy up the annulus that remains.
I am skeptical about this post. I work at Amazon and we don't have any 50+ year old engineers.

(I don't know what happened to them. I assume they either quit for greener pastures, or Jeff Bezos invited them to Day 1 North where he tore out their beating hearts while the S-Team danced wildly to the beat of hellish drums)
Don't know if it is still true. DNS lookup didn't work correctly when ipv6 was enabled.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065717
Almost every company will eventually need great salespeople.

A great salesperson with a great idea, can recruit developers to implement the idea. It's rare, but I've seen it happen.
I found myself searching for an easy to use command line spreadsheet recently after discovering none of the GUI options have a sane dark color scheme ability. This is not what I'm looking for (as I'm not an emacs person, and I think I'd prefer something more pico-esque for the kind of simple personal finance/BOM documents I work with), but I was surprised to find this is apparently a niche that has been abandoned since the 80's. Anyone know of something I overlooked?