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> I means recently more and more evidence shows that GFW has finally find a way to recognize shadowsocks's packets.

Hmm... okay, so they defeat shadowsocks by recognizing the packets.

> Then they stopped the development of shadowsocks.

But if they already had shadowsocks beat, why do they make a public show of shutting it down?

Sounds more like they recognize that they don't have the GFW technology to defeat shadowsocks on-going development over time. Which suggests all you need is a new developer.
That's literally life isn't it? Not matter how technically brilliant your product is, dealing with people is the single most important thing in business.
Interestingly, the iPad split (software) keyboard chose "both". For en-US (I don't know if it varies by region), the 6 key is drawn on the right side. However, you can happily tap where it would be with your left index finger and it'll type a 6.
That may be true statistically, but is that survey based on a nation-wide basis? I am asking because the culture between provinces and regions can vary extremely widely. I have lived in Canada for 17 yeara and no one I know has a firearm. Most of my friends and their families are the same. Which is to say that I've lived near Toronto and Southern Ontario, but where a sizable portion of the Canadian urban population lives. Of course there are many Canadians living in rural areas where owning firearms makes more sense, but culturally speaking, our gun ownership mindset is still generally far more restrictive. You'd be hard pressed to find a lot of gun owners in major cities and suburbs.
But exposing their ethics and who tried to hide the fact that smoking has been linked to cancer, that is gray.
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Practice doesn't help if you're brain is literally wired differently. Practice can only cover up with intellect a deficiency in behavior that others do automatically and unconsciously, which means no matter how good you get at faking it, it's still going to be exhausting and aggravating because you lack the underlying natural behaviors.
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Thanks for the clarification! This is very reassuring. I would suggest that you explicitly state this on your web page — as this thread shows, I wasn't the only one being suspicious of the 'Fn' key. We've been burned too many times.
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Rust does have the unofficial Ferris the crab: http://www.rustacean.net/
So you read 24/7/365 as 7/24/365? That only makes sense to Americans, I guess.
Water from unbaked clay filters feels fresh due to evaporative cooling [0]. Some of the water seeps through the walls and slowly evaporates, cooling the recipient. The magnitude of this effect depends on air humidity. This is the same principle behind a Botijo [1].

I don't know where in the country you're from, but here the water and sanitation department said the water is okay to drink from the tap. Very few if any people do it anyway, as everyone is used to filtered water. Maybe water quality wasn't as good in the past, or as reliable (it still isn't).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botijo
I used to use Brita filters for a long time but one day I looked closely and noticed tiny dark flakes in the water from what I assume was charcoal from the filter. Using new filters still left the flakes in the water so I just stopped using them altogether. Now I've been drinking straight tap water for ages. The taste was noticeably different at first but the tap water is perfectly safe where I live and it saves money.

I still wonder if it's normal for those charcoal flakes to pass through the filter and into the drinking water, and do they pose any concern?
That's a good point. I'm reminded of von Neumann's quip that
"with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
Incidentally, if you try to do this with the Caps Lock key on an aluminum Apple keyboard, you will (painfully) discover, that this key has a built-in hardware delay.

Remapping it to Control (as most normal people do) means that some of your control combinations will miss, also under Windows (it's really a hardware thing).
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> Really? Scientific studies are now establishing that this or that "destroys you"?

I'm not going to go grab links for you, but yes, shift work is terribly detrimental to your health. Google "shift work health risks".

> In addition, many jobs simply need to be done in shifts, and someone's gotta do it. Servers need monitoring, hospitals need staffing, power plants need running.

Indeed. They can pay extra for the requirement, while we ensure we have regulations to keep people who have to do it as healthy as possible.
The screen stuff has been legit but two things were funny:

1. Eliot, an elite hacker, has a Excel 2014 book in his apartment. Why does he need to use Excel so much? Why does he need Excel at all if he's using Linux? And why would he need a user guide to figure it out?
2. When Eliot has to fix a hack to E Corp at Allsafe his boss gives him a folder of paper logs and says "look through these"
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There are a few exceptions but generally you can stay one or two versions behind. While Apple annoyingly don't state how long they support OS releases, they currently ship security patches for 10.8 and 10.9. The last patch for Lion was just before the 10.10 release.
So the murder of 8 million innocent people in gas chambers justified the means of teaching us a "lesson?" That is the sickest thing I've ever heard on here. That attitude is right up there with Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao. You aren't defending the third reich, you're worse; you're intellectualizing the "value" of Hitler. Millions of people killed. Babies grabbed from their mothers and stomped under bootheels. People dissected while stile alive. Woman (and men) raped in unimaginable ways in the name of science. Chemical agents administered to children simply to watch the effects.

Sure, Hitler was "good" in the long run. You should be ashamed of yourself. The ends don't justify the means. Perhaps when the next madman starts up extermination camps, your family ought to be first on the list. Perhaps that would be fitting since, after all, it would be good for Western Civilization.
No, don't go there, really. You've been warned. Seriously.
If you recognise MacBooks have high quality screens, why not just buy one?
Background: I am the COO of Toptal

This is simply not true for Toptal. Our publicly stated $80,000,000 ARR is top line.

http://www.toptal.com/press-center/top-3-percent

For additional clarification:

You don't post "projects" on Toptal. Everything we do is time & materials, so the concept of misrepresenting financials based on posted projects simply isn't possible. ARR is calculated by actual sales right now multiplied out for a year of time.
Water can contain clinically relevant quantities of minerals, but as the article you linked states it is secondary to food. Some regions have naturally very soft waters (famously Pilsen, Czech Republic, where it is an important part of Pilsener beer). Those waters don't have clinically relevant mineral content, but people there don't have mineral deficiencies unless their diet is also mineral deficient.

I've heard your claim that drinking ultra-pure water is dangerous many times before, but I've never seen any citation from a reputable journal. It seems highly implausible to me, as the ultra-pure water will cease to be ultra-pure immediately as it hits your stomach. In general it's very difficult to keep ultra-pure water pure.
What exactly makes something "not real" and only a tool? Is relativity "just a mathematical tool" because planets don't have differential equation solvers in them?
Talk me out of it – switching from Firefox to Chrome
I've used "Firefox" since Mosaic, then Netscape, then Mozilla Firefox. But, damn, more and more Firefox bogs down on me (and I have few, if any add-ons installed). Flash was locking it up, and I'm keeping it disabled unless I particularly want it on, and animated GIFs seem to bog it down. Othertimes it just seems to bog down - I assume a memory resource leak - and a restart fixes it. Sometimes not.

I'm loyal to the heir of the first browser, but frankly am ready to trade - same quandry when I had to abandon Borland for M$oft (but that was a business decision).

Alas, although I know it's open source, I'm not in a position to fix it myself.

Anyone else hanging in there, know what the bog down is, or what are people doing? I know I'm not the only one with this issue.
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>or results displays that rub your face in the result: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED with one result on the screen, vs. a list of results the person has to interpret.

That's the entire point, though - telling the viewer who the villain is quickly (and, most importantly, cost effectively) to get to the part where the hero busts down their door. Designing the UIs realistically and eating up valuable screen time with analysts poring over the data would be a waste of money in most cases.

Also, realistic design increases the chances of someone actually suing for copyright infringement or something.
Is it possible that the reason Quoc Le never published the code is that it got tangled up in the word2vec patent? At GTC 2015, Ren Wu stated (paraphrased) that the reason DNNs are advancing so quickly is because all the practitioners are sharing code, data, and techniques too quickly for the lawyers to gum up the works.

The lawyers have since stepped up their game IMO, doing their best to protect us from that imminent Robot Apocalypse Elon Musk keeps warning us is right around the corner.
> 1. Eliot, an elite hacker, has a Excel 2014 book in his apartment. Why does he need to use Excel so much? Why does he need Excel at all if he's using Linux? And why would he need a user guide to figure it out?

While I agree that it's more likely that the prop team got this when they were task to buy some "computer books", I have some similarly useless books in my shelves that I got from relatives when I was younger because they thought "I was into computers".
does anyone filter tap water?

We do, via refrigerator filter, even though we have very good water in this area (from Mt. Hood).

Other areas of the country aren't so lucky. Sometimes municipal water may come from[1]:

a sewage treatment plant's outlet 2 miles upstream

400,000 people got sick, 100 people died.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Milwaukee_Cryptosporidios...
+1 for Lin Yutang, he is an amazing writer who sparked my interest in China. I lived there two years and met my wife. Xie xie Lin Xiansheng!
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I have known so many engineers that rely on wishful thinking, it gets pretty frustrating after a while. If they do it with bugs they'll do it with resource planning.

Another place where they do this is oversubscribing a server, by putting 4 services that need 20-30% of the system memory or network to run, and don't understand why throughput drops off by 90% when the system becomes saturated and starts swapping or dropping packets.
Who said anything about just looking at the title and domain?
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the feeds at hnrss.org always seem to provide a link back to the comments in a thread even though they do link to the source.
I have completely unscientific evidence from watching two friends on this for a year. One took it in bursts when code was due, usually no more than 2 weeks at a time. The other took it every damn day and basically didn't sleep all year. Friend 1 is fine and now has a majorly well paying job. Dood 2 is gone, vanished in a fog of paranoia, never to be seen again by his friends.
I still wonder if it's normal for those charcoal flakes to pass through the filter and into the drinking water, and do they pose any concern?

Yes, no, and if you soak the filters beforehand as the instructions say, there are less flakes.
>>…how to fit everything together within the current software ecosystem…<<

You mean like using Win32™ DLLs?

http://www.object-arts.com/downloads/docs/parameterconversio...

I haven't been looking for Smalltalk success stories. This sort-of thing?

http://pharo.org/success
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but the feeds at hnrss.org provide a link back to the original post, (even though they do link to the source.)
Well, citing my friend professional toxicologist, who spent some time working for big pharma in Swiss, and delivered relevant course at Bristol Uni, "Modafinil is not even nootropic, you can only compare it to ladasten". This guy considers piracetam useful and buys it in Russia, where it is dirty cheap.
Its pretty clear at this point that every Western government wants to be able to spy on its own citizens as thoroughly as possible while dressing it up as 'security'.

It is really quite sad how obviously transparent it is yet most people are indifferent. :/
which leads me to two questions:

1. if you need custom vpn, why even have apple devices?!

2. why focus on vpn over their network instead of mesh?
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Devils Advocate: What about Exercise, healthy eating, mindfulness, and a smart drug?
In the US, it depends heavily on context. "The guys" or "those guys" almost always implies males. Same with any singular usage of the word "guy".

"You guys" is the only usage that can refer to a mixed-gender group. Obviously, that isn't how GP used it.
Hey, FWIW, you've completely convinced me to never use this phrase again.
be sure soon the dev will be cordially invited to write the deep inspector for that vpn if it ever leaves the ground.

and i wonder if filling the apple form helped them finding him or it was just bad timing
The slashes aren't maths operators, they're language/grammar/shorthand. The lexeme as a whole is merely a mnemonic for the linger phrase: "24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year."

It's not that the individual segments relate to each other. Rather they answer three sets of questions:

What are your daily hours? All of them. 24 hours / day.

What weekdays are you open? Again, all of them. 7 days/week.

What holidays do you observe per year? None, we're open 365 days/year.

Since there's rarely a monthly cycle to business closings and there aren't a standard number of days per month, that's elided.

It also helps to realize that human timekeeping is really based on three independent phenomena which are utterly unrelated. There are day-based units: seconds, minutes, and hours are all subdivisions of the period of rotation of Earth about its axis.

The month is based on the Moons orbit about Earth. That it is roughly 30 days is a notional convenience, similarly its rough divisibility by 4 into 7 day periods. The week is entirely synthetic (though profoundly persistent).

And the year on Earth's orbit about the Sun. Again, relationship to days and months are entirely arbitrary.

That's why it often seems time units are arbitrary. They are.

There's a brief book which Kay's this ought and traces the calendar through time, The Seven Day Cycle.
I would hope that the US government would ban Windows 10 on government computers.
"I know that most farts aren't worth anything, but these are OUR farts. They're going to be worth millions!!!"
Apparently $150 to businesses.

"Apple Team Developing Maclike Smalltalk"

https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=P...
My Gopher has always made intense and direct eye contact:

http://i.imgur.com/8THC2th.jpg

:)
How powerful is your hardware? What OS do you use? Do you have any irreplaceable extensions?
Lol. On Chrome is really annoying: chrome for mac disable the key "Quit Google Chrome" if there is a popup open..
The Golang Gopher is a design of Renee French, and the lack of attribution here is disappointing. Wouldn't these derivative works also be covered by her copyright?

https://blog.golang.org/gopher
Don't overestimate them. I don't believe MS or US government would give access to source code to anybody with "alternative" world insight. It's like to give access to source code to N. Korea.
I'd love to see some sort of benchmark for what this does to battery life.
The link is broken or the app is not available.. maybe the correct link is : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.newtracker...
> In a thread w/300+ comments a hitler reference was inevitable

Indeed -- it's Godwin's Law[1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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The original Gopher is licensed under the Creative Commons 3 Attribution license: https://golang.org/doc/gopher/README

While technically you could license your own stuff under the WTFPL, these gopher images are still CC BY 3.0 underneath that.
Realistic design doesn't cost more; using actual sites may get you fired, but altering them sufficiently is cheaper than building whole b.s. displays from scratch.

I think the "tell the viewer who the villain is quickly" is correct in terms of the director/writer's intention, but in fact the word is "badly".
There's no "special network", it's just plan old VPN.
Maybe what I do simply doesn't call for or benefit from such a thing, but I never have seen the appeal of a monolithic email-contacts-calendar-todo-and-more monster application. It makes for a slow, resource intensive program and a lot of dead weight if you decide that you dislike any single component (say, the calendar) and use a single-purpose alternative instead. I've never found Oulook's mail management to be anything special, either, and that ribbon thing is abominable.
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You say that most 'distilled water' sold as drinking water has minerals added back in. Where do you get this information?

I live in China, where tap water is not considered safe to drink, and bottled (or boiled) water is the norm. In my experience, most brands of drinking water do not contain minerals. One of the premium brands (Watson's) actually has a separate 'with minerals' version, with a blue label instead of their normal green label.

Oh, and I've tested several brands of water with a portable TDS meter, and all registered between 0% to 5% of the values yielded from tap water at my home and my office.
> CTO of another corp

Not to nitpick but he's not the CTO.
Public transit is worthless where I grew up. Your choices are to share your parents' cars, get driven everywhere by your parents (most common), work at one of the 3 walking-distance employers, or simply not leave the house very much.
IP ADDRESS FOUND : 593.102.340

It always bugged me. Does anyone know why realisators spend so much energy into making faux computer interfaces in almost every movie/show ?
Which astronauts were politically connected prior to selection?
You misunderstood me. What you said was exactly my point: Just because something bad leads to something good, that doesn't make it good itself.
Cool project, and great write up of the experience!
I think by "lessons learnt" he meant learning about the dangers of fascim, racism, nationalism, etc. Not necessarily technological advances.
oh what have you done to him? is he drugged on ADD/ADHD medication? ;)

Lovely dark teal gopher!
The Internship and Mr. Robot have about as much in common as Twilight and Fight Club (all IMO of course)...
I've become exceptionally leery of GUIs for anything remotely complex. Scripting provides the kick in the ass incentive not to arbitrarily utterly bollox interactions as countless millions of scripts would have to be rewritten. You end up with stuff like Sendmail compatible commands and switches for mailers long since the former's heyday (qmail a notable exception). Or SSH and rsh being largely compatible.

On the rare cases syntax does change people raise holy hell. It can kill tools. Especially if done more than once.

GUIs have none of these features and change capriciously.This tends to keep user proficiency at a low general level over time.

Web apps only extend this.
That still (or more so?) has the classism problem. Less wealthy people are more likely to be more severely punished if they are unable to get to work on time, and also more likely to live far away from their jobs. Both of those problems are exacerbated by being forced to take public transport. Owning a car is often a major bonus when applying for certain kinds of jobs, because it is viewed as increasing the chances that you will it to work on time.

I'm all for thinking about ideas to make transport work better, but this sort of stuff makes it quite hard to come up with good ones.
DuckDuckGo has a great philosophy. But, have you ever used DuckDuckGo instead of Google, Bing and other search engines? https://duck.co/forum/thread/1902/why-i-love-duckduckgo-but-...
What Matlab function edits its inputs in-place? I cannot think of any.

Actually Matlab's pass by value is one of its best properties (as a language). This is how functions work in math and is much easier to reason about.

I really dislike Julia's pass by reference semantics. Even if it enables better performance.
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This is why many people believe self-driving trucks will be even more significant than self-driving cars. Especially as we start to commute less as telepresence improves and more jobs can go remote.
Maybe that's the case these days in the US. However, where I live (Norway, Europe), left-wing politicians want high taxes on new cars, gasoline etc. in order to discourage car use everywhere. Hopefully, the US won't end up like this.
Real is probably a bad word and I can't really give a sharp definition but I can provide an analogy.

Take a soccer field with two teams and a ball on it. I would prefer to describe that as 23 particles of a few different kinds (ball, field player, goal keeper) and different properties (team membership, mass, fitness, whatever).

You could certainly invent a ball field and a field for both teams that are zero everywhere except where the ball or a player is located but you certainly wouldn't suggest that there are ball and soccer player fields in the universe even if they perfectly describe what happens on the playing field. On the other hand we could certainly agree that there are really players and a ball located somewhere on the field with specific masses, velocities and so on.

Maybe you can look at it from a point of redundancy. If you describe ball and players as particles with locations and momenta you get a description that naturally matches what is going on. If you use a field description you have to place a lot of constraints on what is allowed and what not, players disappearing, a second ball appearing and so on. The field description has just a lot more degrees of freedom than the particle description and you have to impose a lot of constraints to suppress field configuration that are not physically possible. So it also a kind of Occam's razor argument to pick a simple and minimal description.
HBase? no idea, I would also like to know that one.
Oh, you're gonna love this [0] and the work of Territory Studio[1]. Also, check out r/unixporn [2], it has some cool stuff.

[0] http://www.hudsandguis.com/

[1] https://www.behance.net/TerritoryStudio

[2] https://reddit.com/r/unixporn
Cool. Unit tests would be nice.
Self-driving trucks seem to have such great promise to improve the safety and efficiency of the trucking industry and our highways in general. Even if they're only self-driving during the long haul sections and human drivers take over for local deliveries it would make a huge difference.

Hopefully the various interested lobbies don't try to put too many artificial barriers in the way of self driving trucks becoming a reality.