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> Companies like Microsoft and Apple reaped the benefits, early on, of little to no software patent protection laws. They copied and outright pilfered everything out there - and it was ok

Law suits over look and feel have been happening since the 1980s, well before MS or Apple got big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderbund_Software_Inc._v._Un....

Lotus started look and feel lawsuits in 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Software#.22Look_and_fee...

Apple tried to sue MS over look and feel in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....

They've always aggressively used law.
There were so many proxy wars between the USA and the Soviets I would not class that as a bloodless "no war" conflict.

I don't think there will be a war for the same reason Europe did not go to war with in the past few decades ... it would be like shooting themselves in the foot. there is little incentive for war when economies are so reliant on each other.
Plastic eating mealworms could help reduce landfill waste
Yet there's no problem for a Japanese person to say 'n' without trailing into a connected vowel sound, and even using it as its own syllable.

Just not with any other consonant.

This confuses my gaijin brain.

(Also, the first half of "b" is "m'". :-P)
Well, the original post talks about him getting Google Webmaster tools for google.com, which while still not "owning" the domain itself, is interesting because it means more happened than just the domain buying app thinking he owned it.
IPython is the best thing after sliced bread
I was expecting a step by step decomposition of the process. I'm a bit disappointed.
Peeple: A 'Yelp' for Rating Other People
Probably "Cheap programming" as you can't afford to have more than one computer, everyone gets chance on that one computer in round robin way.
Just pick one and use it. If it is a long project pick python 3. If you actually use python you'll barely notice the difference.

EDIT If the script uses a well formed #! this isn't too much of a problem either.
That's a personal choice and you are mixing the sport of cycling with the activity of biking from A to B. In the Netherlands (massive biking culture) 96% of people do not wear helmets yet they have the least head trauma in the world. For biking, you create segregated space.
But that makes their test results invalid. They can't claim a certain average speed if that speed is way lower than what the network deliver in the real world.
Well, they could disappear an App that many people used, or ... anything else really. What they went with was pretty customer-hostile. It illustrates the problem with a closed eco-system. Two other parties have a fight and you end up stuck in the middle.

I don't know that they want to point this out, even if they think they're in the right.
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Function Composition [with python]
Having a federal minimum of say 4 weeks would be a start. And any state that dint follow suit would have its pork (federal aid) cut
Raytheon wins $1B cybersecurity contract to battle attacks on U.S. agencies
9-6(8 at office, lunch hour uncounted) is typical for an established company that is not experiencing a managerial crisis.
AFAIK there is nothing stopping you from encrypting arbitrary amounts of data directly using asymmetric algorithms like RSA. The scheme you describe is implemented because asymmetric crypto is dead-slow compared to symmetric crypto, so the amount of data to be encrypted using an asymmetric algorithm is kept to a minimum by just encrypting a random symmetric key, which is then used to encrypt large amounts of data with a fast symmetric algorithm.

Since the data that was encrypted in this case is inherently tiny (social security numbers etc.), I'd think it would be a good idea to directly encrypt this with an asymmetric algorithm, thereby reducing the complexity of the entire mechanism, which is generally beneficial for security as well as maintainability.

But I'm wondering as well about the reasons for choosing an asymmetric algorithm in the first place. Typically, symmetric algorithms are used for such cases in which the entity that encrypts something is the same entity that needs to be able to decrypt it later. It's not that this could not be implemented as well using asymmetric crypto, but it somehow defies the whole point of the asymmetry.
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Ah. And that explains why the BoE keeps threatening to raise rates even though none of the usual excuses apply - inflation has been close to 0% for most of the year in the UK.
Light in the blue part of the spectrum is very distracting in peripheral vision and causes more glare because it saturates rod and short-wavelength cone photoreceptors, and it causes the eyes to adapt to an expected higher light level, which wipes out night vision.

For both drivers and pedestrians, blue-wavelength glare impedes vision into the shadows, causes distraction, and slows reaction times.

If you want more reasons not to have blue-wavelength outdoor lighting at night, it also disrupts melatonin production and sleep rhythms causing all sorts of human health problems, heavily disrupts wildlife circadian rhythms (both animals and plants), and creates more light pollution, making life dreary for skygazers and amateur astronomers.

The best outdoor lighting is low-pressure sodium lamps. High-pressure sodium lamps, “warm” incandescent lamps, and LEDs at a CCT of ~2000–2500K are also not too terrible, especially if well shielded and not too bright: In general outdoor lighting can safely be much dimmer than most cities make it, because human vision can adapt to extremely low light levels just fine.

Bright white LEDs of ≥3500K CCT are absolutely awful outdoor nighttime lighting: unpleasant, unhealthy, environmentally destructive, and wasteful of energy.

For more info, see http://www.csbg.ca/articles/APPLIED_SCOTOBIOLOGY.PDF and http://darksky.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/8_IDA-... (and the rest of http://darksky.org)
Niall Ferguson's The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred, which looks at the 20th century, starts by pointing out how comfortable and settled everything looked at the start of the 20th century and as Keynes put it that this state appeared "normal, certain and permanent".

For all we know the historians of the 21st century may look back at our time in similar ways.
Quite a lot of the Netherlands doesn't have segregated space.

What they do have is reduced space for cars and absolute priority for cyclists when cyclists and cars share road space.

It's not possible to remove cyclists from all roads, so it's probably more important to change car driving culture.
Two People with Brain Implants Control Computers with Their Thoughts [video]
Coinbase adds support for 3D-Secure cards
Quoting myself from the lobste.rs thread[0]:

>> No matter how good the interface is, it’s almost certain this will never hit Linux in the next 5-10 years. It’s not because the interface is bad, but because the glibc-devs and other people are scared of simple and straight-forward interfaces, rather not doing anything than implementing an interface which handles the general case rather than trying to cover the 0.5% of edge cases, being complex and bloated.

> This is such a tough lesson to learn and to apply. I still fail at it most of the time in my own code, thinking up the weirdest edge cases possible that I need to handle rather than making the 99% case nice and simple.

I'm a CS grad student, I've worked in the industry before, and I am 100% guilty of sometimes dismissing a nice and simple solution because the perfectionist in me is annoyed that an edge case takes O(n^2) or that the algorithm won't give the optimal answer in some pretty rare circumstances.

[0] https://lobste.rs/s/4jlaod/tame_-_bad_kitty_no_socket_for_yo...
This is a fantastic homepage - straight to the point with simple demos. Great work.
/usr/local makes sense to me if you've installed brew with sudo. But as other comment says, it's weird to me to have files owned by login user in system directory. It's such a rare scenario now I guess of multiple people on same machine, but isn't user home directory place for files owned by login user?
I've just read "In defence of food". It's a little sensationalist, but the author makes a good point that we've been blaming this or that nutrient and in the process we've become more and more unhealthy.

Amongst others we blamed cholesterol, we blamed fats, then saturated fats, now we're starting to blame carbohydrates. The problem starts from the reductionist science being applied, coupled with the constant lobbying of the food industry of course. What happens is that nutrition is an incredibly complex subject and nutritionists can only blame what they can currently measure. The result is a whole industry of processed foods that have lost their nutritional value. And for the food industry, that's OK because processed foods are more profitable.

The problem is not naturally occurring sugar. The problem is high fructose corn syrup and (to a lesser extent) sucrose and the current practice of injecting these substances in processed foods, because these sugars are fooling our senses and create addiction. But we are talking about refined carbohydrates. The sugar in fruits is totally fine and in fact there are signs that we don't eat enough fruits. But why stop at sugars? Margarine was certainly a bad idea, as was every other idea that the nutritionists' community ever had.

So really, if you want an enemy, that's certainly processed foods and the weakest cult-like science that human kind ever practised. To this day doctors are still advising patients to avoid saturated fats, even though there's zero evidence of saturated fats provoking cancer or heart disease or obesity. To this day you can see low-fat products, like low-fat milk that's artificially coloured and enriched with powdered milk, being sold because of health claims. Expect to see Omega-3 in bananas.
Ulrich Drepper strikes again: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12701

For a smart guy, when he's wrong he is completely wrong. And any good work he might have done is wiped out by his arrogance. Not to mention he prevented bugs from being fixed.

But here is my favourite bug that cannot be fixed:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650371

Basically, the number of steps on Gnome volume control can't be configurable because apparently there are no situations you would ever want to do that. Except for hardware setups that don't report back volume information...
Not sure if I agree with the article, but I'm always fascinated with how the classics can relate to modern times.

I'm also old enough to remember 30 or so years ago when Japan was the rising power that terrified everyone (watch the film Rising Sun). We all know how that played out. I'm a Brit, but in matters like this I would never bet against America.
Microsoft Store accidentally lists new Lumia 950 flagships online
Eh, he might actually be right. I seem to remember seeing a study saying something like that, but I can't find it after my contractual maximum of 5 minutes of Googling.
> the history is flooded with geargenerator.com addresses

I'm seeing this a lot in apps these days. In many places I think it is intentional: where the entire state of the current view can be encoded in the URL it effectively gives you a "free" undo feature and can be quite useful (like when I'm playing with potential new running routes in Google maps).
Better solution, don't allow governments to spy in the first place.
Facebook and Google don't want to give up data, they are effectively being coerced into handing over data.
This is very true. And commute distances. I've found my time allocated to exercise goes down with increased commute time. I've also found my commute distances go up with home prices, as i need to go further out to afford the same amount of space.
At http://codeboard.io we use them to compile and execute the user-written programs.

I guess that's not the typical use of Docker because there are a number of security concerns. We do a number of things to mitigate those but isolation is not as good as with a full VM.

However, containers are so fast that we can create -> execute -> destroy containers for every single "compile" and "run" action.

Another big advantage, imho, is the Docker Remote API [1] which makes it very easy to integrate Docker in your app.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/reference/api/docker_remote_api_v1.2...
Didn't for me, only /usr/local itself.
Why isn't Python more widely used in Enterprise and will it ever be?
I'm aware of that. You didn't however have such a reliance on cars, nor the convenience afforded to having a car (e.g., the popularity of drive-thrus now, which were only getting started in 1980). There is such easy access to things like Netflix and Steam - it is very easy these days to waste entire days away without even noticing.
Introduction in Extreme Value Theory [1]

[1] http://www2.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo/wiki/lib/exe...
Strictly speaking, that is not true, as Venice and Mackinaw Island demonstrate.
... there are just 256 values to be learned

This is a very good point and it's the reason why I don't find much value in GAs. There is an inherent conflict between "an algorithm for a specific problem" (which can be optimized to run in a short time - the above problem can be reduced to a lookup in a 256 x 2 bit matrix and thus run in O(1)) and "an algorithm for any problem (in a class)" which, while theoretically capable of finding a solution, is prohibitive in time and/or space.

As far as I can tell, GAs are barely any better than a random walk and thus not useful for any non-trivial problems. I am not yet sure if NNs are in the same category, though I suspect they are.
I've worked for organizations where you could be disciplined for not stripping out certain data from a database before using it for testing - primarily SSN and email addresses, but it's absolutely necessary at times where using real data will allow you to identify the cause of an issue whereas troubleshooting blindly on test data could take 10 times as long.
Well at least we shit on everyone's privacy equally. So that's a nice silver lining.
I'm kind of tired of these studies. They don't know why we are fatter. Personally, I think it's a lot of factors, and maybe even a virus?

That aside, moderate exercise has so many positive benefits, why not do a little. I have no idea if it helps lose weight, but working up a slight sweat daily, has helped me greatly over the years. Not so much with weight, but psychologically. Yes--it's been my major drug since 8th grade. (It seems like 8th grade is when society injects those needles of stress, on so many levels?) I do other drugs, but exercise has been my major addiction for years. I don't tell people. I'm actually embarrassed by it.

I've been fat and skinny. When I was fat, I didn't need to exercise as much in order to get the psychological benefits from exercise--in my case, it's always been some kind of cardio.

My point is if you don't feel well, and you don't have any physical reason not to exercise; give it a shot. You don't need to do marathons; just walk(fast, or slow, or run small distances--then walk). Exercise until you work up a good sweat.(I need at least 45 minutes now, but when I was heavier I just needed 20 minutes/daily. That was a hidden benefit from being overweight?) I guarantee after a little while, you will feel better. You might lose weight. You might improve your blood numbers. I can guarantee you will feal better, and will get to like the slight muscle pain the next day. In my case
I need to exercise daily. Some people get the psychological boost from just exercising occasionally. I think your occupation plays a role? My father worked construction and was always sweaty. I would never tell him to exercise. You will come to like the slight muscle pain the next day. I've been around people who don't have any pain the next day, but not me. I ache when I arise. Yes, your legs/body will hurt when you wake up the next day. I've never had anyone tell me to be be prepared to hurt the next day, but the hurt becomes a good hurt with time.

I've always hated getting up in the mornings, and don't know if my exercise régime is to blame, but once I get going; I'm glad I worked up a sweat the previous day. (I sugesseted sweating because, in my experience, if I don't sweat profusely; I don't get the same psychological bump. Maybe it's psychosomatic--I am a bit of a Nut?
1. Employers want to get 40h work out of every employee

2. Employees don't want to take a 20% cut to their salary
osx just got selinux?
My MacTex (Latex) installation broke for the same reason. Luckily, all I had to do was set put "/Library/TeX/Root/bin/universal-darwin/" in my $PATH and change the path of "pdtlatex" and "bibtex" to the GUI tools I use. But still, I lost about an hour or so trying to figure out what is happening.
One thing I'm wondering about: do opposing gears always need to have the same form for the teeth? Also, what are the constraints that lead to the form of the teeth? I can imagine that one constraint is that the teeth must "roll" onto each other. But are there more constraints?
The complaints I replied to above were directly to a product page, and this is no product page. Therefore their complaints are simply misguided.

And what you want is irrelevant, are they not allowed to put up a website like this you think?
Yeah, iPhone a very very unpopular for this reason, right?
You have the same amount of control, this is an option you can disable if you need to. I think the amount of people who need that is very small, even among technical crowd.
Homebrew troubles aside, does System Integrity Protection means the end of OpenVPN and FUSE on Mac OS? Those need to add kernel modules and such.
They do have full control - see the bit about being able to disable/enable via recovery mode. I for one am very happy to have moved on from an era where desktop security was abysmal and compromises lurked around every corner.
I work as an actuary and are somewhat used to seeing calculations like these. They often point to very large tail risks, for example in catastrophe modelling like windstorm, or in this case violent conflict. What makes me somewhat doubt the applicability of these models is that they often statistically encapsulate what you already know:

Life is fragile (to borrow Talebs word). Weather, environment (think supervulcanoes) and man itself (violent conflict, nuclear events) all have the capacity to do enormous damage and are a threat to society.

I know it's a variation on the age old question "What's the use of #$this_science?", but even Talebs own narrative goes into making systems 'antifragile'. You can only make systems antifragile for so far as the causes of the fragility are understood and manageable. So for an insurer we can do something with a 1-in-200 chance of total ruin: don't insure. A society can take measures to build earthquake-resistant buildings. Perhaps even move away cities from supervolcanoes.

But in case of violent conflict: What can we do to prevent the US - China war? (To name another now trending topic [1]) Or the next black swan conflict?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309448
(edit, thanks!: changed link to The Thucydides Trap: Are the U.S. And China Headed for War?)
Couldn't this be achieved with imagemagick's builtin blur + histogram?
Isn't the goal to prevent malware from modifying core system files? How different is this than a simple mandatory access implementation? As long as it is possible to disable it, should I choose to, I am not outraged.
Yeah - wide variety of content that's well-indexed. Any better suggestions?
I have no particular expertise in this area, but I've been making the "we don't know why people are fat" argument to whoever will listen for a while. Doctors (socially, not at an appointment FWIW), academics… I'm actually quite surprised how often they've been thinking along the same lines and/or they are convinced by the general idea.

basically:

People have been getting fatter, to pathological levels for quite a while. The phenomenon is global. The conventional explanation is too much for and not enough exercise, caloric surplus.

This is not nonsensical. We know that caloric restriction leads to weigh loss. We can also see that various other approaches can result in weight loss. Carbohydrate restriction, for example. But, this doesn't give us a complete (or possibly even relevant) answer.

This requires another 'why' and a 'why now.' All it takes is a small sustained caloric surplus over long periods to reach obesity. People have had access to these calories, in large populations or in pockets for a long time. There have been periods of regional caloric wealth and certainly periods of caloric wealth within subcultures/classes. If caloric surplus is the key idea, why do we have these caloric surpluses today.

There were sedentary workers even in ancient times, certainly in the 20th century. Today's sedentary worker is fatter than yesteryear's. Today's carpenter is fatter than a carpenter in 1972. Why? A carpenter in 1972 had plenty of access to calories, similar physical lifestyle.

IMO, this is an epidemic and we need an explanation that works at epidemic levels. We need to explain the change in populations weight, not differences in individual's weight. The answer to the first is probably different to the second.

"Gut biome" may be an answer. Antibiotics. Parasites are another interesting possibility.

In any case, I don't think it's coincidence that fad diet books and other pop science is so successful. We do not have an answer from science. I don't eves think the right question is usually asked.

Why did we all get so fat?
The majority of people have children. Sucks for you, but I'd rather it suck for you and the rest of the few asshole asocial hermits, than suck for all of us. Though if you like money so much, maybe we could pass in a law that you can trade in your fertility for a tax cut.
How can you say 'Tired developers write /shit/ code.' and then 'So there may be an occasional 60 hour week'?

Is that a 5 day week, so they're working 12 hours a day? Surely they will be tired after that?
The worst part about people who respond to bug reports in that way is that for most people, it just intimidates you into thinking you are wrong, and stupid for even asking. It's like an amature trying to beat a lawyer in court, you can't win, even if you're right.
Soods good. How do you monitor expenses sent on all different teams / channels ?
Transcranial direct current stimulation improves reading efficiency (2012) [pdf]
So you'd want all those programs to run as root? Isn't that against any notion of security?
>so do so at your own risk.

sudo su at your own risk, hehe.
It's the same for management consultants.

Just use a generic project name. "Major RTS Franchise, 90% Metascore, ##M sales" and then list your responsibilities.
Yes; like the article says it is justified for the same heads that get bonuses to get the penalties too when things go bust.
This guy: https://twitter.com/Tulpamania posted about the attack on 28th Sept...
Can we deal with the war with Russia first? You know, the one with the Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine and the other one in Syria with the US proxy forces attacking a Russian ally?

The future is probably more of this sort of deniable medium-intensity conflict.
This technique was already used in the 1930s by people living close to the powerful AM transmitters in Berlin and Hamburg to run electric lights. It was outlawed, though.
Don't all these have a schwa when you say them?