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With regards to microfluidics, I've always understood the problem mostly to do with business - nobody from the incumbents wants a Moore's law in an industry without a lot of potential growth.

And that story fits the "new disruptive startup" story well.
The commission to send $100 to Somalia from the UK is 7.5% according to their website.

Imagine working your ass off on a construction site in London to send money to your family in Somalia and realizing that one out of every 13 dollars you earn is being pocketed by these middlemen.

There's nothing to admire here.
The DH parameters created by "dhparam" don't contain any secrets; they're entirely public.

The secrets used in Diffie-Hellman are chosen by the participants in the key exchange at the moment that it's used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...

Here, the dhparam command is creating g and p (well, you're supplying g as a command-line argument, and the command is choosing p); those are the public parameters which can be published anywhere, can be given to anyone, and can be re-used by multiple sites and services (although the last case makes life easier for attackers if the p value is too small, as the researchers indicate it is for some popular Internet standards and software configurations).

When a Diffie-Hellman key exchange happens, the two sites agree (not necessarily in a secret way, indeed normally not in a secret way) on what g and p to use, and then one site secretly chooses a, the other side secretly chooses b, and they do the math that results in both sides knowing the same combined secret without other parties being able to determine it. Only a, b, and the resulting combined secret g^ab mod p are confidential; g and p aren't.

Diffie-Hellman can also provide forward secrecy because you can deliberately forget what values of a and b you used on a particular occasion, and then you can't reconstruct them (unless you can compute discrete logarithms, which is supposed to be difficult). That's not true for key exchange using RSA for confidentiality, where, if you still have the private key, you can still read your messages that were sent to you in the past using that private key.

Ciphersuites in TLS that use Diffie-Hellman in an ephemeral way ("DHE") will still use RSA, but for identifying the server (and optionally the client) and confirming that no man-in-the-middle attack has happened. So, they only use RSA for signatures, not for confidentiality, and they still get forward secrecy if they forget the DH private values associated with individual sessions. (Some servers use the same b value for multiple incoming connections, which reduces the degree of forward secrecy they get: if someone hacked them or seized their server while it still contained a particular b value, that person could decrypt previously recorded TLS sessions with that server that used the same b value.)
Fair enough. Clarified in the post.
There are hiring managers out there who won't hire a female developer because they're just outright sexist.

Do these people actually really exist in 2015, and are there organisations that would allow them to behave like that? I've known quite a few hiring managers, and some of them have definitely made stupid comments about "how nice it'd be to have a hot girl on the team" (though equally they might also make stupid comments about hiring graduates - of either gender - to make cups of tea), but none of them, to my knowledge, would ever have not picked a female candidate who was technically up to the task purely because she was a woman.

Have I just led a sheltered existence?

(I guess I'm talking here about SMEs and larger companies; I suppose if you're a tiny company run by a couple of sexist pigs, then any kind of behaviour is allowed to stand.)
That's ok if you have a known good baseline configuration. In that case it's no different to say a Dockerfile.

However the config management stuff seems to come to light when you've got a mess on your hands and need to rationalise it and make it consistent.

I'm slightly leaning towards the "rebuild with known good baseline" state of affairs these days however even as a long time Ansible user. Rather than upgrade stuff, I build something new alongside and then do a switcheroo nearly every time.

One day, hopefully containers will allow us to have consistent state everywhere.
Neurologically, sports performance can be envisaged as a search for a target in a space. If you are a beginner, then any training that takes you closer to the target is beneficial. So eg a beginner learning tennis will benefit from playing badminton, squash, etc.

However, as you become more expert then the risks are greater (your opponents are better) and the margins are increasingly minimal. So your training has to become incredibly specific. No more badminton if you want to be an excellent tennis player.

Also, for even the world's finest sports players, performance degrades just minutes after practice or competition. This is the purpose of warming up : to fine-tune the nervous system, to bring your performance in the search space as close as possible to the target.

Human systems are chaotic, so performance is subject to fluctuation from even the tiniest perturbations. This is why even the finest sports player cannot expect 100% reliable performance every single time.
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Personally I'm starting to believe in a limited form of something I heard called 'technological determinism' - that it's the technology that shapes society. Your washing machine would be an example. Another would be seeing civil rights movement as enabled by the printing press.
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I don't think this is really related to the comment you're replying to. Whether or not discrimination exists is not the same as whether or not "the value and importance of intersectionality and representation" (article quote) is something we should consciously pursue. How does that not carry a bias towards reverse discrimination? I agree with the OP, I'm scratching my head about how the article simultaneously argues that we need to treat everyone equally, but also need to tally their intersectionality combo bonus points and force an equal "representation." You can either argue for ignoring all labels or for special label-based treatments, not both.

To take it into a perhaps more productive but related area, how would you say we should overcome bias? It seems to me if you try too hard, you will just introduce another form of bias.
This is all well and good, but the devil is in the details. Like rdeboo says, what happens when you do need to change the datastore config? Databases famously need plenty of care and attention to achieve optimal performance. They are decidedly not fire and forget systems. How do I tweak my postgresql performance parameters in the immutable world?
That's a good list, but I think you have left out subtle discrimination. Things like the IAT show that there's a great deal of implicit racial bias in the US. [1]

I also have never heard of a company actually having quotas. What I have heard is people gathering statistics and saying, "Hey, this looks pretty bad. What are we doing that might cause this? What can we do to fix our [generally unconscious and unnoticed] biases in our hiring processes?"

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/08/ac...
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The article is about last century. Smartphones are this century's invention. However, both appliances and mobile tech only show how significant and underestimated the effect of technology on society is. We like to think that technology is just some weird addition or convenience, but it seems to me that it is technological advancements that fundamentally transform society.
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An implementation to play with would be very nice...
Doesn't that just increase the gain of doing the refueling?
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The "abundance" in your world is limited mostly to Western nations and comes at the expense of everyone else.
You're assuming that a) good-speakerness is a fixed quality, and b) that the speaker selection process is something like pulling bingo numbers. Neither is true.
I'm a little shocked that you mentioned Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon without mentioning the Erdős number.
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It's funny that on the one hand we'll soon have something as advanced as self-driving cars, and on the other we still need to iron our clothes, wipe off the dust and take garbage manually :)
That's people constantly reinventing Lisp, refusing to use the right tool for the job. Greenspun's Tenth Rule also comes to mind.
Not just "Western nations", but western companies. And by western companies, I mean the Cayman-registered holding companies that record all the profit for multinationals.

And perhaps a few billionaires as well.
You know that brown people went through this years ago as did asians? We had to fight to be apart of society. Now we have the privelege of being "model minorities" while others don't.

She talks about being black because she is black and shes talking about her feelings and perspective. It's ignorant to dismiss that.

Unfortunately for many people of color. They dont have the same opportunities that a white or asian person would have so you cant understand their persoective so it's best to listen because there are thousands of examples out there. The more you listen to them the more youll learn.

And she's shitting on the industry for ignoring races while being inclusive to white women. It's obviously great that women are getting an opportunity but it's ignorant to ignore women of color.

Theyre speaking not because they have the most to win. Theyre speaking because they want to be equal, which they arent in the tech world and outside of it. they want to go from below equality to at equality, not above it.

Frankly, i'm embarassed when minorities speak from their privilege ignoring the fact that indians/asians have been through it until white america said "no no guys, these asians are cool". That hasnt happened with black people yet.
> Smartphones are this century's invention.

If you notice, I had deliberately used the word "cellphone" instead of "smartphone". Cellphones (1980s) were 20th century technology. Many poor villagers don't have smartphones but they do have cellphones.
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So, what's today's interpretation of the word "harboring"? The 9/11 terrorists lived in Germany, this could mean that Germany is considered fair game.

Just giving another indication on how vague this wording is.
Be inclusive and not just try to hit quotas.
> You can only abuse it as long as you have points.

You seem to be implying that this is some sort of road block or hurdle for those interested in gaming the system. Unfortunately, it's not even a speed bump. I think you underestimate just how resourceful and clever these people are. I'm a mod of a few large subreddits on reddit and I can assure you, "having points" is no more a hurdle to them than saying "on reddit, you have to have an account to vote".
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That reminds me another notion from The Mythical Man-Month; Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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OLPC crushed itself. FLOSS fans were clamouring to develop for it, seeing it as a way to bring emerging minds into the OSS mindset. It created a lot of buzz. Then OLPC jumped into bed with Microsoft, and the FLOSS geeks were driven away, with no similar group of developers to replace them. OLPC made a massive miscalculation, and never regained the buzz they had back then.
While I generally agree with the sentiment of this article, Rotten Tomatoes and its ilk have problems of their own. Virtually every small-budget independent film on the site winds up with a very high rating, likely thanks to the big-budget hating, pretentious film critics whose reviews it compiles and summarizes. Likely for the same reason, some larger budget films that receive high RT scores from audiences receive low RT scores from professional critics.

In short, it's impossible to trust RT's ratings of independent films, as they just can't all be that good, or its ratings of big budget films, as they can't all be that bad. If a movie looks good to you, go see it - whether or not RT tells you to.
One job I would mention is inspection of power lines. Having watched videos of inspectors actually stepping out of helicopters onto the lines is enough to think this is a good candidate.

The simple matter is there are so many jobs that can be done with drones that we haven't likely imagined. The simple ones are easy; checking crops, structures like those found on suspension bridges, to simply being airborne over large forested areas looking for fires.
Oh yea, that's not how it was when I was using it for a few weeks. Seems they must have a recent issue.
Right. My misread, I apologize.

The reason I read 'smartphone' instead of 'cellphone' is that they're related to an observation I find important - that smartphones are actually essential tools for the poor. Internet access gives significant quality of life improvements.
It is interesting that they suggest that a room that progressively gets colder through the night might help you sleep better. I'm currently living in a fairly warm part of Japan and we have no heat in the house (or air conditioning). I definitely sleep better here than I do when I'm in Canada or the UK.

There are probably many other factors (for example, I sleep on the floor in Japan and use a "pillow" that is really just a sack of grain -- it might sound strange, but it is so much nicer than the overly soft trappings of western bedrooms IMHO). I had never really considered temperature as being a factor, though.
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It's not because of technology. We just tend to solve problems in order of how easy is to create a business model out of them.
felt like i was watching an "apple" keynote ad for a new product

cool piece of tech, but what got to me was the subscription. based on the FAQ, subscription cost $22-33 a month. expand that to a year, around $250-400 a year, and add it to the hardware price ($400)...total=$800. That's pretty hefty just for a tech like that. Might as well invest in a mac air instead. Sounds like this team marketed this too high.

in addition, why would you mention in your video that there will a fix subscription price and no freemium or premium package, but FAQ section, you mention you might look at other levels for more complex bundle? sounds like I might need to pull out my starburst and think about this contradiction.
I'm from an East European country and can confirm that the pickle obsession seems to be a lot less relevant for the newer generations. But I think the cause for this is better access to western style supermarket chains and not technological.
The question of legality related solely to its use within London. There has never been an issue outside of London and I imagine that before Uber other taxi firms used apps, it was just the threat to black cabs that brought this action.
My take on it is that next level of disruption in the home requires a high degree of AI or robots to work.

Ironing clothes has to cope with intricate clothing types and shapes. Wiping dust has to navigate a space around obstacles (like a self driving car?). Taking the bins out has to work with a hugely varying terrain - steps, doors, gates, etc - unless you install something custom to the building.

That said, these solutions are the obvious way to automate the tasks we do today. May be the disruption comes form clothes that don't need ironing, spaces that don't collect dust.
And to go further the inspiration for Bacon Number is the Erdős Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number

And a fun combination of them is the Erdős–Bacon number (Carl Sagan with 6, Natalie Portman with 7).
Ah no, seems to work now :)
Eh, it might be a good idea for the small population of tech savvy investors in Silicon Valley who make 6 figures and work within the industry so they can make informed decisions. But the whole SEC regulatory dictum that allows only accredited investors (accreditation based on annual income and net worth, not passing a Series 7 test or what not) can invest in certain forms of securities is a good thing.

Imagine if Joe Schmo reads an article on the home page of the tech section of "his Yahoo" about this new investment vehicle, decided to put all of his 401k money that as safely placed in low-load index funds into a YC fund that didn't particularly do so well when the fund finally matured and he cashed out. I've seen people pissed off at losing 10 bucks on Kickstarter prototypes-- imagine how pissed off Joe would be that he lost 200k because he wanted to "get in on this Web 3.0 stuff".

Those accredited investors regulations do more good than harm mostly because people in aggregate are greedy and don't read prospectus' in their entirety. Most people didn't even read their mortgages in 2007 (or now for that matter, even after the systemic ..situation of 2008), look what happened there.

If you're living in SF and married to someone in tech, odds are you make enough to qualify as an accredited investor anyways-- the per annum barrier is pretty low.
There are a ton of 4, 5, and 6 rated movies. I use IMDb at the video store and won't pickup anything that isn't at least a mid-6.
VR headsets have been here since the 1990's, and nothing ever came of it, despite the tons of productions shots from the point of view of the male performer. Even 3D is extremely rare.

Better fidelity and added depth perception do not bring better illusion of intimacy. It's a red herring.
It wouldnt be tolerated if it was spoken outright. Unfortunately its pretty easy for a hiring manager to dismiss someone officially because of something on her resume or in the interview officially, while being sexist or racist, or just having embedded biases in their head. Ive heard it often enough.
One interesting angle on this is that the grid is decarbonizing (e.g. just a switch from coal to gas can have a big impact).

It seems that currently the two things (modern efficient ICE versus EV) are roughly comparable, but which is improving faster and predicted to continue improving in the future?

Many of the proper scientific studies on this use years old grid data since newer info takes a while to collate and get published, so possibly EVs have already pulled ahead.
Effect of job hopping on prospects outside silicon valley?
Job hopping every one to two years in the bay is so common that nobody minds when they see this behavior on a candidate's resume. However, this view isn't as common in many places where it's a big deal to change employers.

Has anyone found that history of job hopping is an issue when applying for jobs in locations outside of the bay area?
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So many technological improvements, and we are still working 40+ hours per week...
They all become paypal in the end, that is they engage in account holding, closing, freezing etc and the user can't penetrative their opaque decision making process to resolve it. It can be very damaging to a small business or startup to suddenly uddenly find their funds, which usually are required as operational capital, unavailable to them and a 60 day freeze and multiple hoops to jump through to get them released.
The problem with Rotten Tomatoes is that - I suspect- the studios are perfectly able to influence the professional reviewers. Or, more probably, professional reviewers adjust their expectations and judgments on the type of movie they're reviewing. The end result is that every recent shiny pile-of-crap produced by Hollywood gets enthusiastic reviews and therefore excellent scores on RT.

Gravity: RT score 97%

2001 A Space Odissey: RT score 96%

The Martian: RT score 93%

Blade Runner: RT score 89%

If you're looking for an alternative, I use http://www.criticker.com.
It calculates expected movie ratings based on your previous ratings, it's a much better way to decide what's worth seeing and what is not.
Trust me, there is a HUGE business model to be made out of washing and ironing clothes. Many who can afford it have maids to do this. If it was possible to automate these tasks it would be hugely valuable for the provider and the recipient.
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If you have one hour if front of you, I highly recommend this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcTZvNLL0-w

In it they explain how it would be feasible to be on Mars in ten years with current technology and not so much additional fundings.
Apparently that's a PNaCl program, that for some reason got a .PNG extension: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

and whispernet-proxy doesn't show in the list because it is a extension that ships with chrome.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/3qLYze...

It seems to have to do something with talking to nearby devices (by audio channels?) via the copresence API:

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/copresence

https://codereview.chromium.org/438513002/

That's what I could glean from a quick google search...
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My experience has shown that the only movies worth looking at are rated > 7/10 anything below is mostly crap.

But this only works for movies that are mainstream BUT not too real blockbusters. Because stuff like the fast and the furious or transformers gets good ratings anyways.

But I use such ratings only to get something light on a boring evening.

Mostly I watch ArtHaus stuff and don't look at those ratings.
I don't remember when MS entered the W3C but that comment was around IE6 times.
Fantastic writing (Full Disclosure: using uBlock origin I had none of the ad distractions that some mentioned).

Why this case is so puzzling is that it mixes the seemingly pro level like hit with the unpredictability of the location(it took a few coincidences for the car to get up that hill) and seemingly unneeded extra kills.

I was thinking that one explanation would be that someone(individual or state) outsources the killing of the engineer or the cyclist (or both).

This hired gun is a pro but also a loose cannon who enjoys killing just because. So he is no Golgo13.

The other explanation is that it is a completely nonsensical crime, ie someone with military training camped up in those hills with the intention of killing whoever came up there and then left the area. This seems so unbelievable yet it is possible.