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Famo.us business should be selling books and webinars on how to raise crazy money. They are definitely awesome at that.
> So because of the mostly theoretical threat of baseband vulnerabilites, we shouldn't bother securing the software running on the application processor?

There's nothing theoretical about the attacks on GSM: there are many attacks which have been demonstrated in the wild. [1][2] [3] And while there is a hypothetical vulnerability in the fact that closed-source processors may be backdoored, at least the AES instructions included in x86 haven't been broken yet. A comparable attack to the GSM attacks would be something like viewing a plaintext transmitted over 802.11i, which, as far as I know, hasn't happened yet.

[1] http://www.gsm-security.net/faq/gsm-a5-broken-security.shtml
[2] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/gsm-encryption-...
[3] http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/0148251/nsa-able-to-c...
not only that, but back in the day brick was the fancy expensive option, today it isn't. those with big budgets and ambitious design goals choose other materials (steel, glass, etc.)
I think these are pretty common heuristics among experienced R users. However the article missed one of the most important steps: read the code.
We have the same issue here in Australia. The quality of recent brick work is terrible, even the bricks are worse. It seems brickies are unable (or unwilling) to lay bricks anymore.
• The audio is subjected to low-pass or all-pass
filtering, which can result in broad peaks becoming
slanted ramps.
• The amount and stereo separation of deep bass content
is reduced for vinyl, to keep the stylus from being
thrown out of the groove.

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Myths_%28Vinyl%29...

http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cds-may-actually-sound-bet...
Twitter would be great without a 140 character limit. Impossible to put much substance in tweets.
>So buy at IPO with options? In FB's example that'd have performed particularly well eh?

There are no Options trading on IPO's. Typically options start trading 3 months after an IPO.
Businesses with high fixed costs (like airlines) generally need to be some kind of monopoly to survive. Some monopolies are based on difficult to duplicate quality (Apple) or network effects (Windows). Sometimes it's regulatory. But without some protection from price wars, high-fixed costs business usually end up in a death spiral.
4. The 19th century buildings which were shoddily built (the majority) have been torn down. It's the same bias that makes people claim old appliances were built better than modern ones.

The article's author is not wrong. The average 1980's brickwork building is built less well than the average 100 year old building. However, 100 years ago buildings probably were built worse on average than today. Both of those statements can be true at the same time.
From 10 years of working as a sysadmin in a Psych department, one constant in life I've learned is that Psychologists are the most incompetent, fanciful egoists in all the sciences. They have no idea what is going on basically. Or, put as a friend of mine said, "People who go into Psychology are precisely those that do not intuitively understand it already." Implying that most of us have a decent, commonsense appraisal of how things work, but psych people are the most clueless of the clueless, that's why they go into a field (first falling for its false promises) that professes to explain life's mysteries to them. None of this is surprising, except perhaps that they scored so far away from the median.
I'm pretty sure they don't care about insulation that much at Dartmouth. There's a huge steam plant on campus, and all the brick dorms are equipped with old-fashioned steam radiators that have two settings - over-bearingly hot, and "boil my pot of ramen noodles." It's common to see the dorm windows wide open when it is -20 F in February, with students trying to regulate the temperature to a livable level.
This actually helps me articulate what I don't like about Spotify and why I don't use it, they only seem to have modern remasterings off all of the albums from the 70s, 80s and 90s that I'd want to listen to, but they lose a lot of the feel of the originals that I'm used to.
That's definitely something to figure out. I have a few thoughts about it, I just didn't wanted to keep the post short(er). But yeah that's a great point.
One thing I noticed on my travels in the US was that it's always possible to see into cubicles. Everywhere else it's impossible to see any part of anyone using them but in the US it's normal to be able to see inside. I have no idea why that is.
Big Data, No Thanks
I guess you can disclaim speaking for your employer, but I don't get why you'd disclaim your credentials.
This "nicotine is more addictive" concept is hard to understand for me. For the reasons I outline above. The timeline and severity of withdrawal symptoms aren't that different. The relapse to previous use levels isn't that different.

A huge factor in how "bad" each is however seems to be in the responses to relapse. There's disapproval in people's responses to someone taking up nicotine again, but if someone is back to drinking coffee, there's at most a "oh drinking coffee again bob?". These factors in the consequences regarding a slip up or relapse make it hard to judge how "addictive" something is independent of the socialization of it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Yes, I think that's a good idea.
What was hard to understand?
It's actually not an issue at all if, like John Oliver, you just care about making a point on a comedy program and don't care about being at all accurate. Snowden is a whistleblower who went far beyond the scope of responsible whistle blowing. That's why he is correctly seen as both a traitor and a hero.
This comment starts with the proposition that there is no choice available between price and quality. Then there are numerous anecdotes that reveal a preference for price over quality. b^)

In other words, you appear to be in violent agreement.
Really? I recently tried Twitter and those 2 were the near the first ones I added along with Ken Popehat. There's so much RTing and noise I found it rather uninteresting. HN has a way, way, higher signal-to-noise ratio. Twitter feels like a constant competition to see who can write clever one liners.

Even with a few follows, it became entirely unmanageable. Plus the Twitter web UI sucks so much that trying to catch up is a nightmare. Clicking anything causes a saving throw vs bad engineering to determine if I'll be reset to the top of my stream. Plus it's slow (as in laggy UI).

Despite being super excited at first (hey, it's 2015 maybe I'll "get" Twitter this time around and find it as awesome as all these smart people do), I quickly ended up not using it at all.

Edit: I'll note that I think very highly of Thomas and Ken and other people I followed, and in other venues they seem to provide tons of reading value. Not that they should be obligated to do so on Twitter, of course! Just that if even high-quality folks don't make a compelling usecase for staying on Twitter, I'm not sure how I'd ever get value out of it.
My point is, if you are concerned about "clean breathing air" you should be lobbying against automobiles ... not vapers.
Doesn't that depend on what type of playback you are doing? More and more playback these days is done via digital transfer with the volume set in software at the sending end, to amplifiers at fixed volume, such as many multi-room systems.

If I airplay a song from my iPhone and have the volume at 50% set in software, then a few extra bits can help. Not sure if it makes a noticable difference, but it's a digital mixing scenario occurring at playback. If you play at extremely low volume it should be noticable.
Is the brick actually holding up the building? In many modern buildings, it's just a veneer, about 1cm thick. The steelwork holds it up. The new Box.net HQ in Redwood City looks like a brick building, but it's not; it's steel and concrete with about 1cm of brick on the outside.

There's some nice work being done with brick today.[1] Some of this is gentrification, built to fit in with existing brick buildings, or to imitate them in new construction. All those examples have recessed windows, although not structural stone lintels. Many lintels today are precast stone and decorative; steel is carrying the load.

Robotic bricklaying is here.[2]

In earthquake country, you really don't want tall brick buildings where the brick is structural. San Francisco is very anti-cornice; in even minor earthquakes, overhanging masonry cornices tend to fall off and kill people.

[1] http://www.bdcnetwork.com/7-emerging-design-trends-brick-bui...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppk4O7iyzPI
I just not sure how much choice you can afford when going up against a state actor. I would say spreading the "blame" and being a public figure was quite crucial to increasing the odds of success and providnig less incentive for the US government to take action.
Today you would have been publicly shamed on social media by outrage culture and then fired.
WebGL Water Demo
Funny, I would say that the perception of this as a violation is something only felt by those who don't understand that the whole point of putting your nerves outside your body is to expose them to the world. If you wanted to keep them private, all you had to do was nothing.

Or to boil it down to John Oliver terms since you seem to be a fan, nobody's going to see any pictures of your dick unless you take pictures of your dick.
They are contracts of adhesion and by definition are explicitly NOT negotiated contracts. They are 'take it or leave it' much like insurance policies.
Kazinator has the last word on what he meant, but his original post, which is short, clear, and to-the-point, contains no such qualifications.
Sorry for the error. I should have added that- USA to Europe.
The masons and architects have a lot more to care about these days. Even so, they should have gotten the flashing and water flow right (even cheap 80s houses usually have slanted window sill).

Oh, and the insulation reduces drying of the brick to the interior, which can cause it decay within a decade if not done right: http://www.bluegreengroup.ca/bluegreen-launches-a-study-on-a... (though that's not the case here).
For the same reason you see X and Vim being referred to as Linux software.
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This is a clear example of survivorship bias.

Buildings from 100 years ago that still stand today necessarily must have been those that were most carefully constructed or those that have been thoughtfully preserved. This creates a biased comparison between the highest quality buildings of the past and an average (or perhaps worse than average) building from modern times.

This article could conclude that not all brick buildings today are superior in construction to the highest quality buildings built 100 years ago, but making a more general statement would be a fallacious extrapolation.
Well, ISDS – which, obviously, is a way to give up parts of sovereignty (not necessarily bad) – has some specific exceptions that make it unlikely it can be used against the US, instead mostly against the other partners.

This gradient of power reminds of the colony-empire relationship of one entity having might over another. (though not nearly comparable, I used it as hyperbole)

In a good treaty both the US and any partners – like Japan, Singapore, or New Zealand – would get the exact same rights.
To me the biggest question is what, exactly, Square does? Years ago they were the company that made it easy for people to accept credit card payments who otherwise wouldn't want to / be able to (mom & pop stores, farmers' markets, etc).

But you don't build a multi-billion dollar company just there, it seems that the margins are too thin and the volume just isn't there to make up for it.

Since then, they've done their Point of Sale device (not just the dongle), which I haven't heard much about. They also have their small-business-loans side--are they a bank / lending agency? They say that it's technically not a loan, but it's close enough for me.

They also do (did?) payroll services for small businesses?

I guess when I look at them I see them with a lot of irons in the fire, but with none of them doing particularly well. To me it seems like they've tried a bunch of things, none of them has really stuck, so they want more money to...do what? Keep trying them?

Full disclosure, I worked for a company for a few years that was in a similar-ish space, so I am probably biased against them. We fought a lot of similar battles, of trying to create a margin inside of credit card margins, and I'm fairly convinced that it's not a way to scale a billion dollar business.
"This is partially circumvented by 1/2"

"chaining together multiple messages. 2/2"

The best thing about having to keep things within 140 characters is that everyone else has to keep things within 140 characters. If I wanted to read their blog - I'd go read their blog. If I wanted Twitter to be like Tumblr, I'd have a Tumblr.
Take it, build the experience on your resume. Learn everything you can. It may take 2 years, but you will have more choices with the experience on your resume.
Working for free
It's a Contract of Adhesion. Adhesion contracts are, by definition not negotiated.
Ryanair have recently changed their marketing strategy to try and tone down their heartless image and appear to be nicer. See, e.g., http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/02/ryanair-new-...
peace.cm

Provide me with your contact info if you are interested.
Most companies don't allow employees to moonlight for direct competitors.
things can get boring or drag on depending on the project. I have a side project outside of work that keeps me going.
Well a much better way to do optical guidance would be to do what some cruise missiles do, look at the ground below and find the most similar image in a big database of aerial photographs. The insane thing about this approach is that it was done in the 50s![0]

Another approach would be to do what insects do and use optical flow. Essentially look at how fast the ground is moving to figure how fast the UAS is moving and integrate to figure out where you are. This is exactly how optical mice work, in fact optical mice sensors have even been used to do this. Below is an example of a quadcopter that employs such system.[2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_flow
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbS1N--bT0w
Relevant? Maybe just food for thought.

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/08/do-what-...
If you are curious about this topic you should bring it up with some architects from different countries. From my understanding there are indeed regressions in building quality in some countries but it's not entirely clear what causes it other than decisions that have been made at the time.

In particular the brick did not decrease in quality but the way they were built did. For instance for a while people paid less attention to protecting buildings from water damage to achieve more interesting designs.

A particular crazy architectural style that suffers a lot from this is British brutalist architecture.
The irony is that extreme dynamic compression only became popular after all of the mediums we listen to (CDs, MP3, digital radio, etc) went digital and we got >90 db dynamic range and signal-to-noise ratio. Tapes and records are typically less than 60 db. So our digital music is capable of being as dynamically expressive as our ears but we clamp/ruin the dynamic range down to <20db.
It appears you're conflating a stand on a particular issue with the others your parent poster brought up. A cursory look at the two candidates' platforms shows their positions to be widely divergent, especially when it comes to foreign policy and defense.
Why is that a good start when there are so many who are straight up open about making it harder?
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Perhaps it is simply that they, unlike Snowden, don't blase-ly reveal classified information.
I remember a story that Russian government required MS to deliver their source code of windows to prove there are no backdoors. This will be banned now and no one will ever be allowed to ask for source code to prove it's safe and spyware free.
I had to backport a fix for a similar vulnerability in a Seam installation three years ago. The solution at the time was to limit the directories and sources from which serialized object representations could be read.
its a little longer than 2-5 years but I remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus was popular around 2001
They say that functional (and by all accounts fantastic) code was delivered for the winning $1 bid, and then they claim that the experiment was a success. But was it really? Is a $1 winning bid in the spirit of this? Couldn't someone who just wants to pad their resume submit $1 bids for everything, thereby "winning" 100% of the time and depriving of actual income these legitimate businesses who might count on these contracts for survival?

I'm not making a judgment either way, but allowing a $1 bid seems... strange. Are there other considerations that go into the "success" of the platform, or success merely defined by the delivery of functional code for the price of the winning bid?
Garry really is as remarkable as all these comments are saying. He has an original mind and a kind heart and that's a damn fine combination. I'm so glad to know him. Yay Garry!
What nonsense are you referring too?

>There are factual, legitimate issues here.

So you believe ESR here? You do know who you are listening to right?
http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2015/11/surviving-an...

Though I wish I had your traffic. I think I would be making a lot more money if I had good traffic.
Nah. Just number the first 100 tanks with "1", then start numbering at 1000000, then make another 100 lot numbered 10...
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- XAML

- XUL

- Layout managers like Motif, Swing, Tk, ...

I never had with them half the problems I do have making HTML/CSS work properly across browsers.
Unfortunately, looking at stars/watchers as a metric is not as effective as it is for more popular languages. R has a lot of great software and community but the software development scene is not at all as populated as it is for Ruby/Python/JavaScript. Look at the repo for ggplot2, which is one of R's most generally useful and best-in-class libraries:

https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2

Just 1,500 stars and 200 watchers...stars obviously aren't a reflection of the library's quality or value, but there's at least a correlation with how many people are on Github and who are tracking the package. I don't know what it's like to develop for CRAN, and it possibly has an advantage in that a maintainer has to work harder to get it on to CRAN than on to Github...but on the other hand, it doesn't seem as conducive to getting user feedback, which seems critical for rooting out obscure bugs or breaking changes caused by dependencies.

edit: Speaking of R's github obscurity and Hadley Wickham's work...dealing with time is as frustrating as it is in every other language. Many, many hours were wasted struggling with conversions and only randomly did I stumble across Wickham's lubridate package, which on Github [1] has 181 stars compared to 23,000 and 2,300 for moment.js and Chronic, respectively...and I didn't find it or think to look for it on Github...I think I stumbled across it on a random blog post. I'm not sure how discovery works on CRAN.

[1] https://github.com/hadley/lubridate
You can get away with only using the count and the maximum because of the assumption of uniformity. Once that assumption goes away, the assumption no longer works.

If earlier tanks are much more likely to be captured, then the number of samples will be exaggerated compared to the maximum number seen, so you'll underestimate production. If earlier tanks are much less likely to be captured, then the number of samples will be smaller compared to the maximum, and you'll overestimate.
To each their own I guess. Those sound even worse personally.

"Inhalation: Low hazard for usual industrial handling." <- Industrial handling probably doesn't include smoking it....
He did actually have that option. If he had merely stolen and leaked information about two or three blatantly unconstitutional programs, which surely would have been very simple, I doubt quite so many people would be calling him a traitor. I certainly wouldn't.
Since Microsoft and Apple spend hundreds of millions developing that code. To let a country 'inspect' it is to put valuable intellectual property at risk. Would you trust China to inspect your source code for a project you spent millions developing a unique technology? Should Boeing open source their aircraft wing designs? To suggest such is ludicrous. Do you really want governments with access to everyone's source code?
Yes, you're right. In a fit of silliness I was testing only with the ones that are a single code point, though.
Where are you getting that it's slow?
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He could have limited the scope of his leaks, or stayed in the US to face trial and persecution. Either would be more admirable than what he has done.
Oh. What's your email account password, please?
I'm confused. The article apparently thinks that it's fine to favorite something you don't actually think is your favorite, contra twitter. But then why not heart something you don't actually like? The logic doesn't seem to work out.
You might be browsing though TOR or a VPN but if you ever dare log into your account, you will be identified. There could be spying from outside or inside, or keys compromised. So you can read, but you cannot use your accounts on any site, or make perfect isolation of the anonymous account and never log into it from your real IP. This feels more like trying to maintain perfect hygiene than hacking. People will be sloppy and a single mistake can unravel a previously anonymous activity. The whole process will be much more difficult and people would not be disposed to do all that work, thinking that they will be OK without it. Because the level of discipline necessary for real anonymity is huge, I think we need to focus on that problem.

I envision a modified browser that has a registry of all your private information and enforces it's protection from the web browsing activity. You will not be able to send over the net your name, email, nickname, identifying cookies, your IP will be hidden, basically it will be like a nanny protecting you from sending any identifying information over the lines. That would be a place where people will be anonymous, but, again, you can't contact anyone you know or use any account that you have used from your real IP in the past, so it will be a different kind of browsing experience.
What kind of people are really switching for $5? Do people actually look at a multi-stop nightmare that'll save $25 and say "yeah, makes sense"? (Then end up spending as much on overpriced water?)

I suppose it's true but it just seems so, so surreal.
He qualified it with the Alan Perlis epigram:

"The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information."

My "string type" examples to help uncover defects in parsing & yanking were not relevant to Alan Perlis criticisms. The "hiding information" of strings is an orthogonal issue.
Is there any reason to believe that the "old" building wasn't just recently repointed? This seems like the most likely answer.
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