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This author and academic gives a wide range of methods.

http://www.lynnekelly.com.au/memory-experiments/
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Url changed from http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-compan..., which points to this.
I'm not American, so your politics are largely irrelevant to me, but as an American I would find it probably worth looking at Obama's stance on bulk surveillance over time. Has he flip-flopped?

If so, either he was persuaded by evidence of its effectiveness in preventing terrorist attacks on the US, or maybe he was persuaded by evidence of its effectiveness after being shown his last 10 years of internet searches, presented on a CD, lying next to the duplicate sitting in an envelope marked "To the Editor, New York Times".
I agree with Shostack. He is talking about removing friction, easing out the learning curve.

The command line make command on GNU/Linux is an example of something that "dumbs down"/makes easy a quick start , as opposed to editing and configuring the Makefile yourself.
Similarly, yum/apt-get take this "dumb down" one step further.

Nothing wrong with removing friction.
Infact this is an idea for a startup right here, remove friction from machine learning/NLP/API.

That is why I responded to shostack in the first place. The response was specific to his question and I got plenty of downvotes on my karma. No worries there :)
I'm almost exactly the same (8am-12pm and 8pm-12am). When I'm working for myself I spend my afternoons reading or playing video games and go back to work in the evening.
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A fun project. Here's another, a lost version of Windows from a parallel universe: http://www.windows93.net/
I agree. Things like:

> where the mechanics who take the planes apart (completely) and put them back together (or almost) may not even be able to read or speak English.

Are completely American (or English-speaking anyway) centric and complete scare mongering. English may be the "language of aviation", but that doesn't mean that repair manuals are not allowed to appear in any other language. The picture the article paints is a bunch of idiotic foreigners staring at English instructions, unable to comprehend them.

Airbus is essentially a French and German company - do you think every maintenance technician and assembly technician on the assembly line speaks good English? It's not beyond the capabilities of either the big aircraft manufacturers or the large maintenance companies to translate the information their workers need into their local language. It also means you can employ the best people for the job, rather than just people who speak good English.
FWIW: Appointment Reminder also does this. It's part of your healthy HIPAA-approved breakfast.

(One of the other things you should strongly consider, if you care about HIPAA compliance, is using either full-disk encryption or encryping the directory where Redis' data file resides. We do this with encryptfs. We also encryptfs the Tarsnap cache directory, which holds recoverable cleartext. Tarsnap archives are encrypted automatically without requiring further work.)

There also exist another dozen or so box-ticking requirements with regards to procedures and documentation, but those are the main rubber-hits-the-hard-disk things you have to do with respect to using Redis for PHI.
I have it on good authority that he does.
I am in prison. God talks.

God says...
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I think you've missed the point. It's not about American/Foreign but the implications of outsourcing things to less developed countries.

My mom has a foundry here in Slovenia and at some point she decided to outsource production of some relatively easy stuff to China, because it seemed cheaper. Well, suffice it to say she stopped after the first batch arrived, in which only about 30% of products were up to standards, which are easy to track in die casting: a few precise measurements and an X-ray, all totalling 5 minutes of work.

So the point is (usually): underdeveloped countries === cheaper and less educated labour + less oversight + lower quality. A recipe for disaster. But as long as profits go up it's not a big deal, right?
> The CIA knew about it in 1964 (probably not in detail) but the Soviets still used thee techniques to unmask three CIA spies per week in 1980.

If you're the CIA and you know the Soviets are using this technique, you don't fix the problem, you use it to your advantage by letting the Soviets unmask the identities of lesser spies while not putting your most important spies on the employee list.
I have been in this position myself and I agree with your stance. Networked software should be secure by default. The assumption should be "networked" == "exposed to the Internet". From my redis.conf:

"By default Redis listens for connections from all the network interfaces available on the server."

In my case the reason Redis ended up exposed to the Internet was another dev "updated the configuration" to the default provided by the package. Okay, perhaps that was the wrong thing to do, but it simply shouldn't be that easy to expose an vulnerable service to the Internet! I understand that people should run firewalls too but a belt and braces approach should really be taken here.

PS. While I'm moaning, Jenkins is another big offender in this respect. I can't be the only person to have tried side-step its own security by having it only bind to localhost and using SSH tunnelling only to find something which can execute arbitrary code is exposed to the public Internet when the configuration is switched back to its default. Yes, a firewall would fix it, but as far as I'm concerned, Jenkins shares some of the blame for being insecure by default in the absence of one.
Could this be behind the excellent Rippings Yarns - The Claw eppisode?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0686865/
Url changed from https://fcw.com/blogs/lectern/2015/11/kelman-facebook-milita..., which points to this.
It's the other way around:
They can give you 3000 years in prison but lifetime is illegal, you can't make more than 40.
The people he quotes quite liberally in his piece, including Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andressen, Peter Thiel, all support Republican presidential candidates. He makes it seem as if their quotes are in support of Democrats. Also, only 129 out of 8000+ founders and investors responded. This doesn't scream selection bias? Maybe Republican founders and investors are less likely to respond to surveys, especially considering how the Brendan Eich situation went down.
Finger trees don't provide O(1) insertion, just O(1) prepend and append.
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You said it yourself:
> a programming language is one Rails bootcamp away

It means that anyone can learn a programming language and become as 'competent' as the 55 years old.
When you have a choice between a 22 year old and a 55 year old, equally competent, who of the two is a better bet ?
Drilling and getting a filling isn't that painful and for some people getting a shot is less pleasant.

There even are some dentists in Germany that drawing teeth without anesthesia, but with the help of hypnosis.
I've always wondered about people that like the old Win2000 or 95 look. And I am hoping you can answer some questions for me.

The actual OS aside, do you prefer the look of Win2000 over the look of Win8?

I get that Win2000 is minimalistic. But it's not too flat that you can't tell what is what. And I like that. But what I hate about it is the colours. Especially the grey, turquoise, and dark blue. They literally nauseate me sometimes. Do you not find the colours off-putting?
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English is not a primary language for quite many people around, you know. And
for those it can take significant effort to metally correct the sentence with
misused "its"/"it's". Try thinking about others sometimes.
Abrasives on enamel! Yay..
Whether or not the maintenance is any good, as a passenger the best airline I've flown with in terms of apparent maintenance (i.e. everything looks like it works) and cleanliness is Emirates. I flew with BA a couple of months ago (in business) and the aircraft were filthy and very old.
Setting Up SSL. Next Week. if you want we can chat something about it.? :)
In the sense that Cocoa or Windows top level window hierarchy is also like a "canvas element".

In other words, like a canvas element which has a full, comprehensive, standard UI library with tons of standard, pre-built widgets (not just the meagre web form controls), including a full featured text widget with all the trimmings, plus a free drawing component of its own (for totally custom UIs and controls).
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I was going to object with "port forwarding is tcp over tcp!" but it turns out after a little research that this is totally wrong and its faster this way than openvpn: http://blog.backslasher.net/ssh-openvpn-tunneling.html . I guess I ended up thinking this because it's how the dynamic port forwarding works?
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Yep. Think of it as creaming off the top 9%.
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I'm sure that will incentivise the creation of more ancient epic literature.
Xenophobic was the exact word that came to mind. I have a close personal relative who spent several years working for one of the airlines mentioned in the article at the Aeroman facility in El Salvador and pictured in that article. I've visited it myself several times. He has also worked at maintenance facilities in the U.S. The article reads xenophobic/sensationalistic.

What is so scary about planes being serviced/maintained at these locations as opposed to in the U.S.? Do they have factual data comparisons of maintenance issues at these sites including maintenance facilities in the U.S.? Or do we just assume that they're inferior and if the maintenance facility is in the U.S. there MUST be less of the issues described in the article and attributed to these remote facilities.

Is the article about the F.A.A. sucking at inspecting sites, and is that the fault of the airlines? Aeroman and other MRO's will all bend over backwards to keep airlines (and their regulators if required) happy with the work being done at their facilities, as it's great money and jobs for those areas. Maybe the article should be less scaremongering and more questioning about why the F.A.A. seems to suck so bad at their jobs (at least that's what I got out of the article, that's not my opinion at all).
It might be obvious, but this should be read as a pedagogical explanation of fourier transforms, not as a historical account. From in the very end of the article:

> Ok, you may doubt the historical accuracy, but the math is solid!
And there are the reddit style down votes as expected...

For the record I'm not saying clapper was in the right or that he shouldn't face charges, but in a country where sanctioned torture is the norm why should unpunished perjury by an official from a spy agency be shocking?
For sure one will come up with nm or dumpbin for wasm, if they really want to.
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This is just bile. Please don't post comments like this to HN.
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Except that the school didn't force them to do anything, and didn't even suggest that it was going to do so - it just asked them, very politely, to think about how their Halloween costumes would look to minority students before they embarrassed themselves. Apparently this is an attack on free speech because it might make white students uncomfortable wearing blackface, though. The students are protesting someone who literally demanded that the university not ask people to think about other's views because it might make them uncomfortable, and called it free speech, and apparently this is them demanding to be "coddled". Because some speech is more free than others.
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And many of those that do know and care simply don't care enough to stand by their principles (or simply would rather pirate stuff in private - which doesn't have the same impact as a union).
The problem with SELinux is that they often get turned off by admins at the first hint of resistance. E.g. Apache won't read from the non-standard directory you've decided to put your app in? Off goes SELinux.

Building in lowest common denominator checks in the applications that the app developer can know won't get in the way makes it less likely the checks will get disabled.

E.g. your web server could disable filesystem access to paths it doesn't need after having read its config files and determined where it's going to log and where it's going to serve files from, so that things keep working as expected for users, possibly making exceptions for really stupid things (like exposing /etc). That would reduce the chance that users start looking for ways to just turn it off.

That makes the two approaches complementary.

I agree with you that most app developers do not care, but that's besides the point for OpenBSD: They care, and they control most of their own userland.

And you don't really need "most" apps to do it anyway. We'd get far just by having most of the highest profile internet facing server applications support it.
I put up most of the TPP on genius.com yesterday [0]. All chapters from 0 to 30 are there except for chapter 20 and the annexes of chapters 2, 12, and 15. I am still working on reformatting the text since formatting is lost when copying from a PDF to an HTML textbox.

I still have not heard back from genius.com support about some of the technical issues I am having: I can't delete/move chapter 20 with the rest, and new chapters do not appear in the collection list ("album" in genius parlance).

If you know anyone with legal expertise who is willing to annotate a few places, please forward them to [0]. Alternatively, please retweet [1]. If you want to read the US government's take on the TPP, this link has a summaries before the full text in each of the chapters [2].

[0] http://genius.com/albums/Transpacific-partnership-tpp-negoti...

[1] https://twitter.com/TeeAyKay/status/663830955971338240

[2] https://medium.com/the-trans-pacific-partnership

If you've made up your mind about the TPP in whichever direction, please let your government know (Use #TPP on Twitter):

Canada:
Prime Minister's Office: http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contactpm

Prime Minister's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau

Minister of International Trade: https://twitter.com/CanadaTrade and https://twitter.com/cafreeland

Members of Parliament (by postal code!): http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parliamentarians/en/Constituencies/Fin...

USA:
White House: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call

White House: twitter https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse

House: http://www.house.gov/representatives/

Senate: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_c...

* I am not affiliated with genius.com, or any political party. I just want an informed decision and the best possible outcome, whatever it may be.

Edit: spacing
AFAIK one can filter on the syscall's arguments.

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

I think it's quite readable and one could modify it easily to whitelist open on "/dev/null".
Secret, but not secret. Secret from the less powerful industries, small and medium businesses, not remotely secret from the more powerful ones. Secret from Non-US industry, not secret from those industries that own congress. Nobody believes hollywood had no idea this was being negotiated as a straight land grab on their behalf. So we all think it's corrupt, nice isn't it?

Let's just call it what it actually is rather than this lip-service bullshit to a reason that is clearly not being honoured. I'm extremely in favour of free trade deals, but you can ruin anything with corruption and that's what is happening here.

Take down your tariffs and subsidies and your country gets richer regardless of treaty. No really. Do a whole corrupt thing like this and everyone gets poorer. Except perhaps the mega-wealthy trying to avoid competition for their businesses and those in their lobby. The thing is the mega-wealthy don't want to be richer, they have far more than they or 4 generations of their family can possibly spend. They want power, they don't want upstart entrepreneurs getting rich. They want their relative wealth to the average to be as high as possible. It's sick, sad and twisted. Fortunately we have the Republicans to stand up for what's right with respect to classical liberalism.
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Now, this is just my impression... I have no statistics to back this up. But I've been working in IT for 20 years, and eh, it is changing. The sort of person who gets hired is changing.

My impression is that the industry is changing... not really in the tools we use (UNIX is older than I am; we keep re-hashing some combination of C and lisp, it seems that virtualization tech is on a one decade cycle. It's the same shit, new packaging) - no, the industry is changing because more "normal people" are entering it. Standards are going up in terms of expectations of things like social skills, being tall, good looking, etc, etc, all the things you'd expect to need to succeed in sales or management or other things that a normal person might do. My observation of my unemployed friends; the sort of people who were seriously into computers in the early to mid '90s, is that they are generally rejected on "cultural fit" grounds. "You aren't cool enough to work here"

I mean, it's still way easier in tech than in sales, for a person with poor social skills or poor confidence, a man who is short, or someone who is plain ugly, but every year, the vast difference between sales and engineering seems to be shrinking. It's pretty dramatic, really, because when I started in the '90s, it seemed like this was the haven for people who were not welcome anywhere else. Being smart enough to do the job excused a lot of negative attributes that would not have been excusable in other fields.
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I don't think recruiters are terrible as a class of people (though I do love making fun of them), but I do want 99% of them out of the equation. It's insane that we're letting 15-25% of first year salary slip through our fingers and go to middlemen who don't give a shit about us or the state of our craft. We're the technologists and we should be controlling AND capturing the value. Which is what I'm working on now..
"Severed hands in an occult context occur as early as Herodotus's 'Tale of Rhampsinitus'"[1].

In the "The Invisibles" as well [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_Glory#In_literature

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisibles
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Great advice which I think applies to everyone who has been around for long enough to see new standards come into their domain. I am only 33 and am now on my 3rd platform, but I love it, and the skills I used on my previous platforms are more than relevant here and now.

It can always be daunting when new tech comes out and hard to be a newcomer in an area you have so much experience in, better to embrace and learn or consider another line, as apposed to be a grumpy ol' stubborn git ;`P
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On that note; friends don't let friends buy cheap thumb drives. We got a batch of them in high school and they gave us all one. Free stuff! They fried the USB controller of every single PC that they were plugged into. The replacement motherboards were not free.
Windows 93 is fun, but the visual inaccuracy always bothered me. It resembles the Win9x/Classic look but only just.
Note: the same error is thrown on Safari in private browsing mode.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14555347/html5-localstora...
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There was a window manager for RedHat that copied the look of 95:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95
"At Aeroman’s El Salvador facility, only one mechanic out of eight is F.A.A.-certified. At a major overhaul base used by United Airlines in China, the ratio is one F.A.A.-certified mechanic for every 31 non-certified mechanics. In contrast, back when U.S. airlines performed heavy maintenance at their own, domestic facilities, F.A.A.-certified mechanics far outnumbered everyone else. At American Airlines’ mammoth heavy-maintenance facility in Tulsa, certified mechanics outnumber the uncertified four to one"

They also explain that to be FAA certified, you must be able to read and comprehend English. This is because the maintenance books are all in English. Also of note, Southwest is one of the airlines that do this, and they are purely a domestic service.

This is less about xenophobia than FAA oversight. This is a real problem.
From the title I expected an article on pre-Copernican planetary models and its connection to approximation by Fourier series. Strangely enough that connection is not as popular as one would think in retrospect. It took me by surprise when I finally made the connection, "why the hell didn't I realize that before."
The core concept, maybe.

Then again, a top tier BMW doesn't sound so different than an Edsel either. They both have internal combustion engines, 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and they take you from place A to place B in similar speeds (in orders of magnitude).

That's because you're focusing on the similarities which don't say anything -- what's important in all cases are the differences.

Which in this case are mostly about the implementation.
- the UI wouldn't be a part of a page, it would be THE page.
- it shouldn't be an over-engineered mess of a GUI toolkit like Swing.
- it should offer modern and capable widgets, instead of the bizarro, limited and uncanny value one's that Swing offers (if you don't get into intricate customization of your own).
- it should be faster than the web app it replaces -- applets were often slow to load AND slow to run.
- it shouldn't be controller by a single company.
- it shouldn't be proprietary.
- it should, if possible, cater to many programming languages.
- it should play natively with the HTTP model, AJAX etc.
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