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The edge of human understanding of the universe is a vague and scary place. When we dug deep below the atom level everything we took for granted fell apart. We had to invent an entirely new model of physics to make sense of our observations, which is complex and counter-intuitive (quantum mechanics)

Would it be reasonable to assume that the same applies at the opposite end of the spectrum: from the sub-atomic to the super-galactical? Could the rules at such scales necessitate a new form of physics that we have yet to derive because of the difficulty of observation?

I ask this because "dark matter" and "dark energy" always make me think of past primitive attempts to align unexpected data to existing models of understanding. Is it possible that they are just "echoes" or "shadows" of concepts that exceed the very nature of "matter" and "energy"?
Linux can be so amazing when configured especially for some tasks. For example, Jack on linux can deliver audio latencies under 2ms! The problem is that configuring Linux like this almost requires a CS degree.
Here's another example of the same sort of idea:

http://elinux.org/images/f/f7/RightApproachMinimalBootTimes....

Also under 1 second, and the approaches this guy took are seriously impressive. Lots of educational tidbits and "good-to-know"s in here even for non-embedded types. Reads very quickly too.
(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.)

I'm only going to respond to a couple of parts of this. I more or less disagree with everything you said and even some of the whitespace, but there are only some parts that I can discuss publicly so I'll limit myself to those.

> to figure out what any competent human being would think of as blindingly obvious.

No: to take the things which you thought were obvious, and collect data proving which ones were true and which ones were false. This is no longer "obvious", it is now a proven fact.

Yes, science is a lot more expensive than guessing.

> HR people can and do make those kinds of assumptions all the time. They do it when they are looking at resumes; they do it when they are setting up phone screens

> There's a deeply seated problem happening when you allow people with no subject matter experience be the gatekeepers of who does and doesn't get into a company.

I can state unequivocally that peopleops at Google is not involved in these functions, except to monitor their performance.

> Perhaps every pod at Google doesn't need its own HR rep, but there is a level of management that would make sense to have one HR person to handle hiring/recruiting/necessary paperwork.

We do assign people in something roughly like this fashion, although they aren't really involved in hiring, recruiting, or paperwork.
"Another is to “use SQL libraries that take care of input sanitization for them,” Al-Bassam suggested. This, in short, scrubs any data entered by the user to remove any potential malicious parts of it."

This is bad advice. Some people have apostrophes in their name. Deal with it.

Shameless plug: http://blog.hackensplat.com/2013/09/never-sanitize-your-inpu...
> Would it be reasonable to assume that the same applies at the opposite end of the spectrum: from the sub-atomic to the super-galactical?

Isn't special relativity complex and counter-intuitive enough?
In my experience apng is usually only neclectible smaller than gif a and a way bigger if not in the indexed colours mode.
I once had a brief conversation (via Reddit) with a guy using JACK for a commercial (embedded Linux) networked audio system. I wasn't aware of the exact specifics but I understand it was Sonos-style, embedded boards inside speakers. He wasn't particularly interested in talking about the work his team had done :P

I think that proves your point.
Concealing who you actually are can be legal rape. There was a case (in NZ, I think) where one brother of a pair of identical twins had sex with the other brother's girlfriend. She had consented to the sex itself, but had thought it was her boyfriend, and the man had wilfully misrepresented himself as his brother.

It's pointless to hang on technicalities though - regardless of whether this is legally 'rape', it is undoubtedly severe emotional trauma.
This seems like something straight out of SciFi. Dark matter actually forming invisible rods that go through the Earth? Can we interact with these "hairs" if they are all around us? Can we at least detect it?

It seems that all question I and any non-specialist can ask are stupid and irrelevant, but it's still so exciting to think of all the possibilities.
Woman pretending to be a man in a 2 year relationship gets 8 years in jail. Wonder if the cop will get 24 years in jail?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/12/gayle-newland...
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I've responded to the same question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623845
> He wasn't particularly interested in talking about the work his team had done :P

As in, he tried to keep the secrets secret, or it seemed to be trivial and uninteresting to him?
Maybe something has changed since last boot.

In the embedded hardware environment if something has changed and if this change is out of specs, then what you say can be adopted.
I havn't seen any of this behavior. I manage many customers with self-hosting (not ISP) mail servers and have only seen problems, when there was indeed a spam sending virus (or at least they should send spam) in the net.
I'd some problems with oversceptical i-dont-care-what-the-rfc-says mail provider like web.de and co here in germany. Which think a MX record has to point to an A record and CNAMEs are spam. Well, germany... I guess

The problem with Google and many other mail software(!) is, that they don't /really/ care about DKIM (and other new shiny stuff nobody gives a f* about) and have spam filters they trust 100%: like subnet rating - that should be changed indeed!
I think certain developers can skip the review process.
In a way relativity theory was such a new model, classical theory (Newton) worked well at all Earth scale observations of the time, it took quite few years after the theory was formulated before the first experimental evidence came in and relativistic effects are far more visible to us on a larger scale (but they're there on a smaller scale too, just harder to quantify).

Who knows, there may be yet another theory that explains things on a larger scale even better than our current understanding. This may also increase or change our understanding of what happens at the smallest scales. Laws of physics trend towards unification, a single model to explain all scales at once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

(page 7) http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/fx32.pdf

note that it was 500 MHz DEC Alpha vs 200 Mhz Pentium
There is no standard rate, the pay scale is extremely wide. You can easily find people who'll churn out shitty PHP for 700 EUR/mo. It's not much harder to find someone who has considerably more skill and experience, and will require at least twice that. Highly skilled people who know their worth won't work for less than 2500 EUR/mo, and have no trouble finding employers who'll pay them that much, or more. Google pays around 3500 EUR/mo for new grads. All of these are gross numbers, and refer to Warsaw market. For other cities, there are fewer candidates, and salaries are 20-30% lower.

Overall though I'd say that developers here don't know how much they're worth, and sadly most employers get away with paying them less than they should. The reason it happens is that everyone else in other occupations are paid even less, so developers feel like they have it good, even though they can easily have it better.

As for the regulatory/legal system, there are some issues, but I don't think it's any better or worse than anywhere else. There are some incubators here, Google has opened Campus[1] just last week, but I think the biggest issue for wannabe-unicorns here is lack of the access to capital. Some of my friends bootstrapped their companies though, and it worked out quite well for them.

[1] - https://www.campus.co/warsaw/en
I wrote a little tool that decodes the data optically from a credit card, using a photo of the credit card and an iron solution.

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/optical-magnetic-stri...

I'm planning on seeing if I can decode data from higher density mediums with the same approach, when I can get my
hands on some iron nanoparticles.
If you are lucky to work on a shop that values CI, yeah.

But those are usually the same ones that take the effort to run the tools anyway.
Does the xen hypervisor offer same-page merging?
I believe kvm as well as lxc/cgroups do, at least to some extent and in their own idiosyncratic ways.

From the point of view of a former sysadmin and current "private cloud" enthusiast that's a crucial question that likely leads to intricate discussions on security as well.
That sounds more like a C++ than Python design sensibility.
IIRC, US uses chip and signature 99% of the time, not chip and pin.

I don't think I have a single card that supports pin.
How much do you cache? Hardware is difficult because you could add/remove/swap it at any time, and software information is already partly cached depending on your OS.

IIRC, Windows a) builds a list of files to pre-load from disk based on your usage, and b) doesn't actually fully shut down by default (it goes to hibernate mode: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/olivnie/archive/2012/12/14/windows-8...). I don't know if any Linux distros do either of those by default, but it is certainly possible.

Also, some BIOSes already have a "quick boot" setting which caches some hardware information, particularly about memory. It usually comes with a warning that you need to disable the setting for at least one boot when installing RAM.
Hardware requires specific handshaking to get it to initialize, the kernel cannot assume that the hardware that was present last time is available this time, and orchestrating everything is not an easy process.

The holy grail would be a kernel organized and designed to cache everything to disk related to its own configuration, and only re-execute/rerun the hardware reinitialization code.

Admittedly, Windows' current approach to bootup is very close: it closes all applications then pseudo-hibernates the kernel. Bootup simply reads the hibernated kernel state from disk and reloads userspace.

This is of course besides traditional full ACPI hibernation, which is pretty cool but isn't a perfect art. (I'm typing this on a ThinkPad T23, a fairly old (and thus well-tested) hardware configuration; its hibernation/resume is usually rock-solid, but this morning my WLAN decided to get all stupid with dhcpcd, and USB decided that while it could see my external HDD, there wasn't a disk inside it. From-scratch boot is still the only way to get a reasonably predictable system state.)
Severalnines aims for the stars with EGO boost
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So what is your underlying moral principle? That the state cannot take actions perfectly legal for citizens to engage in to prevent crime?

Would it also be wrong for the state to send a sexy lady cop to seduce a gay basher/abortion doctor killer/female genital mutilator/other unpopular terrorist group?

Or is there no principle, but this just seems unpleasant and the lady seems like a sympathetic person with a good cause? (I too don't think it was an effective use of police resources.)
I've had a bit of a journey in my professional career when it comes to writing apps. I started in heavy OO-mode, much as you describe, but I'm a long ways from there right now.

We're pretty far down an HN thread, but if you're interested in pursuing this further, I shot about an hour of video to show how I would code a small app. You'll find the three parts here:http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/technical-story-slicing-1-o...

I'd enjoy continuing the conversation via email if you'd like. Let me know!
I found this while I was looking for info on Evernote just now; they were Inc magazine's company of the year in 2011.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201112/evernote-2011-company-of-...
Gmail has it's problems (it is unusable on Chrome for me at the moment, I need to use Edge), but probably only 1% of spam emails are false positives.

I am no email server expert but it sounds like he needs to Google SPF, Reverse DNS and Domain Keys.
> Facebook

This sounds like yet another case of someone confusing Facebook (plus a few related businesses) with the internet. Regulate the endpoints, if you must, instead of blaming the internet for letting you talk to that endpoint.
And more so, what is gained by having a relationship with Lisa versus merely infiltrating the group of friends on a long-term basis?
Case study: Severalnines aims for the stars with EGO boost
A "case by case basis" is just a code word for "let's protect people we identify or sympathize with". The attractive white lady, sure - the fat black asshole, not so much.
> A simple yes or no will do.

Haven't they done better than that? Except they've dealt with the possible issue that the reader has an incorrect understanding of the support lifecycle policy for Internet Explorer.
No. Next question please.

Seriously if anyone is treating humans like pigeons here it's the author by posing this question.
It's super creepy.
It's pretty stupid what they try to do to get even more money

They somehow managed to get a law in place which prohibits quoting of even small passages online (i.e. Google News) without paying for it.
What did Google do? Simply removed them from the results, they tried to sue and lost. Now they gave Google permission to include them for free.
What about the smaller services? Who cares about those - loads of news aggregators shut down in response.

Now that (some) adblockers have been ruled legal they sued a bunch of people (youtuber, the adblock forum) for providing instruction on how to get around the anti-adblocker wall they put in
Fun times
I am sure there is a lot of code out their vulnerable to SQL Injection, namely ASP code. But I have never seen anyone write new code that way for years. I think it is written about so much mainly because it is easy to explain to non-techies.
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Because they're not sophisticated and are in the game solely to promote their own accelerator rubbish.
To give context, in Poland there is strong copyright movement focused on modernizing copyright law:
https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl/

It successfully lobbies common sense changes.
In the case of Twitter they probably don't know how often you're checking it. It's a stream that's constantly pushing updates to your computer whenever you have a client open. If you open it and put it the background and only check it a few times a day that looks the same as if you open it and keep it in the foreground checking every tweet.
Interesting, I was looking into doing something similar when I wrote jquery-csv.

Have you considered including the YAML metadata directly in the CSV file using front-matter? That would make the data + schema more portable/reusable.

Also, keep an eye on the WHATWG. They recently formed a working group specifically focused on CSV. Looks like they're working to add CSV support as a web standard including inline validation.
http://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page
Very resouce hungry though which translates to poor battery life. One such image on every web page and you would only be able to browse the web for an hour a day.
Yes, he was doing it as part of his job as a police officer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kennedy_%28police_officer...
That's very impressive. Great for embedded devices, where the hardware profile doesn't change from boot to boot.
I was a member a spent some time talking with one of the ladies running the credit union -- they set up shop in an area where there were socio-economically depressed communities, and were soliciting members from those underserved communities (if i remember correctly)

EDIT: Nothing necessarily to do with archive.org, except that Brewster is a great guy and he happens to really dislike banks, so he looped in a friend involve in the banking sector
So doing it on your own rather than under orders is fine? If mark stone just wanted a shag and kept things from his superiors then this would be OK?
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What about beans?
It's kind of ironic that the SVG animations stutter a way more than the gifs on my i5 while the text advertises svg as smoother.

Reminds me of a text about typesetting. The author was surprised that newepaper publishers switched from PostScript to Bitmaps (so from Vector to pixel graphics). But Bitmaps are just a way simpler to handle and with bitmaps the worstcase is the average case.
Liquidation preferences are wiped out in an IPO. What's more relevant are "ratchets" which were mentioned in the article.
Wow, how many things can you get wrong in one sentence.

No, on a case-by-case basis does not mean 'let's protect people we identify or sympathize with' that's your words, not mine. It means: when looking at these cases we look at each of them individually and try to decide whether or not the good outweighed the bad, it does not say anything about the gender, the attractiveness, the skin color, the weight or the general disposition of the person involved.

You added those things, for no apparent reason.
infiltrating environmental protesters, wow, what a way to put your live on a line everyday... Always a lot of money, chicks digging you - that is one dangerous life and attending Glastonbury festival - man, that was close! Leave some schmucks do the ISIS ...

>According to The Guardian,[10] Kennedy sued the police for ruining his life and failing to "protect" him from falling in love with one of the environmental activists whose movement he infiltrated (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kennedy_%28police_officer...)

no kidding. Now taxpayers are to pay him for all the pleasure he tortured himself with. "The things i'm gonna do for my Country" (NSFW - detailed picture of the dangers of an undercover agent's job. Very different from our office jobs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Rq... )
It still seems pretty inefficient. With 4KB of RAM I'd just store my data in an array of structs and send it in raw binary to the central server. The SQL also leaves potential for running unwanted SQL.

I'm reminded of a commercial home automation platform that had agonizingly slow response times because the LCD controllers were sending raw, unauthenticated Python code to the 70MHz central controller.
Betteridge's law of headlines clearly applies in this case.

"No".

Next question?
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All this "dark matter might be here and there" articles makes me feel they are missing the point.

The article even fails to mention electromagnetism, which together with gravity causes matter to collapse on itself, causing black holes, which is the gravitational core of every galaxy.

Electromaginetic fields has also been dictating the galaxy cluster structures (aka "mega structures" that has emerged since the hypothesed event we commonly refer to as the big bang).

http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-work...

http://www.setterfield.org/Astronomy/Galaxy_Cores.html#elect...
1 seconds seems a rather arbitrary measure. In HCI 100ms seems to be the value that's generally taken under which an action seems to be happening instantaneously [1]

It's quite sad to see how we hardly use the computing power offered by our modern computers to actually speed up common tasks, but instead bloat it up with all kinds of stuff.

[1] http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/1664/what-is-the-t...
Remember when Monsanto sued a small dairy in Maine, because they wanted to label their milk as hormone free?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/business/monsanto-sues-dai...

Hormones, btw, which are illegal in the EU.
Einstein was no lone genius
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In places I've lived recently, canned tuna isn't the cheapest source, though it's cheap-ish. Canned chicken is cheaper in most of the USA. Even fresh or frozen meats can be cheaper, e.g. chicken in the USA, or pork in Denmark. As well as lower-end sausages and other processed meats. Plus, nearly all vegetable sources of protein, like beans or lentils, are cheaper than those.

I would also not suggest canned tuna as a staple protein, because of its high mercury levels. It's okay to eat occasionally, but eating ~10 cans/week as your main source of protein isn't a good idea. The safe consumption quantity for a typical adult is in the range of 2-3 cans per week of chunk-light, or 1 can/week of albacore.
I guess it depends on what you find more familiar. But at this device scale, one should really be comfortable with C data structures.
To me it sounds like addressing a pain point for larger projects, moving the language forward, and adding something many in the community has long wanted (as evident by blog posts and articles, earlier type checking tool attempts, the acceptance of the relevant PEP, etc).
The important section is "without the consent". If the victim consents to sex with someone who is X, Y or Z, and you tell them you are that and you're not, then that can count as rape.
I can see how being someone's boyfriend automatically comes with a higher trust level. But at the same time there really should be restrictions on the kind and severity of the invasiveness of undercover operations. You'd hope for some proportionality to the risks involved and this lady does not strike me as particularly risk-full with the data available, especially not if after 6 years of involvement they never found anything whatsoever to charge her with.
These types of questions seem to come up a lot, and while I'm not an expert, here are some typical responses, from one of the last dark matter threads (in particular, the two top replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10550732

I assume the tendency for the general public to give higher consideration to "other explanations," relative to professional physicists who seem to lean heavily towards the "matter" hypothesis, is lack of expertise in the current state of research. If you don't have a lot of good evidence one way or the other, all options seem about equally likely, so why take WIMPs more seriously than MOND or other hypotheses? Not that considering those alternatives is silly, but I think this might explain why this question keeps coming up even though the physics community seems pretty focused on the dark-matter-as-matter hypothesis.

Though whatever the answer should turn out to be, it will certainly be an interesting development.
This is probably the case
Shit happens. Move on.
This looks like a good basic configuration.

You should add a note that this is for a read-heavy ES cluster.

If you have a write-heavy cluster (thinking ELK), you'll want a different config with more focus on bulk and index.
Tons of extra needless parenthesis for what exactly? To look more like C? It's not like (foo:x) is not also a common type of type annotation. Besides they look more like casts than type declarations to a C programmer.
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You're right. I guess there are polymaths at this age and time, we just don't know about them. Maybe as you imply, it's impossible nowadays to stand out of the crowd the way Newton, Archimedes, Gauss, Tesla (as another commentator pointed out) did in the past.
So do regular computers.
University CS dept people in the 70s probably thought the same thing at the time, having witnessed IBM get into it in the late 60s.
Here's a video the same talk by the author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTRA1PRJWH8