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Every Wolframy thread turns into the same discussion about Wolfram himself. Let's not let that happen here.

Idiosyncrancies aside, he obviously has the background to understand this material. The main obstacle is putting in the time to understand it, which he did.

The article is replete with historical information, he explains why he concludes what he does, and the result is an order of magnitude more substantive (and technical) than any other Lovelace/Babbage article I recall seeing on HN. I think it can stand on its own. The content is fascinating and is what deserves discussion.
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Can I ask, why would an ISP upload 300TB data/day? Are you wiretapping all users' packets?
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I think that the best way to go about this would be to home in on the "random" natural variation and really analyze the noise. Random noise should have very different spectral characteristics than real temperature data, which may have ~decadal periodicity (from the Pacific Decadal Oscillation) or similar non homogeneous frequency content. But with highly down sampled data like this a lot could be lost.

That being said this is basically a Turing test with snippets of conversation selected by an antagonistic mediator. As Gelman has shown, the expected ROI is very low and any climate scientist worth her salt is better off using that effort in the grant proposal contest instead; more money and better odds.
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The latest is actually they did it, then pulled it, but presumably they'll try again. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/window...
My coworker Andy is a former Bell Labs unix guy, and incredibly resistant to change; when I introduced him to z after a few days he described it as "the first new unix command I've introduced to my regular workflow in 20 years".

(Disclaimer: z's author is a close friend.)
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Yes, I'm suggesting that languages designed by women -- and a software world where most languages, platforms, and tools -- would likely have different characteristics. Your assumption that it wouldn't seems to need just just as much evidence as the assumption that it would.
This is awesome. Wouldn't it be cool is this were wired up to an orchestration tool like Terraform to visualize TF states?

Another level would be container infrastructure. Our new project is Docker/Kubernetes so the AWS infrastructure mostly just vanilla resources. It would be fantastic to have a similar tool for the internals of our micro SOA.

Great job!
Very obvious.
Imagine that you are a little behind in soccer ability. You never played soccer in high school or college, you are not the most athletic person. Now in your 20s you want to sign up for a soccer league. The local league has multiple divisions for different ability levels. What do you do? Do you sign up for the highest, so that you can be exposed to great play? Or do you sign up for the division that matches your own ability? The answer for most people is obvious. You sign up for the division that matches your own ability. If you sign up for a top-level league, no one will pass the ball, and when you get the ball, you'll have it taken away so fast you won't have a chance to get better.

The idea that the best way to help someone who is behind, is to put them with those farthest ahead, is completely insane. Yet that has been the policy behind affirmative action, behind integration-via-fiat, and behind eliminating tracking in grade school. It is not helpful to be in classes with people who are far ahead of you, as you won't get the practice on the basic, foundational topics that you need. You will be lost, and then fall even further behind. On the other hand, if you are grouped with people of your own ability, you have the opportunity to work hard, be among the best in the class, and feel much greater personal satisfaction. (See again how many nerds who despised gym class end up later liking casual ultimate frisbee games -- such games among people of similar ability level ends up being a lot more fun).
Actually was does a disservice to everyone is the idea that you need to "care" for job, or that a business is a "family"

A person is paid to do work, if they make a life choice that means they no longer desire to do that work and instead wants to devote their time to other pursuits (like raising children) more power to them. Expecting their co-workers to pick up their slack, expecting their employer to pay for it, and unfairly holding open a job than an unemployed person could fill is simply selfish.
Of you are fine tuning the reporting chain, your org is already hopelessly broken. That is the central planning Communist model.
I previously read another very good piece on "The Knowledge", which has some interesting perspective from an applicant and student.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-tes...

There's something to be said both about "doing things right" having a certain beauty over "doing the right things", and "doing the right things" being vastly more important than "doing things just right".

There are parallels to anything from higher education, to computing, to productivity, to art, to academia...
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Outstanding characters? They all owned slaves and women could not vote. Check your privilege.
It will depend very much on the types of location information passengers give, and routing flexibility they want.

To give examples based on http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-tes... , consider "Take me to that gay bar near George Court", or how to bypass "construction that has sprung up on Regent Street." It also points out that currently "black cabs have triumphed in staged races against cars using GPS".

Over time I have no doubt that more of this information will be in routing systems, but that's difficult to acquire, and crowd-sourcing attempts are subject to spamming.
He also moved his site over to a non-EOL Ubuntu 14.04 instance, which is probably the more relavent aspect here.
There are many counter-examples. The important part isn’t that the answer is “no”, as the Law states, but that the story is tired enough to need a question in its headline in the first place. Andrew Marr’s explanation focusses especially on this aspect of the Law: “A headline with a question mark at the end means, in the vast majority of cases, that the story is tendentious or over-sold. It is often a scare story, or an attempt to elevate some run-of-the-mill piece of reporting into a national controversy and, preferably, a national panic. To a busy journalist hunting for real information a question mark means ‘don’t bother reading this bit’.” He makes a few assumptions, but I think the overall takeaway of “question mark equals clickbait” rings true.
Why the condescending tone?

I'm not particularly stupid (north of 130 last time I measured), I'm not in the pocket of big oil (works with solar power, the more solar, the more chance I get a fat bonus).

Some things just doesn't feel right about the AGW debate and I try to debate it and leave a few, friendly pointers here and at AT about the things that sticks out (private jets to climate conferences etc) but it feels quite a few people sits ready to rubber stamps anyone who isn't zealous enough about supporting every aspect of every part and every proponent of the AGW.
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The way forward is not techno-communism. The problem is not over-competition or over-coorperation but over-centralization.

We can get the imagined benefits of techno-communism by getting better at systems integration through wider adoption of improved common technology platforms. For example, what if web assembly had a registry and semantic versioning like Node.js, and that became the standard for integrating B2B, government, and IoT? This would be a programming-language agnostic system. Systems for things like digital democracy, smart contracts, etc. could be easily deployed, integrated, and evolved.

See http://www.reddit.com/r/rad_decentralization and http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage
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Rogaway wrote an companion essay for his invited talk that is rather accessible: http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
Dont know the situation now, but this was posted some time back :

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
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They were absolutely outstanding men relative to their peers. Check your PC bullshit.
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Street view itself is out of date (Charing Cross footage was taken around August 2014). It won't be able to show you non-static nuances, or road conditions. For example, some sets of lights may be more notoriously slow than others to change. Street view won't show you which roundabouts has the bigger problems with congestion, etc.

You're right that The Knowledge itself is not "live" however for those who pass the test and do become cab drivers, they will inevitably get near-live data as they drive around doing their job, and conversing with other drivers, police, council workers over the course of time and learn about changing to traffic conditions.
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I personally use tor in my professional job as a sysadmin to get a "outside" look on a service. It provide a extra path which evades caches and similar issues.
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This game would be a good candidate for an in-browser or touch-screen clone. With the right design, I think a clone of this could be a great game for folks of all ages.
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The trade off to having stable, secure packages has always been not getting new features.

For example, in LTS releases, major versions are frozen but perpetually updated and patched for the lifetime of the distro. In more bleeding edge rolling release distros, you receive (or compile) sometimes major version updates of software within a short time after their public release. In those distros you can still freeze your packages at certain versions, but it's not quite the same as making sure every library and component in the system is getting the same treatment.

Try manjaro (https://manjaro.github.io/). It uses pacman (like Arch) and yaourt (for AUR, building from source). Their driver and kernel management makes switching between free/non-free drivers or different kernels easy. And they're pretty close to bleeding edge; I've been running kernel 4.2 with Xorg 1.17 (released 2015/02) for months, and up to kernel 4.4rc4 and Xorg 1.18 are available in the repos.
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> Are you claiming that if my hit counter were written by a female, in a non-javascript language, then it would yield a different count?

I'm claiming that if the experiment that involved a hit counter was designed and implemented by women, in a language designed and implemented by women, running on a platform designed and implemented by women, and the results were interpreted by a woman, it might well lead to a different conclusion about "objective reality".

And I'm suggesting that your unwillingness to acknowledge that possibilty is an indication that you're not doing feminist philosophy.
Different times. You cannot hold past people to whatever the rights du jour are now. Slavery was legal then, right or wrong.

I'm sure in 100+ years, people will look back on us and laugh at how "unenlightened" we are.
Here is a quote from George Washington sent to a Jewish congregation in Newport, RI while he and Thomas Jefferson were promoting what is now the 1st amendment. Although Rhode Island had ratified that amendment, "Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Georgia were still debating the amendments in August of 1790 when the President visited Newport."

"For happily the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support." [1]

[1] http://www.tourosynagogue.org/history-learning/gw-letter
Things are never perfect. The best we can hope for is that people work hard and are good to each other. The founding fathers had their fair share of flaws just like any leader today, and yet they managed to turn a rebellion into something great.

The real tragedy today is that there are many Americans who want a monopoly on American identity, instead of embracing the source of America's strength: our ability to assimilate people and ideas into something greater than the sum of its parts (and genocical imperialism and slave labor helped too)
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This article was obviously required reading in our long form journalism course in college. It's devastating that this is the kind of work that people deride now for its length and verbose cadence.

A piece like this is incredibly difficult to write. It doesn't just require embedding yourself in the life of a typically-unwilling subject but also to take what seems to be a random set of small anecdotes and finding the larger theme they speak to.
> It would require liblzma

Yep, in the same way it requires libz and libbz2.
Send paperwork to be signed to "help with sorting out with clearing all the administrivia related to a recent death in the family", which is in fact legalese that says that you accept to give your part of the inheritance to them.

Challenge wills in court to get a bigger portion.

I exaggerated by saying "making a living" (not enough money around) but very annoying at a time you normally focus on grieving, and definitely something I don't want my spouse and kids to have to go through.
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how is this news?
Same for me. The overhead of managing several instances is largely compensated by the peace of mind (thanks Ansible!).
Paris climate deal: nearly 200 nations sign in end of fossil fuel era
The real tragedy today is that there are many Americans who want a monopoly on American identity

American identity is much more heterogeneous today than ever before, in no small part thanks to ecumenism.
The FSF has no problem with non-free binary blobs on hardware, as long as they're burned into ROM[0]. The idea is that the firmware burned into ROM is not user serviceable - that it's never intended to be replaced and is intrinsically a part of the hardware. To have a completely different view when it comes to firmware that is loaded at initialization time seems a bit silly to me. This code is just as intrinsically a part of the function of the device, but instead of having to swap a board back to get a firmware update the firmware can be updated in the field.

[0] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html, specifically: 'The ethical issues of free software arise because users obtain programs and install them in computers; they don't really apply to hidden embedded computers, or the BIOS burned in a ROM, or the microcode inside a processor chip, or the firmware that is wired into a processor in an I/O device. In aspects that relate to their design, those things are software; but as regards copying and modification, they may as well be hardware. The BIOS in ROM was, indeed, not a problem.'
One of the hardest aspects of automation is reproducing the quality of human labor. The first generations of automation are rarely as high-quality as handmade things but automation is still pursued because it can be less expensive.
Well, someone has to store and transmit the actual content at some point, and for real twitter there's a total volume of 400 million tweets a day...
I built wsup [1] so that I could keep my dotfiles in multiple independent git repos -- some public on github for sharing (e.g. my emacs config [2]), and some private. It works similarly to stow, but is written in bash.

[1] https://github.com/dcreemer/wsup

[2] https://github.com/dcreemer/dotemacs
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You're really gonna hate this page then: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
That article and another have had threads on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=knowledge%20london%20points%3E....
Having lived a number of years in London, both before and after Uber made an appearance, my experience is that black cab drivers generally have a better idea of where things are and how to get there – without the need of GPS – however that's not to say they provide better service.

More than once have I had to tell my black cab driver that he's going down an inefficient route, and it's obvious (albeit difficult to prove) that this was on purpose to jack up the price for the ride. Worse: there's no one I can call for a refund. In contrast, I've contacted Uber when this has happened with their drivers and always been given credits to make up the difference. Credits are no refund, for sure, but on the other hand I've kept using the service so I suppose it works out much the same.

On the other hand, more than once have I had to actually give my Uber driver turn-by-turn directions because the Uber app is terrible with routing, the driver ignores it, or both.

My best experience in London has been with Uber exec. The cars are nicer, the drivers are generally more knowledgeable and professional, and most importantly they've learned to not rely on Uber's crappy mapping but rather use some other device to figure out the best route. More often than not, this means Google Maps (which, I think, Uber uses as well yet still manages to be useless) and some creative use of intermediate turns to avoid traffic – knowledge that likely comes from experience driving down London's streets as opposed to studying maps in a class room.

There was a brief moment, before Uber had any significant presence in London, that an app called Hailo provided an Uber like experience but only contracted black cabs. This worked quite well, since they solved the two worst problems with black cabs, in my opinion:

1. Finding one
2. Paying for it (most only deal in cash)

Uber obviously fixed both of these, but also provides more comfortable cars (at least on the exec level) and more often than not more professional drivers (hit and miss, the UberX level is a lottery.)

My typical experience with black cab drivers is that they are middle aged white males with a very conservative and xenophobic world view, lack of respect for women, and not afraid to share it. I'm white, and male, but still find this very uncomfortable and not something I like to support financially. Only once have I encountered a female black cab driver, and we even discussed that fact. She told me that she estimated the number of female drivers to be around 10% of the driver workforce, but I've seen numbers[1] to suggest it's much lower than that.

In any event, these days if I have to travel to London, I exclusively use Uber Exec, simply because I find that service seems to hit the sweet spot of professionalism, service, and comfort, at a price that's still cheaper than a black cab – and I don't have to carry cash. That said, I feel no loyalty to Uber and if there was a competitor that could provide an experience with a more consistent track record (as mentioned UberX is hit-and-miss) I probably wouldn't hesitate to try them out.

[1]: https://www.cglloyds.co.uk/news/2015/02/12/interview-with-Lo...
Agreed. At least if things break noisily then the user will have an idea that things are now different. If you silently fall back with no feedback to the user then they may never know that they should have lessened security expectations.
constant demand for mobility in the modern work place

Under capitalism, fertility is a cost to both the worker and the workplace. If 'society' wants fertility, someone has to pay for it somehow.
More like disagrees with this interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
>Short range slingshot mechanisms

you got me thinking, googling, then frowning. imagine this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crzXD6NjBAE milspecced.
>I don't see how this protect from being hacked ?

It's easy. If you can easily restore from a backup, then you can easily not care at all as to whether you can get hacked or not -- especially if what you run is just a blog.
I believe the contrary. I work in higher education, where people are valued as investments. I have been instructed extensively in security, allowing me to create more secure applications for college/devops purposes. If I lacked the knowledge and they had simply brought on a security-focused developer, it would have cost more and could have resulted in a poorer suite of apps and standards, as I could overlook security flaws even a novice would spot.
How would you say your service compares to Auth0[1]?

[1]: https://auth0.com
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Birth control is the mechanism that provides the choice. The rationale has to come from somewhere else.
I disagree strongly with this. Wolfram himself litters the entire essay with asides in which he compares and contrasts his own place within science history with both Babbage and Lovelace. If Wolfram wanted to write a neutral historical account, he could have, but instead he opened the door for the continued derision of NKS-style pomposity by specifically tailoring this historical account as if it too must serve to underscore his own career efforts, which he chooses to frame as longsuffering attempts to have his work be granted the correct degree of awe.

Until he begins writing things in which he doesn't infuse that sort of ploy to underscore so-called credit he perceives he should be given, I think it's not only fair but highly useful to the community at large for criticisms of any work he produces to center on these aspects.

The only counter-argument I could see would be if the historical content of the article were so story-breaking and important that we should all put up with the pomposity in order to consume the never-before-explained-as-well historical side, but w.r.t. the history of Ada Lovelace and Babbage, that's just not true, and there are many other historical accounts that don't try to coyly shoehorn in comparisons to Wolfram products, Wolfram computational achievements, or credit/recognition that Wolfram believes he deserves.
> Point being, markets are inherently capitalistic. Would you disagree with that?

Yes, absolutely. For a system to be capitalistic, you also have to have at least capital intensive means of production (hence the name), a real labor market and more or less free access to the market both as a consumer and a producer. Capitalism only started existing with the onset of the industrial revolution.

Reductio at absurdum: A Greek citizen in 200 BC is buying fish from a fisherman, with coins, at freely decided prices. Thats the market at work, but no capitalism at all.
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Broadly, yes. But let's not mince words: the white and largely male-dominated subset of Americans see themselves as the vanguards of the true - and dying - standard of what it means to be American. Therefore, they would rather fight scorched-earth against alternative lifestyles and skin colors over the meaning of what makes up an American rather than work together to ensure national prosperity in a turbulent world order.
I probably need not explain that this is simply tautological.
In this particular case, Facebook is advocating for using a SHA-1 certificate only if they know that the client doesn't support SHA-256, and if that knowledge is cryptographically protected. Since TLS supports a way of securely detecting MITMs in the handshake, you can in fact get the client TLS version in a trustworthy manner. This prevents SHA-1 attacks on clients that support SHA-256 (which was the goal all along), while continuing to provide non-plaintext service to clients that don't.

It's not at all clear to me that this prevents the internet from getting more secure.
Is it worth learning algorithms?