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I was taught the importance of this in my first year of Physics undergrad. Fermi approximations (or order of magnitude estimation), from Fermi problems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem).

It is a highly valuable skill in STEM fields in my opinion. Sometimes knowing a rough number can tell you what to expect, and can immediately indicate whether something is wrong (or could go wrong).
I guess we are looking at a trade-off in every case. Is speed, waiting time, or moves(energy saving) your priority. When you order a set of six to eight elevators for a 70 story building you probably are allowed to set your preferences of how your elevators want to perform. This is why I could not get constant (100%) success rate with one universal algorithm. I always had to change something.
I know as certainly as I know anything that I'm conscious. You know the same fact with the same certainty about yourself. The problem of whether I can know that about you is a different problem altogether.

Edit: Or to put it another way which might be clearer: If it's possible for you to doubt whether you yourself are conscious then you define "consciousness" differently than I do, and so we are talking past each other.
- This mid-2013 Mac Pro wakes up every few hours at night, even though I have disabled every "wake from sleep" setting that exists in OS X

- My mid-2013 MBP has, several times this week, turned on while closed, and continued as if it was opened (playing YouTube videos or whatever else it be doing), only shutting back off after about 120 seconds or so

- Every time I turn this Mac Pro on, it doesn't recognize the wired Apple keyboard that's plugged into the Apple Cinema Display, and says it's looking for a bluetooth keyboard, until I unplug and replug the keyboard in at least 3 or 4 times

- My MBP once emitted a (very) loud buzzing sound from its speakers, for absolutely no reason, that lasted about 3 or 4 seconds, startling everyone nearby, when no sound-based programs were running

- My wife's Surface Pro 3 continually needs to be restarted because touch-screen controls simply stop being able to open programs on the home/grid page.

- If our family ASUS $800 computer is left on and falls asleep, it won't wake up, and will need to be manually shut down and restarted

These are just off the top of my head. Point is, Microsoft/Apple reliability is a complete myth. I'm tired of it and I'm tired of throwing extra money away for the sake of "higher reliability" and "fewer quirks".
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Why is the YC partner kept anonymous? Interesting editorial decision.
> But what are the odds of becoming a billionaire given that your annual income is below $10,000?

Much much worse when you're spending all your money on lotto tickets.

Its probably not a good idea to try to become a billionare. A millionare is within the realm of possibility, especially if you set your expectations to produce a millionare in your family over the next generation.
Not only do you have match n numbers, you must also not match n+1, n+2, etc., otherwise you win a different prize.
Probably the same hoodoo that's keeping Cheney alive.
Subreddit for statistical decision theory
Yeah telling us to blindly run a shell script is...a quirky design choice. At least it doesn't tell you to run it with sudo like I've seen some other ones do, and the shell script itself is sanely commented.
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I believe this is a reference to the Qt4 music video they released to explain the pronunciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbTEVbQLC8s
Perhaps the name of the company was not revealed because it was not a party to the case, as strange as it appears.
The lawsuit did not include the company, so it might not be in the public record (while the guy's name, being a party to the suit, is)
I think you mean "unibody": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_frame#Unibody Also, with the discontinuation of the Ford Panther platform (Crown Vic/Grand Marquis/Towncar) there are no longer any passenger cars manufactured using Body-on-frame, only SUVs and trucks.
Al Jezeera is an excellent news station. Much better than the others for being more fact oriented. Unfortunately its all about ratings today, facts be damned.

I think they give up too easily. I bet if they 1) changed the name to something "all American" and 2) made a reality show about what goes on behind the scenes, that might have been a big enough of a "killer app" to propel the network out of the shadows.

However I was disappointed that AJ got rid of the Young Turks.
That sucks, 10 times is far too long. If a doctor can't figure out what's up in that much time, then it's time to move on to another doctor. The hardest part is working up the energy to make a change.
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Does anyone else have this problem on a desktop machine? I'm using Firefox 43 on a MBP...Did the sign out button relocate elsewhere? Kind of a serious issue for me...
The stages do get progressively harder. Stage 2 is 1 in 10 and I think stage 7 is 1 in 36.
Please stop posting inflammatory rhetoric to Hacker News. It's an abuse of this site, which is supposed to be for thoughtful discussion only.
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The cable channel only decision was made in 2013. In 2016 they could just shut down Al Jazeera America, and stream the main channel. (It looks like that is what will happen.)

You do get data from internet tracking, but it is based around your activity and some correlation (eg geoip). Note that Al Jazeera would only get information about their own activity. There are various services that aggregate at a higher level, but they do cost money. I can't find any now, but there were a few companies that had a service you could ask about the current user and they would return likely demographic information.

That all matters if you are trying to sell the advertising yourself. If someone else higher in the user visibility chain sells the ads (eg google, facebook, yahoo) then they already have the comprehensive tracking and demographics. But advertising isn't that profitable and those guys will take a big chunk of the revenue, while you remain beholden to them.
This just sounds like a bad idea to me. Why would you publish all this very sensitive machine info to a third party to retrieve that list? This would be a goldmine if they got hacked.

Also, don't tell your users to blindly pipe curl to sh, ever.

It would be a much better design if it worked the other way around: Aggregate recent security patches into a database and send those to the servers, and have them do a local compare of vulnerabilities. You could charge for the database access and still keep your business model.
All but the first bullet point deal with something other than autocomplete, and (as another user mentioned) CTRL+, takes care of many of your other points.
Hi, we decided to make it easy to setup the tool and run it. The source code is available on GitHub

https://github.com/PatchworkSecurity/cleansweep/blob/master/...

The comments explain what is happening at each step.
Hi, we're currently looking for such tool. Here are some questions that would be helpful for us:

How do you manage vulnerabilities database?

Do you've a list of OSS that this tool covers? Does it integrate with existing scanning tools like Nexpose (http://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/).

Can it scan code repositories?

What information does it capture from the machine? Where is the data center located?

What do you anticipate the bandwidth consumption would be like for this tool?

Any volume discounts?

edit: formatting.
This would be a cool service to integrate with github badges, next to test coverage and build status. e.g. "2 UNPATCHED VULNERABILITIES" or "VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT PASSED"

It should be simple enough to intersect the list of a project's dependencies with a list of libraries with known vulnerabilities.

If you provided this as a free service, you'd get a bunch of free advertising from the github badges, like travis-CI. :)
>In ROUND100, Alice knows Bob will take whatever non-zero offer she makes.

Wait, how does she know that? Can you explain why you consider that the most rational choice for Bob to make? As experiment shows, this is not the optimal strategy, so I don't see why you would call it the "rational" one.

Also, keep in mind that you're describing an iterative game (where the same people play the same game with the same circumstances repeatedly) and the pirate game is non-iterative, since the players and circumstances change between rounds. As you note, iterative games are much more complicated and the sort of induction used in the pirate game doesn't really work.
The big oil companies do a fair amount of this I'm sure, but do you really want to bet a few billion as to exactly how much oil will cost in 2-6 years?

The US consumes 20 million barrels a day, so at current prices that's $600 million a day at $30/bbl and $2 billion a day at $100/bbl. How much do you think you'd have to buy or sell in the futures market to move the price to smooth it out?

Finally, it's very, very hard to know what's short term volatility and what's long term structural. Everyone "knew" that oil prices were going to be high forever because of peak oil and declining production. Turns out, maybe not.
Ok, we put that in the title. The page isn't responding so we can't check it right now, but we'll take your word for it.
H1B fee increase sends Indo-US relations south
I don't think we are watching the same news at all. CBS and NBC regularly have reports that the government would stop if they could.

>I said that some US news is "as bad as" them.

I've seen plenty of reports on NBC or CBS criticizing Obama (or Bush before him), have you ever seen a report that was critical of Putin on RT?

How would this even work. Do they switch stories depending on who is in power?
Can confirm that snapshots from December run almost flawlessly already on an X250. Great work OpenBSD team and roll on 5.9.
Doesn't support tabs, can go DIAF. :-p Or jump in a lake, you downvoting sourpuss sissypants you!

Recently went to check, after a >1 decade break. The man page is 5000 words, tons and tons and tons of options. No tabs though.

Edit: apparently this feature got added last May! Just waiting on my distro now. Sweet! https://github.com/htacg/tidy-html5/issues/108
I'm just going to copy my post word for word from the last time I commented on the Windows 10 privacy issue:

I still can't imagine why Microsoft would think it's worth the bad publicity to not offer the option to disable telemetry, considering how few people tend to deviate from defaults in general, and how tiny a percentage of their users even care about privacy to begin with (evident from the commercial success of Windows 10).

They've been getting so much goodwill for all the other great things they've been doing lately. It just seems downright foolish to squander all of that for a few extra basis points in their telemetry data from those rare few users who care about privacy but are forced to use Windows 10 anyways for whatever reason.

Those who care about privacy but do have a choice in OS will simply avoid Windows 10 altogether because of the mandatory telemetry, which is telemetry data that they wouldn't be getting anyways. A certain percentage of these people could be Windows 10 users if it weren't for the mandatory telemetry. Would they really rather have people using other OSes, than having them use Windows 10 without giving them telemetry data?

So many aspects of their position on this issue seems completely irrational to me.
> How many people are qualified to "verify there's no backdoor to your CPU"?

More than the manufacturer, if it's open, and that's the point.

The manufacturer has an interest or can be pressured into having an interest in keeping backdoors secret. The point is not that every user will themselves audit the firmware, the point is that everyone in principle could either learn to do it themselves or hire someone with the neccessary knowledge to do the audit for them.

Food safety also isn't achieved by having everyone test their food in their own labs, but by anyone being able to hire a lab of their choice to do tests they want to have done.

> Allowing the end-user to modify the firmware at all also allows malicious actors to do the same.

And allowing the end-user to swap out the lock to their house also allows malicious actors to do the same?

Just because you can swap out a flash chip on your mainboard, doesn't mean anyone can come into your house and do the same.
But that code that you linked to does not verify that the file is mp4, moreover, mp4Sig call is commented out.
If the script source is on github and isn't run under sudo, is there a meaningful difference between curl | sh and apt-get install from a PPA, gem/pip install, etc?
I had this in my favorites. It wasn't supposed to be a guide. You may be right about those solutions not working anymore. However the problems are still there. I had to disable several of those telemetry tools in the Task Scheduler just yesterday on my Win7. I'm pretty sure I've done this before.

The only thing that changed since the preview build is that there are 3rd party tools to do the job for you...
Lost 60lbs last year and got back to a semblance of decent shape (used to be a exercise nut) that had a big effect but not the largest effect.

That came from sorting out my sleep, I set an alarm for 8am and no matter how tired I was I got up at 8am, after 3-4 days I naturally fell into a proper sleep pattern (head down around midnight, asleep by half past).

I've struggled on and off with insomnia since I was a teenager and this "up at 8 every day" approach has worked really well so far, sucks getting up at 8am on a weekend when you have nothing to do but tight sleep pattern is worth more.
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Is anyone actually surprised?

The competence of politicians with technology has always been abysmal.
A company like Ford with a massive dealer network, good relationships with fleet buyers and other things that a new entrant doesn't have.

If I want to buy a Tesla, I need to drive 150 miles and hope the thing never breaks. I have 4-5 Ford dealers within 20 minutes.

Those dealers are sales channels, service channels and capable of doing more stuff. With the right strategy, those legacy disadvantages can be advantages. If Apple is able to build the capability to build a car in a couple of years, it's ridiculous to think that a company in the car business for a century cannot do it.
They lost me at the point, after demonstrating how a functor can be defined on a list, when they claimed that a functor can similarly be defined on a binary tree.

One of the ten or so "Aha!" moments that each Haskell novice must experience on one's journey to mastery is the realization that you can't make Set an instance of Functor, at least as Functor is commonly defined in the standard Prelude. And the reason why one cannot do so is echoed by their misleading diagram in which their functor replaces each node in a binary tree with its mapped value. What needs to be appreciated is that the resulting tree is no longer ordered (assuming that the original was), and cannot be used to locate an element in logarithmic time.
That's a question we hear quite often. The LoRaWAN specification [1] defines three classes of devices. Class C nodes are powered on all the time, which indeed has consequences for the energy consumption. For more energy constrained devices, Class B offers some kind of scheduled rendez-vous, and Class A devices only receive downlink messages after (in response to) sending an uplink message. This allows nodes to switch of their radio when they don't need it.

[1]: The LoRaWAN specification be downloaded here: http://www.lora-alliance.org/For-Developers/LoRaWANDeveloper...
CPU power management support has improved in 5.8. Better ACPI support and the drivers now use more lower-power C states.

"acpicpu(4) uses ACPI C-state information to reduce power consumption of idle CPUs. "

http://www.openbsd.org/58.html
Thanks. This, actually might not be a bad fit! Thanks so much.
I think you're unfairly using some of TNR's worst moments to condemn their entire body of work. (And it's a little bizarre to mock them for being Jewish in literally the same sentence that you accuse them of racism.)
> It very much feels like the freedom to move to an abandoned island and not pay taxes or be subject to any government.

It might be a stretch to be able to use Coreboot for work or entertainment at the moment, unfortunately. But consider that those specs are just fine for most privacy sensitive stuff. Tor, email, banking… etc.

So for a separate, trusted, privacy-focused box a few years old, slightly slower CPU is not a big deal. And you get the compartmentalization for free!

That’s my perspective, at least.
Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985)
I still don't understand, you seem to be responding with jargon.

The point made was that your 'equilibrium' is not valid because a pirate voting that way decreases their expected return. I don't see how you need a different 'equilibrium concept' for your proposed solution, when the basic assumption of rationality excludes it.

Not trying to be mean, but your response seems obfuscatory.
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> In general, I cannot understand why people continue to use frequentist methods on policy problems -- that is, problems where you are inherently looking for Pr(Hypothesis | Data), and where, due to all of the many, many pitfalls from the above sources and elsewhere, you can be sure that Pr(Data | Hypothesis) is not at all a suitable proxy for Pr(Hypothesis | Data).

To some extent, this is inherent to the application of the tools. In an A/B test, done by a business, it is incomplete to apply 'just' a frequentist hypothesis test (whether or not you fall into any of the traps) or just a Bayesian test with a relatively arbitrary threshold like 99% probability of improvement. As has been pointed out many times, your standard A/B test is focused solely on precisely whether there is an effect or not, while ignoring all the costs and benefits; which means you get precise expensive estimates of the wrong thing. You need to broaden the picture and explicitly acknowledge that it's a decision theory problem and this is why multi-armed bandits are the right framework for A/B testing.

Unfortunately, it takes so much time and effort to understand all the statistical material about testing and power and binomials and whatnot that anything to do with decision theory tends to be relegated to advanced courses or later textbook chapters, if people ever hear of decision theory (or reinforcement learning, or sequential trials, or multi-armed bandits) at all. You might consider decision theory to be the flower of statistics, in which all the cookbooks and algorithms reach their justifications and you know when you can break the various rules of thumb you've learned, but it requires so much time to teach the biology of plants that few students get there or are still interested.

I'm trying to consolidate decision theory materials at https://www.reddit.com/r/DecisionTheory/ (submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10897324 ) if you want to read up more on this topic.
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He's got dollar signs in his eyes, and he's hoping to use people's desperation for investor money to lower their guard.

Wild guess: He's going to sell you management consulting, in which he tells you all the money you can save by outsourcing your software development. Any 'seed funding' he gives will be eaten up by a deal with him and somebody he knows, who will play the software developer. When that runs out, you'll look for additional funding and spend it on his buddy who shares a cut with him. He might get a share of the company, but I don't think he cares about it.
How many bombs did the United States drop in 2015?
If you cannot reflash the firmware or insert yourself into the boot process, who else still can?

Just because your hardware prevents you from inspecting and modifying it, doesn't mean it prevents everyone else from doing so. Very much the opposite. If you can't inspect it, chances are it does allow others to use your hardware against you.
Because it is actually not easy? Keep in mind Apple has unprecedented resources so not easy is not really a problem for them, as Musk pointed out recently they've hired thousands of people to work on this. Also I think it has been done to some extent, Tesla's Model S is now (by some measures) the bestselling luxury car, and can probably be credited with accelerating BMW and Porsche moving towards all-electric vehicles.
I think he's describing a different problem, since he mentions majority voting. If I was splitting a cake with 2 other people (A and B), A suggested fair division into thirds, and B suggested half for me and half for B, B's suggestion would clearly win the vote.
That's not entirely true.

They game the system by automating lineups that allow them to play multiple games a day.
Meaningful? In most cases no, but since we're already talking about security, curl'ing the shell script from github exposes you to another attack vector, like MITM'ing the script.
Top right corner - click on your account icon, "sign out"

This will sign you out of all google apps
Would you bet you live on the assumptionthat there is no way a network problem could truncate the script into something, that does something unintended but harmful?

http://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html
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What patent claim would void the MIT grant?

The MIT license grant subsumes all other restrictions and gives explicit permission to deal.
There's pretty good evidence that lots of American media outlets are government mouthpieces - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent for example
"We’re talking 13,000 kilometers of track [...] across a layout that’s now takes up almost 14,000 square feet."

That would be half a mile of track on each square feet; even 13 kilometer seems crowded to me.

Looking at their site, I learn it is 13 km on (1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) plus lots of interconnections between the sections; a lot of that track is out of sight.

And by the way, their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV) is worth watching, in particular Gerrit's Tagebuch (diary) (edit: videos are German spoken)
Unless it's in a landfill where even newspapers last well over 50 years still readable:

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=qhYDD8joCbQC&lpg=PT574&o...
I've always thought of it as a tax on people who are bad at math.
What's the difference between downloading and executing a binary, installing a package (apt-get, pip, gem, etc), and curl | sh which makes the later so bad?
I prefer the more cynical version: "The only way to win is to cheat."
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Using C++ libraries from other languages comes to mind.
I have found the advertisements to be very interesting in Denver too. They more or less imply that you are going to win. Some of the claims are along the lines of "How are you going to spend your millions?"
Here they would never let the casinos put an ad like that up. I guess that's the wonderful part of state sponsored gambling is that it gets to ignore state consumer protection controls.
What you've actually shown is that someone who bought all possible tickets that do not contain 7 has less chances of winning than someone who bought one each of all possible combinations that do not contain 7 has less chance of winning that someone who bought one each of all possible combinations.

For someone buying a single ticket excluding 7 has no effect at all on their chances that their ticket will win.