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Making it free does make it less difficult, and thus weakens the signal. Many (probably most) college students go through financial hardship or at least financial inconvenience during college.
#1 Less fraud, but not no fraud.

#2 The system you describe is also bureaucracy.
People still use *AMP stacks?

Edit: I was serious about that; I was under the impression that most stacks use much lighter weight http daemons than Apache these days. I understand that legacy apps are still out there and not everyone is going to refactor, but anyone developing web applications under Apache in 2016 is just a glutton for punishment...
Yes, in my hobbies. Work is a context where I have to force myself regardless of how I feel or I get fired. Motivating yourself to be equally disciplined in your hobbies where there is no incentive to do so is much more difficult. Stop attempting to dismantle me and post a proper reply instead, otherwise we're done.
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I was considering Varnish + Nginx at some point, but this gets much more complicated than just using ATS.
It's going well! Finally found a couple of co-founders, building a new version based on lessons learned from the alpha. The data model finally works the way I want it to work.
Sigh. Shoddy reporting, and people who don't take responsibility for themselves. The girl says she blacked out and then remembered someone picking her up. Right.

How this became a national story, I'll never know. But I do know I've been in situations with young adults who don't own their mistakes, or find ways to do what they want to do, such that it seems like they had no other choice. You look like a monster as a kid is "practically dying" while you know their history and brutally selfish tactics.
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> whose certificate authority it does not recognize as bona fide

That's a very strange criteria; do you mean that anything that would have been a certificate error gets MITMed instead, rather than rejected? Very strange.
Unless it becomes the norm, what's more likely is that they'd just ignore people from that university unless they had a good reason not to.
Mark Zuckerberg Hugs AI While Alphabet Beats Human “Go” Champion
> Give them a second chance.

That is exactly what compulsive liars/sociopaths like Shane Smith want: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/03/vice-founder-famous-for-tr...

The documentaries and reporting produced by Vice are entertaining, but their standards of reporting basically make them a hipster tabloid.
What evidence is there that this pricing has anything to do with Intel's dominance in the market? It's possible that only a small percentage of chips from a fab run work reliably at the higher clock speed, and customers are willing to pay a premium for these rare, faster chips.
What were the other warning signs which seemed as severe as the O-ring problem without the benefit of hindsight?

Your quote claims that it would have been much more expensive to address all of these things, but what's the support for that statement?

My (extremely limited, to be sure) understanding is that there wasn't anything else that severe. The O-ring problem was dire, and the only reason it didn't get attention was because schedule pressure and go-fever caused management to minimize the problem.

Note that the warning signs mentioned in the quote were not just theoretical test results, but also several cases where fire was getting where it was not supposed to be during actual flights. Further, there was strong evidence that these incidents were linked to cold weather. "Don't fly when it's really cold" wouldn't have been a particularly expensive mitigation, either, even if you argue that suspending flights until the problem was investigated and fixed was not reasonable. I mean, you're launching from Florida, a restriction not to launch in temperatures under 50F wouldn't have been a terrible burden.

How many other warning sings were as severe as the O-rings and as easy to mitigate? My money is on "zero" in which case this argument is just so much noise.
When I ported my frontend to TypeScript I swapped out the whole observ* suite for my own typed observables. Sure, some of the components are too specific to replace trivially, but then those most likely aren't the ones you're interested in replacing.

Decomposing your code into modules is step one. Making the interface between your modules generic enough to easily replace is the next problem, but if your code is a monolithic blob in the first place that's not going to be possible.

My main issue with modularity in JavaScript is the lack of strict typing, because you won't know if your interface fits correctly until runtime - which is why I've been looking into TypeScript and Elm recently.
There was an interview with Jonathan Blow several years ago in Game Informer, close to when Braid came out. Blow said he'll never explain publicly what the game meant to him so people could have their own explanations not be overshadowed by his authorial intent.

He also said he responded to people who emailed him their interpretation. At the time of the interview only one person correctly guessed Blow's own interpretation.

I can't even imagine what the real answer could be.
Wow, how did that happen? I meant to write centimeters.
I think it's too hard to explain what's good about the game without spoilers, so the positive reviews don't have much content.
I sympathize with the authors of Varnish and nginx; their software is used all over the place, and they want to make a living at it. I just don't want to support that kind of business model, and I'm never dealing with per-server license compliance again.

I wish more companies would model themselves after Percona: charge for support, custom engineering and on-call -- don't fork or paywall any code.

ATS suffers by comparison, since there is no "ATS Inc." to provide support and engineering work. There's OmniTI, but I don't have first hand experience with their service to say if it's worthwhile or not. They did get paid to write the current ATS docs, so presumably they know what they're doing.

I wish ATS got more attention, but it is after all a bit of a niche product hidden away in the Apache Foundation with a bunch of unrelated Java projects. It's too fiddly for small scale use, and once you hit large scale you're pretty much hiring someone from Yahoo or elsewhere that has experience running and developing it (for example: I'd like to hire ATS people). Doesn't give it a lot of opportunity to trickle into smaller shops and grow with their service.
JavaScript Job Market in 2016
Isn't that what the government is for?
Facebook’s algorithm hides important posts in its newsfeed and Twitter’s overwhelming volume obfuscates them. Here's some work around options to get what you want.
1) Look into configuration management. Ansible and Salt Stack are both python-based so everyone should be able to contribute if needed.

2)It's popular to run your automation through CI tools like Jenkins because it has auditing and logging built in and it's easy to set up.

3) Don't run bower/npm install/update on production because if npm or github go down then your production site will break because a partial code change has taken place. You should build (and test) on a separate server and then copy the code changes over to production.

Really you're looking for a Capistrano for python apps. If you're going to build a deployment tool on your own it's worth looking at their approach. For python, fabric is a fairly standard way to automate code deployments. The good news is that you're on the right path. Having automated deployment procedures will give devs a lot more time back AND remove a whole class of errors

I've moved my current company's deployment from manual line by line ftp deployment to an automated build and deploy using Jenkins to trigger ansible playbooks. Given the choice, I'd probably just use capistrano or fabric instead of building from scratch. I'd estimate that we've saved several months of work per a year in both deployment time and in debugging production issues.
Love that piece. It's worth pointing out also that Keith was there only for the final year of office, rather than near the beginning, which is one of the best pieces of anecdata against the post-1994 ongoing dementia theory (which a priori I still think is more likely than the "playing dumb" theory). There is of course other anecdata on Bush not being as intelligent as Keith claims, but the big issue that should make most people have low confidence in either extreme is it's hard for people to form an accurate mental model of the President. The 4th image from http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/04/08/the-essence-of-peopling... highlights the issue.
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I think GWB is probably pretty intelligent, but this is basically psychic "remote sensing" applied to IQ testing. Is there any evidence this technique of estimating IQs works?
There is no such requirement in my state.
I can't say I've ever been convinced that those who rant against school are "really, really smart". Mostly they just sound like people who are insecure in their choices.
I disagree. Storing as UTC is the only sane way. It will never get corrupted. Calculating the timezone difference for the user is not that hard and won't result in a database full of mistakes you have to scramble to fix.
When I get into my classes at my university I get the textbook, read into the book a little and say "ok, I remember learning about this from X, Y, and Z project I've worked on".

I then go on to goof off in every class, as I am doing right this moment.

Nothing I have learned is of substance in my algorithms, computer science, or programming classes that I did not already know before I enrolled. I'm bored, and I want to learn something new.

I'm holding out for some 300 & 400 level courses, but from what I hear the courses I am looking forward to on operating systems is nothing more than "This is how you open a file in C" and the data structures classes I look forward to is basically "this is how you define a tree and how you traverse a tree".
Yes it must, because self-signed carts offer no defense against MITM.
In your Direct Hardware Control chapter, please include a bit on targeting embedded systems like ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers. For instance, how to get started and problems/gotchas to watch out for. I'm going to try this out myself over the next few months so let me know if you need me to try something out or for a chapter review.
One option is to get one of those big name companies to write a report on how much that change cost to the economy due equipment that had to be written off, downtime, etc.

Doesn't have to accurate, just impressive. And then maybe next time, circulate the report just before the decision has to be taken.
Thanks, missed that one.
Some people do that, for exactly that reason, although it comes off sometimes as a bit cringey.
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Ask HN: Why is referrer control not working for WSJ?
I usually use referrer control to spoof my referring link to news.google.com.

But, it stopped working today for some reason. I block cookies from WSJ so that's not the reason.

It doesn't allow me to read anything but shows me the sign in/ subscribe page.
It's worth noting that the Abrahamic religions have only been in the ascendancy in the Mediterranean and Middle East for approximately 1500 years. Before then, there was considerably more variation.

Likewise, it would be a similar generalization to assume that Chinese thought has always stayed on the rails of Confucianism. There's Mohism, Legalism, Daoism, various schools of Buddhism (some of the pants-on-head-crazy Millenarian variety), clumps of Islam, Christianity (again, sometimes pants-on-head-crazy, see the Taiping...) as well as shamanistic and animalistic traditions retained by various invading foreign dynasties.
Needs GUI support and statistics support.

Another rewrite of malloc() and string utils is not that useful.
I found RabbitMQ's docs to be pretty useful myself, as long as you are familiar with regular expressions. I set up a system with fewer users and simpler permissions though. Out of curiosity, what did you find lacking?
Hmm, doesn't writing something down increase your ability to remember about it later?

In my case writing seems to work as "hey brain, this stuff is important, don't forget". If I write something, it turns out I didn't need to. If I don't, it turns out I'd have better done.
You're going to have a really hard time getting anyone over to your side when your argument is basically "we need to throw a ton of money at the problem and wait a decade before suggesting maybe that didn't help much." Not saying I disagree with your goal, but politically that's just not going to happen.
The best studies and books I have seen on Basic Income come from Guy Standing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_%28economist%29

"The Precariat" has some great ideas on how the relationship between the state and individual are changing. He also covers the current dynamics in welfare assistance for citizens of a state and demonstrates how basic income would be easier to administer and lessen the burden if proof needed to gain assistance. I also like how he examine s the current status of citizen vs non citizen and proposes the notion of a "denizen."

If you are an a contract programmer I recommend reading "The Precariat." All the extra work you do for work should count for something but it is sometimes not given any recognition.

Watch the youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OraivQ45ME

Standing, Guy; Jhabvala, Renana; Unni, Jeemol; Rani, Uma (2010). Social income and insecurity: a study in Gujarat. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415585743.
Standing, Guy (2011). The Precariat. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781849664554.
Standing, Guy (2014). A Precariat Charter: from denizens to citizens. London New York: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781472510396.
Titles like this could be amazing with VR. Can't wait until Rift + Vive finally start shipping :)
Exciting work! Is pyjion exploratory or is MS determined to see this through?
A capital idea, and a dangerous one
The Fenrir project does something like this. They first establish a encrypted connection and then you can authenticate, or not. The authentication can also be federated.

Its pretty cool, but its not production ready.

The GNUNet has multible layers and do bottum up encryption on the lower levels.
But if this is collective bargaining involving tax money and people who enforce laws with weapons then this is potentially affecting people who can't choose whether or not they like what's happening. I'm not saying public employees should have no privacy - but this is certainly not a situation where everyone can just do what they want and be left alone. Collective bargaining with the government should be transparent. That doesn't necessarily justify leaking what might contain people's personal information without their consent, but just a point that needs remain in the discussion.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the Fraternal Order of Police. We used to support them financially but they were extremely rude and harassed us when we had to step down our donations a bit. There were many people who called us who certainly did not have service to the public as their priority. I don't know much of the context of the dump nor have I viewed it myself, but I'm inclined to be suspicious of them.
Yeah; I find many people in the modern web services world end up using Apache HTTPD as a caching proxy for availability reasons. It's probably just because it's old as hell so everyone knows the config file format by heart, but I know I went with Apache HTTPD on a recent project because the features we needed were only in the paid version of Nginx and we just didn't want to deal with licensing (the dollar amount was trivial in corporate dollars, but it would have taken us months to get the purchase through procurement and the entire rest of the project used open source software). So it's good to have another open source option to keep in mind.
Wallgreens pulls back from Theranos
How drones could become airline's best friend
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It makes sense, considering that nginx is typically ahead of the pack on support for things like SPDY and H2. Plus if you use OpenResty with its Lua functionality, you can do a lot of fancy things in nginx and reduce your dependency on Varnish's VCL. And you have to have something in front of Varnish to do SSL anyway.

VCL in particular is kind of a trap. Early on it can do what you need -- remove a header, set a header, basic branching. Then you want to do basic arithmetic, or validity checking, or anything that isn't suitable for string assignment or regex and you straight up can't do it. VCL makes me long for the power of bash scripts.

Ultimately though, it's really not a great solution to separate these concerns between multiple applications. You're going to get bitten somewhere, even if it's just the old ephemeral port exhaustion problem.
> civil labor usually has an advantage their private-sector counterparts don't: they elect their bosses.

I don't understand this: All unions elect their own leaders, as far as I know. Public sector unions do not elect the heads of the departments where they work, if that's what you mean; the FOP doesn't choose the police chief.

If you mean that union members also have votes in general elections, along with the rest of the public, that's true but their influence is limited (there are many other voters), the 'bosses' are a few steps over their heads (the mayor is elected, not the police chief), and finally, that's the point of democracy: Everyone should have influence, from union members to managers to even Repulicans and Democrats.
> So labor should just take whatever management and politicians feel like giving them like obedient little servants?

When you're the boss (which you are when it comes to public workers), that's exactly what you want. Do you wish your cops were something other than "obedient little servants?" Doesn't it seem like the whole problem with cops in the U.S. is that they don't think they work for you?
Agreed! The API should basically document itself. If you have to provide long examples of how to do something then there is a good chance the API isn't that good. Easy to use for developers makes a platform more stable and produces better quality apps, IMHO.
This is Ken, who wrote the blog. I am in the thread.
The example used is flawed to begin with, in my opinion. Some kind of structure is almost required to learn a language in a reasonable amount of time, assuming there is no immediate access to full immersion 24/7.
Emotion Research Lab detects your emotions using facial recognition
They are viewed the same sports professionals in China/Japan/Korea. Go news would share sports frontpage, and players are paid well. In China the national Go association is managed under the sports council, with dorms and national squads under the association.

As it's a game more popular amongst older demographics, there tend to be a lot of wealthy patrons and supporters (individuals and companies) who sponsor tournaments and teams. One of the highest-paying competitions is the Ing Cup with a prize of $400,000. Japan has nearly 10 major year-long tournaments every year, totaling over $2mil in prizes, many are sponsored by major newspapers.[1] China has domestic year-long leagues, where city teams each have their own sponsors. All the games I mentioned here pay a match fee whether players win or lose.

So yes, it is a popular game in Asia, however less so for the younger demographic and is unfortunately in decline. Most people just don't have the attention span, interest or time these days. :(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_Go_tourna...
Chrome installs in Application Data, which doesn't require admin privileges to modify. That probably makes it an easy target for malware.
My hope is that it helps me keep my comments as "honest" as possible...

An ellipsis simply indicates an omission has occurred...in the case of my writing it simply means that a thought popped into my mind that I considered including to better illustrate the point I'm hoping to make, then decided against it, and wrote something else...

I've written that way for a number of years, mostly with good results...if it's distracting to anyone my apologies...

Perhaps that's why Cormac McCarthy is likely my favorite author...he's well known for short incomplete sentences, yet the "spell" (continuous dream) his writing invokes in readers is never broken...

JFTR, I was writing this way well before I began reading his works...
Is that a real question? How many parents do you know who've taught their kids to read?

If you're like me, it's a couple here and there, but most kids learn to read from school. You can compare data of literacy rates before we had widespread schools in the US, and after.
Immune System Offers Major Clue to Schizophrenia
Well, perhaps they should sell spare parts then. I wrote to them a while ago to ask about buying a couple of replacement shelves for a bathroom cupboard, and was told they only sold complete units.
I would say - skip the Linux port and instead build an Android version.

I have high hopes for the beginning for the convergence (that is already happening with RemixOS) of ChromeOS and android during google i/o.
Yeah I have a CableCARD in my Tivo myself and am terrified of what happens if I ever have to replace it. But this failure of CableCARD suggests FCC regulation isn't sufficient to disrupt the cable company monopoly. I wonder if this new push on set-top boxes will be any different?
I use it to describe the "name brand" that everyone wants although the two are essentially the same.
Zika virus could become 'explosive pandemic'
Hmm, a non-intuitive puzzle isn't really a puzzle anymore, is it?

Q: I have three oranges and one grapefruit. I have to get all of them through a door that's been glued shut. There is no way to open the door. How do I get the fruit through?

A: Blend them and use the tube lying next to the door and pour them through the keyhole.

That's a non-intuitive puzzle. You can't intuit that there's a keyhole, a tube and a blender accessible. With creativity it's solvable, but then again, with creativity you also could argue you could use the hole saw nearby and cut a hole in the door and deposit the fruit on the other side. At this point you're just making things up.
Looks like WSJ found a workaround for that bypass.

Google will not be amused.
> I'm sure gorhill would certainly give his blessing

Not only my blessing, I would be happy to work on whatever is deemed necessary to integrate into TAILS.

A volunteer worked to make uBlock Origin part of Debian earlier this month: https://packages.qa.debian.org/u/ublock-origin.html# -- this at least fulfill one of the condition for TAILS.
Maybe that's the point: whatever can happen to a guy, he might be able to talk, even reach the news that won't cover anything up, and then everybody will just dismiss it like: "This guy sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic. We're The Free country after all." And it will be concluded that he stabbed himself and set his house on fire. Well, you know how these conspiracy theorists are, crazy people!