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I find the general lack of interest in exploring new things in ham radio sad. I'm really happy that SDRs are cheap now and that's making things somewhat better.

It seems that most (or at least very many) hams just do contesting, where there is no innovation or even just learning something new at all and doing well is just a matter of good antenna placement, high power (except for QRP), training and perseverance in repeating the same letters for hours on end. For decades!

Antenna and transmitter characteristics (the equipment is off-the-shelve anyway) and propagation conditions (in contests, all signals are 59 anyway) are really well-researched by now, so why are we wasting time and bands on contests?

Unfortunately most hams don't take the suggestion to stop contesting too well.
Big data analysis + mass surveillance is just more efficient than previous methods.

Let's imagine: 1. citizens have right to fair trial 2. terrorist hunting is not done by police, but by military intelligence organization that cannot arrest, attack or sue anybody, just gather data and inform police/military or prosecutor 3. that military organization is supervized by democratically elected guy (president) 4. Law that defines clearly when such information can be used, and defensive attorneys are not excluded from using it.

That organization being part of military is inportant. If it's actually clandestine organization with priority of defence, it should be unwilling to reveal it's capability to foreign players. Unless it's actually matter of national security. This is probably happening already with multitude of military forces and we never hear about it. Shit only starts when police starts doing same stuff while disregarding fair trial. SS-troops and KGB we're pretty good at fucking up people even prior to mass surveillance and big data analysis.
Surely the pragmatic user who wants to get stuff done is the power user. You take the effort to learn the advanced stuff because you want the shell to get out of your way.
I'd be suspicious an Israel company was cooperating with US national security agencies in the first place.
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Missed the opportunity for word play from the get-go.
It is a bit unfortunate he omitted Korea (both Koreas, since it is ambiguous). I would expect North Korea to have shown up quite often. There appears to be a certain morbid fascination with that country on this site (which I can somehow understand).
That's true for student tuitions, but availability of money doesn't increase demand for a specific product/market, so if the prices in supply-constrained markets increase, some people will use that money for something else instead, reducing the demand pressure.

Similarly, local minimum wage laws might be eaten by rent increases, since they're tied to those area and jobs. But a BI would make it much easier for people to move out, distributing the demand over cheaper areas.
We're killing people in a country were not even at war with over statistics. Not evidence, but statistics. People who statistical might have something against us. Since when has this been grounds for killing someone? This is utterly terrifying.

Just imagine if someone decided to do this to us.
How does Pakistan feel about all this?

This is approaching Auschwitz levels of evil.
Assuming it's not all homegrown, can anyone determine what software he was using besides MPlayer?
There's enough of a keel to sail into the wind with some clever sailwork: we did it on our re-enactment boat years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc "We kill people based on metadata" - Michael Hayden, ex NSA-Chief.
The article's website seems to have a 100% fail rate.

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This article talks about that effect (with a similar example):

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/sounds...
Even '&&' to join two commands (fish uses '; and').
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This has to be a joke. You must realize I am a design critic.
Probably locked down the physical machines at the hospital.

>Most hospitals use proprietary electronic medical record systems. These are layered constructs of different networks requiring different passwords and VPNs for their different functions.

That's idealistic. Usually they're giant pieces of shit.
Thank you for the laugh!
These always help:
Get more sunlight (if possible)
Eat whatever you like. Ice cream if you wish
Talk with someone you like

For the specific questions, solve them. You are not married to your job, your boss, your girlfriend or your city.
> Yes and the question is how many application really needs more performance than we have today?

Careful with that, it's like saying "640k should be enough for everybody" or "who ever needs optical fiber ? Copper is absolutely fine". It is in fact an "unknown unknown", and we should make sure it transitions at least to the "known unknown" category.

What kind of application could we do with more power, then ? I'm thinking about AI and personal assistants that Google and Facebook are trying to sell us: things that analyze the vast trove of our emails, browsing pattern, commands, habits and extract useful information for our lives. These traditionally sit in a datacenter because of the computing power needed to reliably guess what I'm looking for and giving me the right answer instantly. So, if we had more computing power available in any of our own computer, wouldn't it be better to have that assistant on our smartphone ?
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The problem lies when your application grows. Remember that one of the "rules" in computer science is modularity.

Here's a couple of examples
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For example, lets say you have a data set that returned user information. Combining it directly with the html may be easier. The issue happens when you want to use that same data (or portions of a that data) elsewhere. From there you would have to rewrite the query. Having the data-set separated (either in a class or a function that returns raw data, then having that data parsed and placed within html works much better. There you don't have to rewrite anything (and have the satisfaction that the data "works").

On the other side, separating the html will be helpful as well. Say that the interface has now changed. You are not going to remove a column in a table and reorganize other components. Instead of having to look through the code where you may have placed the html with the data, all you need to do is to make your changes accordingly in your presentation layer.

All in all, it may seem like a lot more work to get things started (I don't use MVC in the traditional sense, and instead have my own programming rig). The reward lies when you can separate duties among team members. Someone can work on the presentation (and the browser compatibility issues that it includes) while another one can work on the business logic. So on and so forth.
Apropos of nothing:

> English is the lingua franca of the world

I love reading, and hearing, these words. Heh.
Do you have a source? I don't see that detail in the Wikipedia article and didn't find confirmation in a few Google searches.
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There's a meme in ham radio that's been around over half a century that "ham radio is dying woe is me". Its funny reading impassioned letters to the editor in 1950 about this being the last generation of operators, nobody new will ever enter the hobby, etc.

Its useful for non-hams to know this is a very old and unkillable meme.

There are other long lived memes in ham radio such as its impossible to build equipment at home anymore, its impossible to install/solder whatever connector everyone is using at this time (anderson powerpole for DC, PL-259 RF connectors, hardline connectors, etc), its impossible to do surface mount at home, my antenna system is great but anyone who spent less than me has a "compromise antenna" because they didn't spend as much as me, all frequency bands above which I operate are line of sight only (no matter if that's 80 meter phone band or 47 GHz the ops say it the same way). There's been trolling on the voice band segments of 80 and 20 meters since at least the 50s. Another popular meme is ham radio might be an infinitely large map to explore for a lifetime but my favorite activity is "real ham radio" with a side dish of the map may be infinitely large but how far I've gotten, no matter how small, is as large as the whole thing is. Hams do have amateur physicists who understand radio propagation vs the ionosphere as well as any professional, but there's probably two guys disseminating pure bro-science for every reality based amateur physicist, I donno if broscience counts as a meme, I guess so. There are a lot of weird memes about age and ham radio because to some extent money and time result in a longer ranged station, therefore most of the guys you'll talk to have the longest ranged most expensive stations therefore you'll get the peculiar idea that all hams are 70, whereas what it really means is if you spend a lifetime building up your station you tend to end up with a really impressive station just before you die.

I refer to the 50s alot above not because it started then, but as a third generation ham, my ancestors had a lot of old magazines and books to read when I was growing up. The hobby mostly being male and often transmitted from father to son is highly susceptible to the overall cultural trends WRT single parenthood and boys growing up without male role models.
Damn, the ads have devolved and are harder to block. At least don't show the ad to non-macs.
Where did the 80% metric come from?
Hah, it's odd to see everyone making pretty much the same things. I sent a WiFi-enabled LED strip controller based on the ESP off just yesterday:

http://dirtypcbs.com/view.php?share=16892&accesskey=996a11f9...

You can use it to program your RGB LED strips from your computer! Now you can finally have the entire apartment slowly change color to red in the hours before bed!
These American rules are tedious, time consuming, and just awful.

I'm not saying I'm a fan of the hookup. It gets old, and after a certain age; I found myself asking, if he/she does these things with me--what is she/he doing with others? Do I need to make a doctor's appointments?

That said, it would be nice to tone down the formalities/games. We have this game in the U.S., and I bet it's still going on.

This game is required by both sexes, but more geared towards men. If you really like someone, want to marry that person, would die for this person; how do you go about courting.

Be kinda mean, aloof, distant. Never let on just how much you love them. If you breakdown too early and spill all your wants/desires, you might have just blown the whole relationship.

We are then stuck with a tedious game. A game that can literally last years. Resentment builds up, and then that wonderful person is finally perusing you. At this point, you don't want them anymore, or that was my experience. I never liked the game, but was guilty of playing it too.

(In my younger days, there was this stunning brunette, who would sit on her '89 Toyota 4 x4 tailgate. She would try to time her sitting to my running schedule. She looked like an athletic Winona Ryder. She was sweet, and beautiful. She wanted to date. I avoided her. I felt she was too foreword. Not dating her was one of my biggest errors. I was so stupid. I still can't believe I was so stupid.)
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It's mentioned, albeit in the second-last line of the whole presentation, as a possible reaction to GPU-based sorting in the future.
This is basically what I do. I'm a supervisor for a county government, and spend a lot of my day at a desk waiting for the phone to ring. I'm still learning to code, so it helps to actually do something other than think sometimes.

To this end, because I can't install a programming environment on my work computer, I installed Linux on my 15 year-old Dell and use the secure shell extension for Chrome to connect. Being forced to do everything in a terminal has really sharpened my Emacs skills. I typically spend a good portion of my day secretly hacking away.
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How much a branding has actually impact in a product like this? Uber is pretty much the only option for ridesharing in my country, and I guess in most countries in the world. I guess you can harm the brand a little by doing some redesign or something, but I think in the end it doesn't matter that much. The most important thing is that the product works, for a good enough price. I personally at least don't care a bit what the uber icon on my phone is, and I doubt that majority of consumers do.
Every now and again I give Fish a try, think how great it is, and then try to do something like `sudo !!` and give up in a fit of rage.

I understand the desire to avoid using the special chars but the alternative (using the cursor keys) is just too cumbersome. It turns out that when you use the shell for everything, efficiency is the thing that matters the most.

Not complaining - I'm not the target audience - I just find it an interesting observation about usability.
It is fun bashing uber but I am not sure this is quite as bad in all respects as this article makes out. In particular I like the black square icon, it is bold and unique. Their Android and ios icons though are pretty bad. Too bad they couldn't have stayed with the bold black square for those as well with some way to ensure it has good visibility.

Black monolith icon -- I like it.
Yeah but nothing going on in the national security state makes much sense. The CIA drone program needs targets. It devours them. When they ran out of real intelligence they started killing people they didn't even know the name of because they "looked like terrorists", check out signature strikes.

Those drones are going to be tasked no matter what. If the quality of the input intelligence is crap, well, good thing it's all top secret right!
I got 405, what do you all get? :P

Jokes aside its a clever and simple idea.
What happens if you enclose 'HEAD@{1}' in single quotes?
And yet the CPU inside my phone is at least twice more powerfull than the one I use 2 yeargo while consuming less powe. Maybe mobile phone CPU is where the research is focussed now and wher moore law live?
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The Wired piece said they decided on that but then turned it sideways after seeing the State Bank of India logo.
I have no idea what a "millennial point" is, but you'd probably get a better response if you explained why not.
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I don't see how linking to an Illegal download for Wall-e is beneficial, or news. I don't believe this belongs here.
I can guess what you must mean but I can't find any references about it. Got a link?
I wonder if this destruction of brand equity will mean Uber have to write down the "intangible assets" section of their balance sheet.
This email epitomizes what all organizations tend to become. As they grow, they need to find ways to grow themselves bigger - and they CANNOT do that if they are solving the problem. Thus organizations develop many ways to justify their growth without doing anything - for example - use more words and do less work. As result T-shirts and latrines do not get delivered and lengthy emails clog the bandwidth.
It helps that English adapts to the current zeitgeist relatively fast and can kind of act as an ombudsman for the spreading of news concepts and ideas to other languages.
> Americans, as I understand it, tend to have “the talk” which is a clear idiom for an actual conversation where they mutually decide to “be exclusive”

American here. Neither I nor, to my knowledge, any of my close friends in relationships have had this "talk" you speak of. In my experience, expectations around monogamy (or not) are not explicit but typically pretty clear from the nature of the relationship.
Dates are a way to spend time with someone that you otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity -- because you don't know each-other, have no friends in common, just met, etc.

People are much more spread out in the US than in Europe, so if you don't intentionally make time to spend with someone you will never see them.

(This doesn't really apply to the cities, but people don't really go on dates in the cities in the US.)
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It's just a straight-up image and a link. While I hate advertising, this is a compromise I'm willing to accept.
At the time of the acquisition the site made money in two ways:

1. Affiliate sales: when you click on a domain and register it through GoDaddy, Namecheap, etc, I get a % of the purchase price.

2. Premium accounts: Lean Domain Search only showed the top 150 results for free. You could pay $79 once for two months of access or $199/year for access to all 5,000 results.

Each was bringing in around $1,000-$1,500/month with the premium accounts growing quickly.

After the acquisition, we made the site free but left the affiliate links in place. The site has grown a lot since then [1] but the affiliate revenue still brings in the same $1,000 - $1,500/month because GoDaddy (the main driver of affiliate revenue) made some changes to its affiliate program that led to lower payouts.

[1] http://mattmazur.com/2015/07/03/lean-domain-search-at-3%C2%B...
Well, they can generate new certificates for as long as they have access to your machine. Take that access away, and they can't generate certificates anymore.

All in, the Lets Encrypt way brings you more security. Since the certificate validity is shorter, even generating an extra certificate will give the attacker a smaller average time with a valid cert than stealing your StartSSL cert.
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OP likes it too, unless he's being sarcastic. Really, it's hard to tell sometimes.

> The bit makes for a great favicon, and reminds us of the great work of early modernist painters. Left, Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915. Right, Uber Favicon, 2016.

> Of all the brands based on squares, Uber's is the most exciting.
It would be difficult to create such persuasive adversarial examples in this case. Humans can recognize images well, so it's obvious for us that those adversarial examples are nowhere near what neural net thinks they are. It would not be as obvious with a list of phone calls.
Works well and very fast for me. Checked that you are not behind a firewall that block finger?

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If you can get a gdb stub onto an embedded system, you can do a lot of cool stuff, up to and including running its firmware in an emulator and forwarding I/O accesses to the real hardware (!), which gives you basically unlimited visibility into the code. You can see Jonas Zaddach et al.'s Avatar paper (PDF: http://www.s3.eurecom.fr/docs/ndss14_zaddach.pdf , code: http://www.s3.eurecom.fr/tools/avatar/ ) for more details.
https://theintercept.com/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/
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HN barely pays attention to anything outside of silly valley, in or outside of the US. Lots of spam and low quality marketing content for shitty west coast startups.
It would be a strange use of sarcasm, in my opinion, to use it to keep people arguing to no avail. I'd rather call that disingenuous goading, not honest sarcasm.

Personally, I'm rather fond of sarcasm and irony. But if I find myself in a dialogue, and another party seems to not get the point of a sarcastic or ironic comment, then I will point out the miscommunication.
I see lots of doubt about the ridiculous nature of this program described in this article. People saying it's not possible.

Are you sure? https://theintercept.com/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/
I believe credit card chips are examples of PUFs. CC terminals do a challenge-response through the chip in order to verify it, and the only way to pass the challenges would be with a perfect copy of the embedded chip (which is presumably difficult to physically steal). This is why chips+pin is an improvement on the CC swipe: because anybody can steal a magstripe code.
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* who will then produce evidence to show that this particular program does exactly what it tries to to*

No they won't, because they've been challenged to do such things repeatedly in the past and always failed.

These people live in a foreign country and it's not like the US Govt dispatches a bunch of detectives and lawyers based on the results of this ML model. Get real. The intelligence is handed off to the CIA without revealing how it's generated, the CIA then says "we got a list of terrorist couriers from the NSA, let's go get em" and boom, off it goes.

This is all incredibly well documented.

There is simply no mathematical way the program described in the article can be accurate, that's what the entire article is about. So I don't see why you have such profound faith in them. It's quite clear they're a bunch of maths geeks who have a single hammer and will use it to hammer any US foreign policy problem regardless of how much it resembles a nail or not.
Seems awful. It's paying people piecemeal, and not developing a collabrative team. The developers will not give a shit about the project overall, just completing the tickets. Business people need guidance from programmers to make it all fit together.

Most of the quality control stuff, comes straight from Agile techniques. I.E Never breaking build, making sure the main code line is always ready to be deployed.
This reads like an oddly smug attack on a fairly successful redesign.
Yes. I feel like anyone considering such a system should be forced to read "The Base-Rate Fallacy and its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection":

http://www.raid-symposium.org/raid99/PAPERS/Axelsson.pdf
Indeed. This was my seconds thought, immediately following "Why are they using an inverted C for their logo?!"
The first thing that came to my mind when I first saw their new icon was electroencephalogram stickers[1], or maybe those stickers that hold on heart monitors in the hospital.

1. see pic on the right here: http://www.epilepsygroup.com/notes6-35-63/new_patient.php

EDIT: I was told by my friend who is a nurse that the more accurate example would be "telemetry leads" - http://www.wireless-technology-advisor.com/images/cardiac-te...
Informers. Of which there are a limited number ... and of course they are themselves not entirely reliable which is why virtually all developed western countries have scrapped the death penalty.
For me, it was the "Fish breaks flow control in child processes" bug/feature, https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2315

Super annoying, to me at least.
Have an instance with plain-text http running only the Lets Encrypt challenge. Make an explicit rule for it on your load balancer, and deploy it first.
I like this, are you planning on opening up an API? I could use this feature for http://imadefood.com that I launched a few weeks ago. Might be able to work something mutually beneficial.
Uhm, the article talks about mentions OF a country, not nationalities of commenters.

So your posts point is somewhat strange - you just generated several mentions of "China" yourself and you're not (I'm guessing) Chinese, neither is your post propaganda or promotes "positive China".

Did you perhaps misunderstand the original article?