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> Overall, GSA is one of the best agencies when it comes to open source. It has definitely come a long way, but still a long way to go.

I think it's never been a better time to get approvals/clarifications/etc for open source at GSA. GSA's CIO posted a supportive comment on this issue here, w/r/t the White House's proposed source code policy (and 18F's comment on it), and reinforced that GSA has an "open source first" internal policy for the enterprise on the books:

https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/73#i...

Of course, policies only give people the space to spend energy making the policy really mean something -- which I encourage you to do. Find me on 18F's GitHub or GSA email any time if you have ideas you want to talk about.
I'd go a step further and propose it's systemic problem that will occur with any closed powerful agency with a mission (NSA, Anonymous, North Korea): if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Once you've decided you're The GoodGuy™, anybody who stops you becomes The Enemy™. It's just a matter of time until you're wrong and those trying to stop your error become The Enemy™.
> except the Linux guys

And the BSD guys, and the GNU/Hurd guys, and the ReactOS guys, and the Haiku guys, etc, etc ;) More things in heaven and earth and all that...
One of the features of the Z80 was built-in memory refresh, so it needed a lot less glue logic than most processors, which had to have external registers and latches to handle the refresh cycles.

Way back I used to hand solder Z80 embedded controller board prototypes, and they never needed much in the way of chippery.

In an S100 system the biggest extras were the video (formerly VDU) cards, and the memory cards.

Both were limited by the RAM of the day, because RAM came in tiny sizes like 1 bit x 16k dynamic or 2k x 8 static. So you needed a lot of chips on a separate board for what was really not much RAM at all.

Also, money. 64k boards cost over $1000, which is > $3k in modern money.

Now you can get 8 bit x 256k static RAM on a single chip, so you can park that next to the processor without a separate card. With a bit of glue you can even share it with the graphics hardware, eliminating any need for separate graphics RAM.
> I still wouldn't worry about it for humans, though, as simple genetic testing and further editing could counteract it.

It might not show up in genetic testing unless you knew what to look for. And if you found some modification, currently it would not be ethical to try to reverse it in the germline (because these gene editing techniques are not perfect and can introduce potentially deadly errors). I think it is worth thinking more seriously about what we would do to counteract gene drives in humans, whether caused by neo-Nazis, terrorists, or well-meaning parents. Gene drives in other species, wild or domesticated, could are more of a threat in the short term.
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It strikes me as something of a Roguelike. I've been watching Scott Manley play it (on YouTube) and it reminds me, too, of a lot of the games from the mid-1980s.

The drone aspect has me thinking of the game Deactivators, three robots with different rooms, bomb disposal.
What it actually does [0] is set group policy according to the Microsoft specified methods [1]. It would have helped in this situation as not only would Windows not have downloaded the update in the first place, it would have deleted it had it already been somehow downloaded.

[0]: https://www.grc.com/never10/details.htm

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351
As I understand it, you have to be on an enterprise installation to avoid the nagware, the sort that typically places hundreds of users under centralized group policy administration. Just buying a "Professional" or "Ultimate" edition license isn't enough.
If your in it for the mission, not the money consider applying as a Code For America fellow:

https://www.codeforamerica.org/do-something/work-with-us

There are a lot of cities that could use your help. I am in no way connected with them but am a huge fan of their mission.
I assume you mean P(c) = P(a) P(b) + P(b) P(a) (i.e., you can get to p+6 as p+2+4 or as p+4+2) = 2 P(a) P(b)? But even so, that's not true, because you're messing with conditional probabilities in a weird way.

Let k be any integer. Consider the probabilities a) k+2 is a multiple of 10, b) k+4 is a multiple of 10, and c) k+6 is a multiple of 10. P(a), P(b), and P(c) are all 0.1, but your approach would claim that P(c) is 0.02. And P(k + 30 is a multiple of 10) is also still 0.1.
> Seriously, I love this show, but the American equivalent would be if France and China teamed up as an evil strikeforce to invade America because they were printing too many Bibles or something.

I'd love to watch that one, haha!

Although I have to say, being scandinavian (🇸🇪) as well, the show had me thinking better about the life in Ukraine 2014, Iraq 2003 or Afghanistan 2001. Let's all refuse violence, and end war.
Yes. There are a lot of rational explanations for why you'd break security protocols, there is no good reason to come into work wearing a wire. Would you rather have to explain a login to IT security, or explain the pinhole camera taped to your chest - after a newly instituted random wanding takes place?
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I think Bing's maps are the best for looking at multiple countries in a region, since it seems to better at choosing which detail to drop or keep, and it does a better job stitching photography so that the imagery isn't as obviously from different days or years. The "bird's eye" view is also good for getting an overview of a town you are visiting. I've never used it for directions, but I don't know it's bad for that purpose either.
Sorry, but that battle was lost when we first came down from the trees. All situations where people live in society involve some amount of control over their behavior; that's more or less what society is, a set of things you must and mustn't do, because you're not the only person in the world.
I disagree. People should be allowed to express any opinion, thought, or view they might have, yes, but it's not always the job of someone telling them they're wrong to tell them why they're wrong. The same way every smoker knows that smoking is bad for them, every American racist at this point knows their views are in opposition to the norm and that it is in fact their job to defend them.

Censorship needs a power structure to exist. A person choosing independently that they don't care for something isn't censorship, no matter how many people do it independently in a short period of time. What I find problematic is not "censorship," but close-minded attitudes where no matter what you're free to say others aren't listening. Them choosing not to listen is not the same as my restriction from presenting the idea, though.
Really? I don't see a lot of people running Windows 95 or Windows NT.

The lesson Microsoft should have learned is that if they come out with a genuinely-improved version of Windows, the user base will adopt it in good time without being herded like sheep.
Hi Godel -

I’m Noah Kunin, the Infrastructure Director at 18F/GSA.

While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) owns the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) policy and controls (https://www.dhs.gov/trusted-internet-connections) we’ve been working hard with DHS teams to clarify and improve implementation guidance.

We hear you - loud and clear - and understand there’s a lot of frustration.

Check out our updates with one of our pilot partners, Amazon Web Services:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikm5XsUuWR4&t=10m11s

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/fedramp-trusted-in...

Also please sign up for updates to our blog - hopefully you’ll see more news on this soon, but feel free to contact us directly as well.

https://18f.gsa.gov/blog/
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Ive seen my fair share of incompetence and apathy in sysadmin land, but it annoys me so many prople jump straight to that, when it is often management that ties hands and forces sysadmins into those positions.

IT is seen as such a money sink, that true and proper workload and therefore workforce requirments are almost never understood, much less met, so you end up with a one man miracle show sysadmin working a 40k job, always on call, who literally doesn't have the time to be proactive. If he or she brings it up with management, their work is often criticized and the budget is whined about and they are lucky to get a teir 1 helper (maybe only part time too!).

Companies dont like spending money when they don't have to, and admins are on a whole spectacularly failing to emphasize the risks being introduced to the business because of it, all while generally being overworked and paid crappily and often overtime exempt.

I ought to know, I helped start up an IT consultancy and I'd say 3/4 of the clients were picking up after a half incompetent, half apathetic admin... but often it was just because at the end of the day, the admins arent getting payed enough to care that much. So something breaks, costs $money in downtime, forces the C levels to call consultants, and end up spending more than if they had just hired a few extra good people in the first place.

So, you arent wrong, but lets not lose sight of the fact that at the end of the day it's managements job to ensure the admins are given the tools they need to succeed, and to check competence levels with metrics you font have to be an admin to understand.

They arent though, so thats why I think sysadmins ought to revolt, kick back with a scotch, and watch the world burn.
> "We can only crystal ball so much, especially when the protagonist is not bound by facts or the truth."

It is fascinating to read internal debates and conversations happening at NSA. A good number those people publicly claim Snowden is lying and fabricating facts.

I imagine they have to all think at some superficial level that he is a terrible person, liar, criminal, traitor etc. If they question or doubt that they face their cognitive dissonance -- maybe their workplace is the immoral agency here, maybe they are lying and skirting the law. That is a hard pill to swallow I think. It is easier to just keep lying to yourself overall.
A team the size of Google.
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps he does have a copy, and is letting the NSA prove to the world that it will lie if it thinks it can get away with it before releasing them.
Blind chess sounds like an extremely difficult game. I really want to play it.

Seems as though it's most easily played as a computer game.
Racket does it so well! I presume Clojure can't, because it is for good and bad tied to the JVM platform, and has to be bothered with classpaths, classes & methods and what I call "the java mindset" of crazy XML-heavy mazes.
If you funded this with taxes (presumably on the wealthy) wouldn't you likewise see a deflationary affect on luxury goods?
Typically plane crashes are very rare events. Even more rare are crashes from crusing altitude over water. MH370 doesn't change that.

So if the proposal is to add new equipment to every aircraft in service, that is compared to the very rare cost of having to recover a data recorder, and the even more rare cost of having to recover it from underwater. Airlines don't see that as an economic tradeoff that makes sense.
I may still be too young at 25, but I can't think of a single time in my life where the threat of eventual death was a motivator of any kind. maybe as I get older it'll come, but only because it'll be just over the horizon. If I lived 800 years instead of 80, it might motivate me for the last 30 years, but that still gives me an extra 690 years of being motivated by other factors (happiness, comfort, pride, love, whatever floats your boat).
That's a great point. According to the 2nd episode of the 3rd season of Startup (https://gimletmedia.com/episode/season-3-episode-2/) the twitch guys got rich, bought a big house and dedicate one floor to helping/mentoring startups. You could say they just in it for the money (get rich off another startup) but I suspect they're really enjoying themselves.
My experience has all been with teams and companies < 15 people, and he seemed unhappy about that.

The startup I worked on had 12 people at its height (before it was bought by a large tech company), and I was the first employee hire so I was in a position of some leadership.

He kept asking me strange questions that presupposed I knew how to negotiate with large entities like government agencies... as a developer.

That interview - plus the other two "groundhog day" interviews - were the strangest interview process I've ever experienced.
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Unfollowing is just as easy as following. If somebody chooses to follow an account that ultimately posts too many ads then they can quickly and painlessly unfollow.

The grey area is sponsored content that doesn't identify itself as such and is incredibly common on celebrity twitter/IG accounts. As long as the relationship is clearly identified (and not with an #ad hashtag buried in a pile of other hashtags) I think it's ok.
I can't give a comprehensive answer as to how we hire, but I can offer my personal experience: I was able to finish my last year of part-time law school when I started at 18F. I was working full time, and everyone was very respectful about having a life outside of work.

In the shorter term, do check out https://micropurchase.18f.gov. It's where we post very short term contract opportunities ($3,500 or less, and tasks typically take up to a week). I also happen to be a dev on this project, so feel free to reach out here or at micropurchase@gsa.gov if you have any questions.
The problem of course with that argument is that people also need to move into higher-cost areas in order to find jobs for certain industries. If there was no regional adjustment that encourages individuals to stay put. Poor people congregate in low-cost areas with low job opportunities.

A CoL adjustment for San Francisco isn't the problem, but rather the fact that San Francisco costs so much to begin with.
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Cloud.gov is a PaaS based on Cloud Foundry. The idea is that it can run on pretty much any IaaS provider (as long as the Cloud Foundry plugins are written), certainly not limited to AWS.
My mom quite accidentally turned a hobby into a small business by participating in instagram circles for homemade cheese, pottery and artisinal yarn. Posting her own stuff she built a following, people started inquiring about how to buy. She would announce her presence in an upcoming craft sale, but by the time the sale started everything she had to sell was reserved on instagram. Now most of what she makes goes straight to artsy shops in funky shopping districts.

My sister is a tattoo artist, she too has engendered quite the instagram following posting her work, which draws clients into the shop.

People participating in these sorts of communities enjoy the fact that nobody's clubbing them over the head with a 'buy' button, and because of that the level of engagement is much higher than it is on a site like Etsy, for instance.

Instagrammers follow somebody for a few weeks or months, and when they're ready to buy, they make an inquiry, and by that point they're willing to go to any length to get their hands on the product. It's the diametric opposite of impulse buying. The ongoing and intimate narrative is essential to cultivating this, and the absence of a buy button makes it a very inviting place for the types who are into that sort of thing.
Good points about critical mass and safety. The general traffic situation in Beijing is more chaotic than in London, but I would feel less safe on a scooter in London.

Re: charging:

- some people charge them at work, by using long extension cables

- lithium batteries are getting more popular, and this cuts the weight by more than 50%

- yes, when I used to ride an electric scooter (a vespa-style one, not the type in your pic) I would lug my battery up and down 5 flights of stairs, not just for charging, but also because the lithium battery is worth more than bike
We are using AWS GovCloud for our base IaaS layer, but we run a PaaS layer on top based on Cloud Foundry... That's the actual cloud.gov service being provided, the location on AWS GovCloud is just an implementation detail.
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I've actually started working with some Code for America folks here in my community - independently of CfA - on some city open data projects. They're awesome. :-)
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Governments should just bill the manufacturer and the airline for the costs of the search and rescue/recovery operation. Then the manufacturers, airlines, and their insurers could work out what the cost/benefit equation is.
> I can fetch a previous version of the program and use it that way forever

Unless it is a web browser because modern frontend developers tend to make their web apps compatible only with the latest version of a browser they use on their Mac.
There are certainly patterns. Try this:

Draw lines from the origin with slopes 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...

A number, y=n, is prime if no line intersects y=n at an integer other than n.

You can also start out with a line of points, then repeatedly place a new line of points, translated up one unit and right one unit from the start of the last line and increase the distance between each point by one from the last line. [There are many other simple constructions and many repeating sub-units with definite patterns.]

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The primes are the columns with only two filled points.

http://divisorplot.com records more patterns.

I currently have a demo [0] up that lets you explore these drawings in projective spaces. [Note that the default scene is showing only a scaled portion of the underlying data.]

[0] http://blakelapierre.github.io/jsxbox/
From what I understand, they often have no idea what services cost. This is different than not having an internal price. And there shouldn't be external factors that prevent them from measuring it.

Or are you saying that they are contractually bound to avoid tracking costs?
Have a hearty thanks and an upvote for your $0.02, I had not thought of the other whistleblowers as a viable means of figuring this out.
My preferred approach for health insurance is to eliminate all of the regulations about what insurance plans must cover, and any other rules that prevent high-deductible catastrophic insurance from being available on the market. You could then buy a very cheap plan that covers everything once expenses exceed, say, 20k, and be responsible for everything before that out of your pocket. Then, unlike now, people would actually factor in cost into their decisions about which doctors and hospitals to visit, which would hopefully drive down wasteful spending.

The other thing I'd support is removing medical licensure from the law. People would still be free to visit only AMA-approved physicians, but there's no reason to give that guild a monopoly on providing health care. The artificial caps on medical school seats, imposed by the AMA, is one of the biggest reasons for the absurd cost of medical care in the US.

>I don't know what the solution is here but if in this hypothetical reality, the garden state didn't supplement but California did then I'd move to California in a heartbeat. I am sure I'd be broke even with any supplement in San Diego but at least I'll be broke in San Diego.

Sure, and when the people of California realize that they're attracting all of the deadbeats from around the country, they'd be forced to adjust.
What are the main not-working-smoothly problems you're seeing with Vector Web/Android out of interest? Matrix Console is very much a raw dev-focused app on top of the SDKs, but at this point in its life Vector should be relatively polished...

ejabberd obviously is much more mature than synapse, but i'd be interested to know where synapse had problems getting off the ground - it's been a few years since I've run ejabberd, but it wasn't particularly fun at the time, and I'd hope that synapse can do better! :)
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The reason the debt metaphor is used for technical debt is that debt isn't necessarily a bad thing - it just something to understand and manage.

Most people, when they buy a house, go into debt (e.g.: a mortgage) for the initial purchase - without that debt, they would never be able to save up the money needed to buy that house.

A startup seems similar - the first goal of a startup should be to show traction and market fit before running out of runway - and if building up technical debt lets them achieve that more quickly, then that is the right thing to do. This first phase seems to be where the 10x programming would shine.
Oh well, I guess not, then. :-)
it's a goal to use the advertised IP blocks of cloud providers where possible, with whois simply as a fallback.

Will happily accept patches for other providers.
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No, I was not sarcastic. Many users are happy with being unable to run unsigned apps or listen to pirated music if it makes their devices secure.
Just checked healthsherpa plan prices for a 64-year-old, and it came to almost $900/mo with a $5000 deductible. Maybe it's possible to radically reduce healthcare costs, but we should probably do that first before eliminating Medicare.
Is it just me, or is that video really bad at demoing the result?

It seems like pressing the buttons does nothing from the video?
I can support letting the bottom fall out like this provided we had full single payer coverage for everyone. Any additional coverage can then be whatever you want with the only protection from law being protection from false advertising.

I can also support removing the ama-fia's control on licenses but I'm afraid we'll just replace it with something similar when it comes to which providers are eligible to reimbursements from the new single payer healthcare system.