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I enjoy reading this kind of article about lousy security, because I say to myself "Wow, that was lousy!" and laugh. BUT I still don't know how I could avoid this. I genuinely ask: could anyone share with me the "2016 Guide of the best pratices for securing an API/ a web app"?
embeded Racket in R? Though I find a domain specific language like R is just an awesome tool for its need.

Racket project for me are one's that simplify one sub-domain and do that well.

My idea was a scrapping and munging language in Racket. One that could be used with OpenRefine and spit out R code.
I wonder if this is where Pony lang will fit in? It is an OO actor-model new language that is supposed to be real fast, and yet have all of the positives of Erlang. I believe it is currently duplicating the OTP features as well if I understand it correctly [1].

You don't send a 'poison pill' to kill off actors like in Erlang's more manual management. It is automatic in Pony.

[1] http://www.ponylang.org/
I think it makes more sense to put the D/A and amp in the headphones. If you want a particular quality level of sound, you need a particular quality level D/A, amp, and transducer. If these are all in the headphones then you choose your quality level by choosing your headphones. If you use your headphones with more than one device you get your chosen quality level on all of those devices.

With the D/A and amp in the device then your quality level can vary from device to device depending on the D/A and amp quality of those devices. If you want higher quality you not only need to get high quality headphones, you also have to get high quality devices.

Since device makers are going to tend to put their best D/As and amps on their higher end devices those who want higher audio quality will have to be higher end devices even if they don't need most of the features those higher end devices offer.

With the D/A and amp in the headphones they can buy phones and tablets and such that just do what they need and no more, which should save them some money (money which can go toward one set of headphones with a top notch D/A and amp).
No, it is your duty to work to get it changed. I imagine there are a number of industrial companies that feel workplace safety laws and laws banning the dumping of waste in waterways to be stupid, would you be ok if they ignored those?
I personally found clojure to be the most enticing lisp, and the only one I've gotten off the ground with. Enticing because it does web apps so well, which makes it practical (in my mind) and gives that sense of accomplishment.

That said, there are some crazy advanced things you can do in lisps, and I'm sure I've only scratched the surface. But that scratch was deep enough to build things that are useful.

Another interesting thing is that some people's clojure code is very readable and understandable to me, like James Reeves' (weavejester) code. Other people's code is very difficult for me, David Nolen's for example (swannodette). Not saying one is better than the others, more of having a familiar way tackling a problem in code I suspect.

I can't say I ever had an A HA! moment with lisp like some famous people have described, but I can say that I am a better programmer for having gone down that road.

I didn't realize it had had any positive impact on my understanding until recently when I decided to give Haskell another try. Lo and behold, I am actually understanding it now (via learn you a haskell), and I'm struggling to understand what was so hard about it before. I can't say exactly what changed, but something did.

I can't say it was because I specifically learned a lisp, it might have been just as true if I had learned OCaml or some other language. But I am suspicious that it was because it was a lisp.

I can say this, I have had an A HA! moment with Haskell. It was more of a Holy Sh*t moment for me actually. And that was when I got to the quicksort example in Learn You a Haskell. I was stunned.
That's not my question. My question is, why is it the fundamental theorem of arithmetic?
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From yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951096
I think they would need free electrons as the result of a chemical reaction, not just a voltage? For an organism to make use of a high voltage, it would need to physically connect to a lower voltage and allow current to flow, which is not possible for a microorganism that small given that the high voltage lines are isolated by several feet.

Cool concept for a GMO electro-snake though.
Only if all life converges on having dna. If there are multiple origins of life that survive there would probably be multiple different self replicating molecules.
And yet, AirBnB is profiting off those people breaking the law.
I can say with confidence that you're wrong about a point on a non-skidding wheel moving backwards. I can't read your book though, it says that the page is unavailable.

Consider the wheel in the frame of the train. The train moves at velocity v relative to the ground. So the bottom of the wheel moves with velocity v backwards in the frame of the train. The top moves velocity v forward in that frame. All other points move at the same speed but in directions that aren't perfectly horizontal so move at a slower horizontal speed. But for a point to move backwards relative to the ground it must move at a horizontal speed greater than v in the frame of the train. So there is no such point.
I might not even be against this practice because if it is truly countering bad ideas, then it could be effective. Bad ideas can spread fast and influence people in subtle and profound ways. But obviously they should be countered in organic ways by moderates or skeptics or Neil deGrasse Tysons- in their countries.

What I don't understand is how the US military can say, oh this is illegal (and thus unethical) to do in the US to Americans, but foreigners are exempt, so let's create a world of false personas and disinformation for them.

The only argument for using tactics like this and others, like spying on people, is in a time of temporary war.

We Americans are a nation built on the acknowledgement of natural rights and to deny that all humans have these rights against any oppressive government, is absurd and wrong.

Endless ambiguous and 'total war' is more dangerous than radicals posting on a message board or even the threat of terrorism. The existential risk to human freedom is far greater when we have an infinite budget military mandated with doing unjust and immoral things forevermore with no sense of what made America great or what will eventually make the whole world great; natural rights and secular governments.
How about autonomous multi-rotor? There's no assumption regarding the payload then.
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5th, the slaves could've tried maybe, freeing themselves? Weird that it took a white man to come along and do it for them..
- The #Opportunities is staggering.

People are quite comfortable living in places (yes, rent is shit) where there are multiple opportunities so that when one doesn't work out, they can move to the next without uprooting their family/social system. Silicon Valley allows for that in a 30-40 mile radius.

- Number of likeminded folks as @dhogan pointed out. The sheer volume of meet ups, etc. is incredible.

So many startups, so many cutting edge tech companies and a lot of driven folks. You can bounce around as much as you like in the valley. Companies tend to home themselves here, since there is an easier talent pool to tap into. I am not saying other places don't have that, but the volume of such folks + opportunities is very high!
Does anyone know if California still has ~40 active coal-powered electricity plants? I think they were around 500 megawatts each IIRC.
Has a security engineer ever reviewed anything that had good security?
The highest profile US headline on the BBC front page right now is "US warned over high poverty by IMF", so I don't think they have a problem being critical.
You can say the same thing about almost any other kind of comparison that's not strictly numeric.

That's an argument against making similar comparisons in other domains, too; you're supporting my claim, not contradicting it. People absolutely do make these comparisons, but I wouldn't point to what people happen to do as evidence that any random one of those things makes any sense.

I get it; we like these comparisons. They're fun. They're also -- at best -- misleading.
How much money are you willing to lay down, at what odds?
Like many words, causality means different things in different contexts. It's a bug of language that's not worth getting irked about IMO.

Causality within the context of scientific research almost always means variable precedence and dependency. Did observation A precede observation B? If I change A, how and when will B change? Or vice versa?

That's what scientists are looking at when they study whether something is "causal." They're not trying to figure out if inductive reasoning can discover truth. They just provisionally assume it can and go from there.
I think this is a valid concern, that it will not be implemented. I just wanted to get an idea of where the initial statement was coming from.

I guess I'm a little more idealistic in that I think it's too expensive to put DACs in earbuds shipped by phones, and trying to switch both (port + expensive earbuds) at the same time may be too much. I'm hopeful this means we'll see initial implementations of analog support on the first phones that make this switch, and thus set the expectations.

Of course, I'm usually proven wrong about such things :)
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Where should I host my SaaS if I want a mix of dedicated servers (databases?) and VPS'es (web servers)? What if someone DDoS'es me? Providers like DigitalOcean will just kick you out if that happens.
The title is missing the last word, "unless."

Rather an important word too.
This is the kind of things that Apple likes to do which is why I don't buy Apple Products...
The top quintile had 51.2% of aggregate income in 2014, or 2.56 times their share. But things rapidly get worse as you go up from there: the top 5% alone had 21.9% of aggregate income in 2014, or 4.38 times their share. My source for the top 10% having 49.9% of aggregate income in 2014 was Figure 9 of Saez, Emmanuel. "Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States", on page 9 of the PDF linked below.

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2014.pdf
In response to the idea of an all-male speaker lineup, you said:

> If they are the subject matter experts, then yes, I would prefer they are all present, and none of them be excluded because we are searching for faux diversity.

I assumed that hypothetical was meant to be plausible, because otherwise what's the point? So yes, you're strongly implying that an all-male lineup is likely to be because of qualifications, and that including women would make it worse.

I stand by my "no reason." The StackOverflow survey is obviously flawed (women often get treated badly online, so tend to be discouraged from participating in communities like SO) and if 20% of relevant degrees go to women, why do conferences typically have far less than 20% women?
This is generally the philosophical tradition: you present ideas, wholly and completely, as an explanation or a solution to a problem. You do not pre-suppose disagreements for your opponents (this will almost certainly end up being a straw man, if you let them make their own arguments they will make them more favorably than you could. It is a sign of respect). You express your idea as a firm, unyielding truth and wait until it is appropriately refuted, then reassess.
I know I'm going up against a brilliant mathematician and Fields medalist here, but I find this article to be unenlightening. It seems that Gowers has glossed over something about the integers that's built incredibly deeply into our intuition about them when he talks about Z[sqrt(-5)]:

> These numbers have various properties in common with the integers: you can add them and multiply them, there are identities for both addition and multiplication, and every number has an additive inverse. And as with integers, if you divide one by another, you don’t always get a third, so the notion of divisibility makes sense too. That means that we could if we wanted try to define a notion of a “prime” number of the form a+b\sqrt{-5}.

He skipped over the fact that the positive integers are well-ordered by < (and in fact < also respects the arithmetic operations on the positive integers as well). I just can't take the comparison seriously without this being explicitly discussed, because the ordering of the integers is incredibly fundamental to human intuition about them.
Is it still problematic to issue lots of certs for lots of subdomains? I mean, still no wildcard certs and crazy rate limits, that disallow issuing 1000s of certs per day for user-generated subdomains?
Yes, it's awful. It's the opposite of that; it's removing general abstractions that Scala got right and replacing them with zillions of special cases.

Ceylon is what you should be looking at.
Does this mean that all the NSWhatever symbols are visible to anyone with a debugger or readelf or whatnot?
I couldn't find any info on flight times. I'm guessing anything up to 15 minutes?
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Youtube is a monopoly in a way Google is a monopoly. Just like how there's Bing and DuckDuckGo but most people use Google, most people use Youtube although some do use sites like vimeo. If you think it's so easy to build a site that competes with Google or Youtube you should go ahead and build one and overtake them. After all, nowadays everything is open sourced, you can even build your own search engine from scratch overnight.
That article does not seem much better. They say the "code" has been exposed. I assume they mean machine code, not source code, but they don't specify. "Code" generally means source which is confusing.

They speculate that Apple is opening up the kernel so people can report bugs, but if that was the case they would release the source, which they have not (although the Mac kernel is FOSS and the two share large amounts of code: http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/).
No, Chomsky's problem with statistical models is that you can't learn much about the underlying system from them, and so it isn't science, which has as a fundamental aim to understand the world.

Statistical models can be useful but they generally aren't meaningful to scientific progress.
Not an expert but it seems neat that their model apparently explains many known properties of the phenomenon.
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Would you feel comfortable with end-to-end encryption via an open, documented, free protocol? This is literally my raison d'être as a company, so I'd be interested to hear your comfort level.

What I've got is a platform that 1.) makes it substantially easier for IoT developers to get their devices to market and 2.} enforces end-to-end encryption and affirmative consensual sharing. It works by running as a background service on both the IoT device and on any connecting computers. In a similar vein to IPFS, the service magically switches between local and nonlocal networks dynamically, so it doesn't matter if your interent connection goes out; as long as you have power (and a local server set up, but I'd like to add P2P capability over LAN in the near future) you're good to go.

I realize this isn't the whole device you want, but is that a starting point you'd be interested in?
So would you mind sharing it?
Working on the next major version Scala (3.0) != "looses interest" in Scala.
There is no value in that. If you have a unique perspecitve, you MUST be outspoken and opinionated. Being quirky also helps. Otherwise, no one gets to hear about your unique perspecitve.
> Coals CO2 might even be spun into carbon tubes one day

Link? I'm also very curious what can be done with after carbon sequestration if you have any links for that…
It's a popular extension language for molecular visualization applications.
This is an excellent point. It also illustrates how a useful abstraction at one level can hinder reasoning at another.
That was exactly my point. Totally lost on HN. Every time we have, "India did x in tech", we get, "but they don't have toilets".
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat reviewing talk proposals for PDP-6-Con.

"What are you doing?" asked Minsky.

"I am training a randomly wired neural net to review talk submissions," Sussman replied.

"Why is the net wired randomly?" asked Minsky.

"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of who should present," Sussman said.

Minsky then shut his eyes.

"Why do you close your eyes?" Sussman asked his teacher.

"So that the room will be empty."

At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
It's also not like helicopters or planes typically hover over a park.
Have a link?
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> Do you really see a 10x performance/cost improvement right around the corner?

I see batteries under $100/kWh in <5 years.
I know, it's refreshing to see some honest self-awareness on the web, especially nowadays. Good luck with your coding!
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Doom articles mean market debasement is happening.

If you have the ability to invest, this is a good time to do so. you're about to see massive increases in valuation.
Over all of history, there is no accounting for what "the mainstream" decides to believe and do. Many people (wrongly) think that "Darwinian processes" optimize, but any biologist will point out that they only "tend to fit to the environment". So if your environment is weak or uninteresting ...

This also obtains for "thinking" and it took a long time for humans to even imagine thinking processes that could be stronger than cultural ones.

We've only had them for a few hundred years (with a few interesting blips in the past), and they are most definitely not "mainstream".

Good ideas usually take a while to have and to develop -- so the when the mainstream has a big enough disaster to make it think about change rather than more epicycles, it will still not allocate enough time for a really good change.

At Parc, the inventions that made it out pretty unscathed were the ones for which there was really no alternative and/or no one was already doing: Ethernet, GUI, parts of the Internet, Laser Printer, etc.

The programming ideas on the other hand were -- I'll claim -- quite a bit better, but (a) most people thought they already knew how to program and (b) Intel, Motorola thought they already knew how to design CPUs, and were not interested in making the 16 bit microcoded processors that would allow the much higher level languages at Parc to run well in the 80s.
Please give more info where you're located, and by whom you're employed, and if you're local or remote.

Ex: living in NL and getting WA level remote salary 150K+ (you get the point).
mjg59 is a copyright holder for Linux though. Surely he of all people should be actually lawyering up rather than just telling people not to use this device on the internet.
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> No, Chomsky's problem with statistical models is that you can't learn much about the underlying system from them, and so it isn't science, which has as a fundamental aim to understand the world.

Science has the fundamental aim to make testable predictive models of the world; any "understanding" other than that represented by a testable predictive model is irrelevant to science, except insofar as it might provide intuition on which to found hypotheses of better predictive models.

Statistical models, to the extent that they are testable and predictive, are exactly the kind of thing that science is about.
So fast forward 10+ years, what does this look like?

Can I get a drone Uber to pick me up? Where exactly? Are there helipads everywhere there use to be a bus stop?

For private owners, do they build a landing area in their backyard or rooftop? Or do you drive out to the airport?

Does the paramedic-flying-themselves-to-the-accident know where to land the drone with 18 chopping blades (for stability and redundancy)?
My take-away: Work like this is somewhat akin to attempting to determine the specification of Intercal through reverse engineering given a working program and a compiler.
Not to mention spent nuclear fuel will soon be "renewable" in the future in terms of being used again to produce more energy where as it was once considered waste.
You mean like this:

"Second layer of information in DNA confirmed"

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-layer-dna.html
Don't get me wrong... I don't agree with the systems in place. Winner takes all? Super delegates? Two party system? All have parts ripe for abuse...

Trump and Bern should, by all reasonable definitions, be on "other" platforms. Trump is, if anything, independent... Bern is much further left than the normal "Democrat"... But anything outside of these two "buckets" has no chance.

90% of people don't fall fully into either of these buckets. These buckets drive "us vs them" partisanship that's only gotten worse and worse in recent years. Don't agree with the GOP 100%? RHINO (Commie! Socialist! etc)! Don't follow DNC? DINO (and Racist/Bigot/Islamaphobe/etc)

I'm not sure how exactly I would change it... but there needs to be more than two parties.

I sure as shit know I don't fall fully into either camp although I'm definitely more right than left.
Guys, this isn't about Elasticity Curves. This is about Just Prices [0]. In tight-knit communities, it was evolutionarily advantageous for customers to throw a hissy fit if a vendor hiked their prices. It's a Game Theory thing that relies on information asymmetry.

[0] http://daviddfriedman.com/Academic/econ_and_evol_psych/econo...
I was a music major so I totally thought this was about something else.
Oh, now I'll have to put an antenna and oscilloscope near a cheap power supply to see that.

I just can not imagine how it can put much power in any frequency other than the <150 kHz ones, that aren't really that valuable.
I want a simple device like this:

1. It plugs into the wall

2. You can plug an appliance of some sort into it

3. The device has a USB interface

4. The device has a WiFi interface

5. When I plug in the device with the USB interface, it looks like a serial device

6. The device has a very simple protocol that you can use
to set it up, over the serial interface

7. You can optionally have the device join a WiFi network, and you can choose to enable a simple REST web service

8. Whether you choose USB or Wifi, the device only does 3 things:

a. Tell you whether it is supplying power to the appliance

b. Supply power to the appliance, if not already doing so

c. Stop supplying power to the appliance, if not already doing so

edit:formatting
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For general news, I'm a fan of a paper subscription to The Economist. There is little general news where a week between issues makes a difference, but it does make a difference in reporting.
One of the things that originally attracted me to biology was the idea that it was like reverse engineering a computer system with no manual.

After a while that got old.
The goal is reduce the size of the phone that's lovingly displayed on the wood and glass table at your local Apple store next to a tasteful sign informing you how much of your money they want. If it requires you to also purchase and carry a bag of crap tethered to it like a 1990s bag phone, they're pretty much fine with that.