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> At this point, I'd probably rather work with a bunch of jerks who are open with their biases than a bunch of 'office friendly' people who are only friendly because it serves them.

That-guy-who-shouldn't-be-mentioned-on-HN would say that this is us tearing one-another down by refusing to get good at politics as a class, making us subservient to a management class that doesn't really do much well beyond being really good at playing politics. "Meritocracy" is only possible if the smartest people are willing to build and use political capital. Control won't be given freely from without.
I claim you are simply wrong.

The proportion of state defendants who receive trials has also become very small and while the Times article primarily referenced Federal jury trials, it also referred trials in general and plea bargaining has made trials an exception rather than a rule at all levels.

See the following article:

"Ninety-seven percent of federal criminal prosecutions are resolved by plea bargain. In state courts the numbers are comparable."

http://thecrimereport.org/2014/01/07/2014-01-how-plea-bargai...
You can still buy buckets/toolboxes of assorted Meccano. They come with plans for things which you can happily ignore.

https://www.amazon.com/Meccano-Junior-100-Piece-Bucket/dp/B0...

https://www.amazon.com/Meccano-20070926-Junior-Bucket-150-Pi...

https://www.amazon.com/Erector-Advanced-Toolbox-Construction...

https://www.amazon.com/Meccano-6024795-Meccano-Erector-Advan...

(Results of a quick Amazon search. I'm sure there are more.)
> In other words if you cannot see the error in your specification what makes you think you should be implementing it?

Since we're talking about proving correctness, nobody can prove they didn't miss an error - either in the specification or implementation. Even wikipedia provides a trivial case of that in the article on TLA+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA%2B#Liveness

Would you never miss the fact that you didn't specify that the clock must tick? Would you never miss an error like that in a system orders of magniture more complicated?

So by extension - if you cannot ensure you see an error in your specifications, what makes you think you should write them? I'm not saying the specification will be incorrect - you can check that of course. I'm saying it can be incomplete.

It's the same as a test. You write more of them, you catch more bugs. You specify more, you verify more. In either one you can't prove you covered all the cases you implicitly meant to.

Honestly, at this point, I'd rather take an implementation that's battle-tested by a large company for months than a verified implementation which hasn't been used by anyone apart from the authors in their lab. (and yeah, that may not be a popular view with some people :) )
IMHO, Traveling Salesman was awful enough to poison a really interesting and underexplored cinematic well. :( It left me wanting both my mental and IP bandwidth back.

All I could think about was how great it would be if someone like Shane Carruth (Primer, Upstream Color) had written/directed it instead.
The impact of that pollution is felt much wider, even primarily, by those outside of the countries producing the pollution.

See: Chernobyl fallout carried west on the wind across Europe, and sea-level rises caused by human-accelerated global warming disproportionately impacting poor island nations not responsible for said global warming.

There are of course still very local, direct harms from pollution, but the most severe, long-term effects eventuate globally.
we did adopt HTTPS :p pls try https://www.idope.se
I found it amusing and edifying to replace "Chinese" with "American" in all your statements and see if it still applies.
Yeah, they really messed things up. I guess Facebook has decided they don't need outside developers anymore.
There was once a man called John Titor, who turned up on bulletin boards claiming to be a time traveller. He presented elaborate documentation to back his case, including photographs of his time machine, his uniform, detailed operations manual and tools for maintaining the machine. He even showed light bending around the singularity used to power the machine. He even gave a convincing explanation of how the machine worked. He fooled a lot of people, but most people never heard of him and most of those who did believed it was a hoax.

Convincing a bunch of people you can factor large numbers isn't that hard. And there have been many claimants. But there are security researchers out there that publish lists of numbers to factor of various sizes, including ones (only) they know the factors of, and ones no one knows the factors of.

However, consider what happens if you convince a small number of people you really did it. Most people will either disbelieve it until their bank accounts are emptied, or they will believe it to be no more important than any other security breach.

There are three main groups of people who would understand what it meant. The first are mathematicians who would want to understand the factoring method to push forward their research. The second are Governments and large corporations who depend on factoring for security. The third group are hackers who would want to use it to steal secrets and money.

The second and third group probably wouldn't have your best interests at heart. And many of the first group are working for the second group. So pretty much you should boast about it on conspiracy forums and the like and tell people who don't necessarily understand your accomplishment. At least you'll get a Wikipedia page and people will remember you after you disappear.
Unless they don't believe you. Unless someone wants vengeance. Unless someone wants to make an example.
I cringe every time I see begs the question in its modern usage. Please don't take this as a personal attack. Just sayin'.
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I always wondered why these are laid out in a grid, and not hexagonally, which is optimal for circle packing. You could fit more in that way.
Are you offended that you got that extra words for free? I enjoyed every page -- should Norman have published two versions of the book?
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But there are techniques like Rejection Therapy: processes for getting exactly that kind of practice in an efficient manner, that you can fall back on to feel more confident about each interaction (because you only have one goal, and you can meet it early on.)

I also haven't read Carnegie (I really need to get to it), but I would expect it to be full of things like that, rather than being a treatise on abstract evolutionary sociology.
I've read lots of comments from people bewildered that Hello Games is continuing to add features and work on bugs after the game has gone gold. Gold is the 1.0 release: they got the game to a state where there were no showstoppers, and now they're continuing to add value to the game, as well as address issues that only become obvious when large numbers of naive users (and their myriad hardware specifications) encounter a product.
Clever!

Here's one way I can think of to fix it without just taking out the feature or trying to hide its results: redefine "visited" from being "visited ever, from anywhere" to "visited from here". For instance, if I visited a wikipedia article on my own, and it appeared on hacker news, it wouldn't appear as "visited". However, if I clicked on it from hacker news, next time I load hacker news the browser would mark it as visited. I think that would keep all the useful properties of visited, without leaking information.
Here are some actual numbers:

The Conference Board Total Economic Database May 2016 release, table "Labor productivity per hour worked in 1990 US$ (converted at Geary Khamis PPPs)" For 2015, France 37, USA 40. [1]

Wikipedia, List of countries by GDP (PPP) per hour worked, methodology appears different than previous citation. France 59.24, USA 67.32. [2]

OECD, GDP per hour worked, 2014. France 60.3, USA 62.4. [3]

In each case the data seems to show that workers in the US are more productive per hour worked than those in France.

[1] https://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/index....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

[3] https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=PDB_LV
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Sorry, I am not an expert. I was under the impression that RSA is still widely in use today, so the ramifications would be quite devastating.
Did you read the article? It explains how browsers mitigated the :visited pseudo-class issue, then how he bypassed that mitigation using mix-blend-mode. As presented, mix-blend-mode absolutely is to blame for being able to exploit it.

He also explains how this is different than the captcha POF that you linked because the captcha requires user interaction for each URL tested (something that wasn't necessary before the browsers mitigated against it). He explains how to reduce this to a single user interaction, by exploiting mix-blend-mode.

Yes, :visited is a key part of the exploit, but to say it's just that isn't accurate.
I was pretty heavily involved in the reverse engineering process (although more the management side as opposed to the RE side).

AMA?
I feel your pain, but I also don't know better way to express what I just expressed
Things are dark out here on the economic periphery, that was once the economic heartland, and people are starting to despair about it.
They're the NSA, they don't do that sort of thing
Twitter never appealed to ordinary users. It always appealed to celebrities and journalists however. Wall St mispriced its future based on the disproportionate media buzz that it received.
"Raises the question"
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And yet, this is often the lowest paid position at a startup. Most important hire. Lowest paid. Let that sink in.

People talk about how market rates are fair, and it makes sense to stick to them because you can always hire someone else. But you don't get great people in key positions by paying them less than your other employees.
This thread brings up old memories: I, too, am a ball lightning witness. It'd been so long since I'd replayed it in my mind [0] that I'd probably describe it better if I slept on it. (Slow Retrieval == AWS Glacier).

I was around eight or so, and was idle on the sidelines at a practice; American football, iirc, with an open field adjacent to the one we were scrimmaging on. It was after dark, hot and humid, with thunderstorms in the vicinity (aka, Georgia in springtime).

I don't remember if it was concomitant with a thunderclap, but I was looking around (not at the active play) and on the open field a bright, blue-white ball descended into the field maybe 75m from me, appx 75 cm in apparent diameter. When I say "into" I mean it was proximal but not tangent to the field; hovering, as it were, but only for a second. Then it raced off, but seemed to dissappear more quickly than you'd estimate based on the rate of angular velocity wrt my eye—almost as if it evaporated.

And, does anyone else seem puzzled that the observation group is almost completely comprised of young persons? I've read some other accounts of ball lightning since the Internet age, and that seems to be a common attribute. Maybe tweens just stare off into space more/lie awake sleeplessly /etc., but it sure seems strongly correlated (small sample size, admittedly).
I went through an addiction myself and I agree with you.

Emotions are not super well understood, and I think they are at the root of addiction. If you are chronically unhappy, drugs let you feel good. You start feeling better because of the drugs, and lose the ability to respond to negative emotion in a healthy way. Healthy emotional balance lets people make good choices and fix bad problems. Being chronically unhappy - perhaps as a result of unresolved mental injury - will hamper a persons ability to make good choices, just like being keep in darkness for a log time will make your eyes way too sensitive to handle normal light.

Show me someone who is addicted to drugs, and I'll show you someone who is unhappy about something other than the drugs. The addiction just makes the underlying problem worse.

If you can learn to fix the underlying problem, then fixing the addiction itself is much easier.

Once you are knee deep in drugs, your life becomes awful which gives you more reason to keep using the drugs. It's like a local minimum, or an AI that learns to manipulate it's model of the world, because that's easier than manipulating the world itself.
It's always like that. A company that wants adoption will make things all "open" and "free", and let the developers do the hard work. Once the users are there, turn off the API (or severely restrict it) to keep the users in.
> Mac used to be the same story, but now I would bet that at least 10% of indie game sales are on Mac.

One of the big things that changed was that Macs got a lot more popular and became a bigger market.

I think the main reason we don't see more games for Linux is that it's just not a big enough market (yet?)
Transparent proxies and 802.1x auth have been around for a while. Even my high school got off the "you must configure a proxy server in every application" train. IMO that is just poor IT.
"begs" as in "begs an answer to", which is the common usage. The formal logic usage of that term always seemed bizarre to me.
I use this on an otherwise free-software-only system (Parabola/Trisquel), since the only proprietary software I ever use is games, so I try as hard to isolate proprietary code as much as possible (without performance loss, which happens with VMs). This sort of goes with point "1. I want to set-up more fences when running the code I don't/can't trust;"
That's a good idea, maybe the Baazar needs a good fire. Fires help forests stay healthy returning a lot of biomass for new healthy forests to grow.

Maybe the ecosystem needs a good fire to clear out the diseased old growth?
In A Nutshell, has a nice [video] about addiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg&feature=youtu.be

Note: below is a link from reddit about their opinions from the video (maybe or maybe not they are actually a neuroscientist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3qp6sa/everything_w...
RSA is in wide use, but alternatives to RSA are also widely deployed --- bordering on ubiquitous. A total break of RSA probably wouldn't be that much more traumatic than, say, Heartbleed was.

Multiple times over the last 15 years, we've had for all intents and purposes comparable breaks --- BERserk and the original rump session Bleichenbacher e=3 breaks, for instance --- which broke TLS, to the point where you could stand up an evil server and DNS-MITM people to it, and compromise pretty much everyone running (say) Firefox. It wasn't the end of the world. The patch for "integer factorization is solvable in polynomial time" would be slightly more dramatic than the e=3 bug, but not much more: everyone would just deprecate RSA and use ECC.
me too. i finally got to ask a professor at an agricultural college that question. all i can do is give you the non-definitive answer he gave me: "there are access roads between all those circles for planting, harvest, and, maintenance. straight roads are a helluva lot easier to build. land is cheap, gravel isn't."
I honestly don't know how to feel about this. I'm really happy for Ahmed for getting the justice and recognition he deserves, and for sure, suing for $15-mil would be hard lesson for the police and the school.

But suing for that big, even after all the coverage and press he's already gotten (plus the gifts and scholarships he's been granted), surely throws this whole hullabaloo under a different light.
Whose ability to you trust, though?
indeed, it's incredible how twitter is in such disarray

and from the outside, the parallels to yahoo's strategy of the early 2000s are so striking - is it a product company or a media company?

* twitter (the product) has been so slow to improve and fix its issues (minor bugs, spam, harassment/bullying, etc)

* it seems to be going for media deals with the upcoming sports streaming

* vine and periscope started out nice but flamed out after snapchat's stories took over the world

I'm curious to know what's causing all this: are they paralyzed by bureaucracy? did internal politics fighting take over? Any throwaways want to comment?
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Yeah - sometimes I may be quick and dirty at first to see results but I'll go back and refacor - never be reluctant to revisit stuff later on.
> I never understood why people on Linux always fight to have games on the platform.

Because it is important to challenge monopolies least they abuse their position of power. With DirectX, XNA etc., Microsoft pretty much holds the monopoly as the PC gaming OS. Microsoft has made bold moves against individual freedom and privacy in Windows 10, and I'm sure more will follow.

And what better platform to compete against Windows' monopoly on PC gaming than the most popular free OS? I think that in the long run, continuing to create and display demand for PC games on Linux will only help gaming and even computing in general.
To go further: I don't really see a point to any negotiation that isn't a positive-sum game. And not for ethical reasons! To me, it doesn't matter if I or someone else gets more of a pie, because it's still just one pie and talking won't make more of it, so any time spent negotiating has opportunity costs that lower the aggregate ROI of our combined pie-slices. Negotiation spends pie. If the goal is to get the most pie, why waste time negotiating that you could be spending making pie less scarce?
For anything seriously graphical, you're wrong.
I think there may be a distinction:

Walmart could fill a hole in the ground with $3 billion dollars and burn it, and not care. [A bit of an exaggeration, as that's half their annual profit]

AOL acquired Time Warner for $182 billion.
Google doesn't have all of the Hills Plaza building. 2 Harrison St still contains a bunch of other tenants.
I'm pretty introverted by nature, and it took a concerted effort of me going to pretty much every meetup I could in the area over a period of two years to build up the social network I have in the area.

Could I do it from scratch again? Sure, and perhaps I will in a year or two, especially now that I've found a significant other that fits into my life so well.

But I really like the geography of where I live, the people where I live, the culture in close proximity to where I live, and I have job with a good dev culture that pays a respectable amount for the region and looks good on a resume, so I'm not exactly in a hurry to leave quite yet.

I'm not waiting for my friends. The pasture is pretty green where I'm at, and I'm not entirely convinced the pasture is just as green on the other side of the fence, even if it might pay more.
Oops, forgot my footnote.

[0] One theory is that the $current state of all of our experienced memories is just a copy of the last time we replayed that memory. Like bootleg tapes, N-generations old.
If every pacemaker manufacturer is required to publish source couldn't you just release it under a license that doesn't allow your competitors to use your code and wouldn't it be readily apparent if they did?
I can see them going the way of the grand jury (which has effectively been forgotten or turned in to rubber stamp so much that it doesn't even warrant a mention in this article). The grand jury was the biggest check on prosecutorial power, it prevented the state from racking up insane charges to force a plea deal.
Oh it could shape legislation: "low-functioning" children would be kicked out of school, watched closely and sent to jail for their "anti-social" tendencies, while "high-functioning" children will get expensive education, and their mishaps forgiven.
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he did a lot of weather research at his colorado springs lab, which burnt to the ground. so many of his papers and experiments were destroyed in that fire.
Not really. There is something bigger going on here.

When is the last time you saw an article on the front page of HN/Reddit with blogging advice, or making the case for developing a personal brand? Who are the top ten most up-and-coming bloggers of the last year? It's not just Twitter that's underperforming, the whole social media space right now is super fragmented and lacking in direction.
What similarity do you see? At the time of AOL-TW, both were profitable and it was the largest US merger ever.
What it clearly states is that the symlink is expected to exist, with no assurance that something sane will happen if it doesn't.
I have a gaming rig. And it runs Linux. Hopefully this makes things more clear for you. And I don't see any losing trend here. Amount of Linux games continues growing, same as Linux gaming market itself. So trend is clearly winning. But some developers need more pushing.
Of course the real secret is to be lucky enough to be one of the first employees at a company that is eventually worth more than $500 billion.
I think there is a third path that could work even better. If you think about how money really works it first goes to those the bankers deem most worthy. Tech founders, producers of fine products, schools. It flows down a cascade of people's perceptions. If you really think about it money does not necessarily go to that which benefits society as a whole, it does somewhat, but it really the majority goes to those that have the perception of being the best from the perspective of a small subset of society. Possibly a more impartial and scientific method of deciding who gets money would be more beneficial instead of the whim of cabals of bankers.
If it were Jet.com buying Wal Mart, then no you would not be alone. That it's a bricks-and-mortar behemoth buying a startup facing an uphill battle against a much larger online incumbent seems altogether more rational this time around.
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No, it's not that everyone on the sites have stories about ball lightning, or sleep paralysis, rather that everyone who comments with a story is reporting an experience with the subject of the article, ball lightning here, sleep paralysis apparently in another case. Those who don't have stories to tell about the phenomenon, or who have not experienced it, don't comment, there's nothing interesting or useful about saying "Yeah, ball lightning - that reminds me of the time when I didn't see any." Bear in mind there's a huge number of users on HN, and there were only around ten comments relating personal experiences with ball lightning. This is a tiny fraction of a percentage of the community, and similar statistics probably hold true for Reddit.
Didn't a number of major vendors (Motorola, Microsoft..) already do this and failed to find a market for it?
Because land in the US wasn't surveyed with hexagons.

In the PLSS system (used in a majority of US states), land was initially surveyed using one-mile sections as the base unit. The next division is into section quarters, a half-mile on the side.

The article has an image which I suspect illustrates differing ownership of the SW quarter:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k0CA9Q64oOI/V6iHkNVv8EI/AAAAAAAA0...

Why not in Saudi Arabia? Who knows, but they certainly show more creativity in the layout.
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I am aware of the common usage. The correct phrase is "raises the question" when used in the common usage way.

If you want to use begs as in "begs an answer to" then use "begs an answer to".
But I already have a laptop..
Just asking: how would you classify the US Recession of 2008 (esp. if the taxpayer-funded bailouts had not been done), the 1929 US Depression, and the world wealth imbalance? As for Venezuela, what role do you think the oil market price collapse and the US embargo had on their economy? Also, it is unusual that you classify Greece as socialist - one almost imagines that for you, socialism is synonymous with failure.