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Linux is amazing! From 86% of the world's smartphones to pretty much all of the top500 supercomputers to millions of Chromebooks in schools to tens of millions of critical servers to umpteen embedded uses I've never even heard of!

Linus must be considered one of the greatest project managers ever (seriously!)...results don't lie. His manner is almost identical to Leslie Groves, who managed both the construction of the Pentagon and then the Manhattan Project (greatest engineering project in history). Some tasks seem to demand people who don't need to be liked.

It is just incredible that we can use something as awesome as Linux in a free and open manner.

Thanks Linus! I don't care if you're a jerk, you deliver like a freaking boss!
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Use your professional network. Are you on LinkedIn? Reach out to former colleagues. Find out what challenges they are facing and casually mention that you do consulting on the side.
> Now if uber would bully the city into letting someone build a parking free tower of studio condos? Yeah o.k. Maybe they could exploit the lack of competition to get me to pay a lot more for transport.

If Uber gets big, expect this to happen in addition to blocking the construction of effective bike lanes.
No, if everyone can benefit, that, IMHO, is precisely why it should be contributed back to the community. If you want a selfish altruistic reason to do it, well the likely improvements that the external community will make will benefit you, including those contributions made by your competitors.

I think a culture of secrecy yields local optima. Only if you believe (and is true) your company has unique geniuses that can't benefit from other people reviewing their science will secrecy benefit you.

IMHO, only research that is useless to your competitors is research to keep secret in the sense that it is too specific to your own proprietary dependencies.
s/doesn't support your language yet/is vaporware/
There's a lot of unemployment in my country (especially for the younger).
Yeah I think barrier to entry is misunderstood as a technical attribute of a company.

Of course it's possible to build some app that tells people nearby to pick them up with metering/billing services built in.

From a business standpoint, it would almost be impossible to duplicate what they have today.
If you had to pick one which would it be? the oldest one?
Mostly right. SCIF phones are always press to talk with speakerphone disabled. Typically they are very simple POTS phones, with high roll-off lowpass filters where they exit.

Having a smart PABX which can transparently route cell calls to internal numbers is very important to making SCIFs functional.

It was interesting to read that Hillary Clinton had problems at State because her staff couldn't access their phones in the office - primarily SMS or BBM I think.
I don't disagree, but a key point is contextual relevance. "Software engineering" consists of many different discrete tasks; I want information relevant to data science when I'm looking at data, while I want information related to internal program state when I'm debugging a complex algorithm. Integrating them together with the development experience - and predicting what is most useful when - will be challenging.
The NSA and NIST have already called for the beginning of what they call "post quantum crypto".

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/nist_starts_p...
More like the last mile to stem the gap in coverage by Metro. Metro will always beat surface streets within downtown.
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Funny how this valuation thing works?! I'm really intrigued by the mechanics of how value goes up and down like this. Makes one wonder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography is one possible solution
If only we had a way of learning how to rank these papers...
There is an alternative explanation for their off seasons proposed in this April fools arxiv paper

http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.0445
I wish for icon fonts to die.

I don't mind website designers defining what fonts to use. That choice is almost always something I don't want, unless it's serif or sans-serif. I can override that choice with my own, which is better for me. Having the same font on every website increases readability and pleasure of using the web. Browsers allow for this in the user visible configuration, perhaps for this reason.

Also, security. I don't trust random fonts from the internet, to not be malicious, so I disable them all.

If I choose readability and security, use a normal browser feature to do this, by disabling website enforced font choice, the website should not break.

Icon fonts are definitely a hack. There's no fallback to anything sensible when the font can't be used. It just breaks, and the website is unusable. At least use a title attribute, so that when hovering over some random character I can see what the supposed icon I never saw stands for. Especially when used for icon only navigational controls.

And this is not even related to accessibility.
That happened to me after using one of those automatic coffee makers for several months. Then again, maybe there's more to it than Pavlov might suggest.
> People who are capable of writing side-channel attacks like this have an intuition for radio and signal processing that must be completely overwhelming during their day-to-day life.

I might not be such a wizard :-( but still I know some things about how some everyday objects such as computers/laptops (hidden features), mobile phones, WiFi etc. can be used for surveillance. Even in a country such as Germany that has seen two surveillance states in the 20th century and is thus a lot more concerned about surveillance than, say, the US (as I observe it) I'm talking about this topic till I am blue in the face.

So in other words: I don't believe you would consider such a person to be overwhelming, but instead you would consider him as flat-out annoying and paranoid.
I appreciate your apology, thank you, and I'm sorry for my confusion, just that in the context I interpreted your comment as if you were referring to me. I've read your comment on the topic too, clearly put. Again, thanks for your kind apology.
They can put out as many PR pieces as they want, but if they want to be judged on their public accomplishments, they're losing. If we're strictly judging UX, in ML areas, they're behind. Google's speech recognition is superior, Google's automated photo organization is superior, and Google Now is superior to Siri.
It's definitely possible. It was a startup, I think they only had a few thousand employees. But I think applied in the fall. So their intern program probably filled up really fast if it was full.
Why not OpenSPARC T2 ?
We should send Matthew Mcconaughey there asap.
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Unfortunately, there was a limited number of offers and I was unable to get one. The SF, SD, Boston offers don't have that limit.
> As they are still so keen on controlling encryption we can assume with good confidence that so far they have failed

It would be quite the bluff though.
After deducting the IRS per-mile amount, the 1099 double taxation drastically drops.
Well they are built off ignoring regulation, so I guess they just figure they will get away with ignoring laws against monopolies.
They have to make back all that money they gave to Dr. Dre somehow.
So no waking up when you have a cold?
> I just think it would be really neat if people would settle on one narrative or the other

Let's start with Apple's narrative. Throughout the piece, there is no direct quote mentioning any Apple innovation. The quotes are actually fairly weak:

“We’ve been seeing over the last five years a growth of this inside Apple”

“I loved [publishing at Microsoft Research] and published many papers. But when Siri came out I said this is a chance to make these deep neural networks all a reality”

“Speech is an excellent example where we applied stuff available externally to get it off the ground.”

What I get from it is that Apple has started following Google's, Microsoft's and Facebook's lead in the past five years, and has a few knowledgeable employees reusing and combining algorithms published in papers from other companies or academia.

But fundamentally, the reason they perform this PR is to start being viewed as knowledgeable in the field, so that when they release self-driving cars in 2017 or 2018, the public trusts them.

And to let us know that they're hiring: “Though today we certainly hire many machine learning people, we also look for people with the right core aptitudes and talents.” The hint is not subtle.
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Linux and Linus are amazing, but let's give our props to another humongous catalyst to the open-source, free software movement: Stallman and gcc.

RMS and his grudge against the brain drain at MIT single-handedly changed the free software movement forever.
And that required about 357 years of mathematics to be able to prove it, as well. With the recentish GI announcement, I'm hopeful factoring and discrete log will fall within the next decade or two, but it's likely going to involve a bunch of subtle perspective shifts on several different fronts combined with new machinery in math to show.
You can find more interviews here:

https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/precis/
3 x 7 x 17 = 357 years, by the way.
What I'd like would be a simple way to manipulate multiple tabs matching a pattern at once.

Press shortcut, then e.g. "githu", and it highlights all tabs matching the pattern (from github), and then you could close them with Ctrl+w, or drag and drop them to a new window. It would display the tabs either in a popup window (in a regular list view), or just highlight them in-situ at the top of the window.

Also nice would be to close all tabs older than x hours, except for example GMail. You'd press the hotkey, then have it somehow select the old tabs, and then with ctrl+click deselect the one you'd want to keep.

Admittedly, a power-user function, but something I could really use often.
Ahhhhhhh oops. Dates are hard!:-)
No waking up when you're deaf?

EDIT: but seriously how do deaf people wake up?
You might check out http://actor-framework.org/
Freezes the browser here, mobile Firefox
Maybe try changing your mental approach? Don't confuse 'working hard' with 'making money', it's possible to work your ass off and not make anything, conversely you can do very little and make a lot.

It stands to reason you're not the only person in your situation, so as a skilled developer, why not build a portal to connect developers with people who want work doing? Maybe something like Freelancer but specific to your country?
Thinking on doing a whole year "off" next year, off in quotes cause i would do some side projects and stuff along the way.
Because they have a finite pile of VC cash to burn through.
> * There's some legacy cruft (e.g., segment management) that's generally unused by anyone not in 16-bit mode.

x86 NaCl uses segments for sandboxing.
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If you need to target anything older though, getting the UCRT installed is the biggest pain! It can involve hot fixes and service packs for older OS's!! I spent money on a Microsoft support call to figure out why their installer couldn't get the UCRT installed on Win 2008 R2 and we never did figure it out. No thank you!
How would one find this out? Sounds like it would be fun to figure out how to develop all possible reasonably compact instruction combinations to achieve the same basic block and then compare timings.
> Quantum computer researchers that receive government funding are no longer allowed to publish results over 9 qbits.

Do you have a reference for that? I'm not doubting you, I just want to be able to cite controlling authority.
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Ye, I am at an age too many untangile zeroes that I have no nexus.
Yeah, I figured, no worries. Your English is excellent, apart from this little oddity. Either way to put the 's' is fine, really, but I think with the apostrophe (50's) is more common.
Oracle's database is pretty good (if you can afford it). All their other software, from what I've seen, is shockingly bad considering their resources.
I don't think that's really true. The things that make BEAM good at distributed systems like processes and network "translucency" (because let's face it, no network is transparent) are all built into BEAM itself, not OTP. OTP sits a layer or two above those features and certainly is great for building distributed systems. But you could build a distributed system on erlang or its brethren without using OTP at all.
Not true. 10 qubits is trivial to simulate classically.
Oh, of course. Cheating at solitaire is not an ethical violation. But to say "I'm not cheating when I look at hidden cards in solitaire" is incorrect.

However, plenty of players that have cheated by using the map tools do place Pokemon in gyms. That is also unethical (even though I would consider it a pretty minor violation as far as ethics goes).
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I love instant feedback, it really changes the way you can create code because your cognitive system is unloaded of many assumptions to rely on real results (in-place evaluated feedback). For someone that used to work in Smalltalk this is a move in the right direction in IDE design.
The course page should be here: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/Fs122syl.htm
One of the comments I always have when I see environments like this is that it looks really neat to have all these adjustable sliders and partial debugging and whatnot, but when you attempt to apply this to any truly useful program (ie: Anything that performs side effects) it really starts to break down if that side-effect isn't idempotent, like writing a file to a disk, or making a network call you really only want to make once, etc.

Do you have any strategies for that, or is the idea that these features are really only for testing functions that don't cause those sorts of side effects?
He probably had a few Lisp classes in college.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1658294/whats-the-purpose...
The incentives are different. Gambling models that require a rake always have a sucker tier.
from all the Snowden leaks it seems pretty apparent they couldn't break encryption... but it's been a while since then so who knows now
> but seriously how do deaf people wake up?

A vibrating wrist band (like https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Vibrating-Personal-Alarm-Shake... ) ?
What really happens is in fact very similar to what happens in the javascript event loop.

The processor processes instructions one after another, synchronously, but whenever he has to use something external he makes the call and continues his normal life until the interruption triggers.

The javascript event loop consists in placing function calls in stack and using WEB api calls asynchronously.
Fortunately, those slides leaked. The lower levels talked about cryptanalysis and supercomputers. The TS/SCI/ECI stuff said they were backdooring crypto at the company level using FBI locally and CIA/ISA foreign. Also note their own Type 1 systems allow these ciphers with most sensitive stuff and EKMS using a variation of Photorus called Firefly. Safe bet that good implementations of the stuff still work.
True sometimes, not at all other times. Or else we would all still be using Friendster. I agree in this case there are significant barriers to entry and that once Uber captures the market they will likely have it all the way through to self-driving taxis (10 years?), but there's some VCs out there that like to fund the underdog under hopes that it can leapfrog and then got the overpour of an already existing market that has learned that a technology exists (whether that be the technology of logging on and seeing what all your friends did today or the expectation that you could press a button on your phone and have a driver show up at your door in 5 minutes)
A few things that I would like to see in Docker
> > As I understand it, OTP is (among other things) a specific distributed framework.

> I don't think that's really true.

But, nothing you said contradicts it: it just argues for why BEAM is still a good platform for building distributed systems on even without OTP, not anything about OTP not being a specific distributed computing framework.
I was under the impression that olfactory cues are not reliable for waking up someone [1]. People in fires with broken fire alarms often won't wake until the flames and smoke are close/severe enough to harm them, way past the point of being able to smell a bit of smoke.

[1] http://www.vinparleur.net/IMG/pdf/Why_odor_alarms_will_not_w...
MapD does some of this, but with GPUs: https://www.mapd.com/product/
I'd highlight that there's multiple options here that require less steps, like using Sandcats, or passwordless email login, but that you've specifically decided none of those options are acceptable. So you're specifically looking for the most complicated use case you can come up with, and then complaining there's nothing simpler. ;)

I do like your rule, regarding people "trying your product", but I don't know if it really applies to setting up a server, because setting up a server of your own is probably the worst way to try something you aren't sure you want to use.

I'd suggest that anyone looking to "try" Sandstorm should be looking at Sandstorm Oasis, which is managed hosting you can try for free. (Along with being an easy place to see "live demos" of any of the apps on it.) If you try it on Oasis, and decide it fits your needs, you're much more likely to implement the additional steps required to configure it how you want it on your own hosting.

I don't think I'd ever personally put in the effort to set up something self-hosted until I already had "tried it".
at least not without a 10x improvement in some area.

If someone can get the cost down to 1/10th or speed it up 10x etc, then uber may find itself down and out (or racing to catchup).
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Perhaps designers assume that they are in full control of their website appearance, and don't include into consideration user's choices, enabled by various browser options/configurations.
They know what the rest of us do know: advances in quantum computing could hurt national security. So, they're using their default method of countering future advances by restricting sharing of ideas or tech. I'm not sure how effective it will be as it depends on how much funding comes from how many sources. Emanation attacks and TEMPEST security is still restricted to a handful of countries after decades of them discovering it. So, there's some precedent for the approach working.
Apologies for just cherry-picking this phrase;

(Disclosure: part of a populace)

> that your populace won't want that to happen?

I'd be willing to, if it helps the planet. I could be more thrifty in what I buy. Currently I'm not because I'm buying organic meat (even then, not very often) and other extras for sustainable things. Of course then I'd need to be thrifty on other stuff, but if that's what it takes. It helps if everyone else has to do it, too :) (for encouragement, and also because it's easier to be thrifty as a populace). Maybe it would even be nice.

It feels a whole lot more effective than my personal decision to restrict my consumption of meat to the occasional delicacy :P I often wonder, I try my best to leave a relatively small footprint, but it's real hard to get an idea what gives the biggest bang for your effort. Is it meat consumption? Maybe all those litres flushing the toilet? (although in NL, we got so much water we like to banish it) And does it really weigh up to what the industries are doing, or is it really just a drop in the ocean?

When I was a kid, one of my favourite authors, Midas Dekkers, a biologist, wrote this thing that always stuck with me: You can procreate, put a new human on this planet, or instead you can throw your empty batteries into the ocean all your life and still impact the environment less.
I get you--when I said "call it out," I meant that positively. You weren't praising it!
To me the whole value prop of Sandstorm is the idea that we can run our own absolutely independent cloud server. External dependencies for auth or hosting (e.g. relaying everything through sandcats.io) bring us to "well why not just use Google?"
It might not be the customer they squeeze though. Could be the drivers.
Very interesting work. I think it's a pity, though, that they focused on server workloads, which are mostly ran on commodity hardware. They recognize that in the paper, and claim that the trend is changing (blaming the end of Moore's Law). But the obvious current niche for a change like this is in phones.
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Hmm. Isn't it replaceable by changing the PATH and installing them in non-System Integrity areas of the operating system like /usr/local/bin?
This is really cool, but I can't figure out a use case to buy any :/
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Ah, very fond memories indeed. See also: XFree86.conf .
> As they are still so keen on controlling encryption we can assume with good confidence that so far they have failed.

After the Enigma was cracked, the government was terrified that the Axis would find out. If they knew they were cracked, they could change the cipher and set back the Allies significantly.

So they spent a ton of effort obscuring their own intelligence.

Whenever a decoded Enigma message told them where a U-boat would be, they sent a "spotter" boat whose job is was to be seen seeing the U-boat before it was attacked. That way there was a plausible source of information for the U-boat's location. (These spotters were so "effective", the Germans suspected there must be many more of them in the area then there actually were.)

One time they weren't able to get a spotter there in time and Churchill himself made the call to attack anyway. To cover for that and avoid arousing suspicion, they sent a radio dispatch to a fake spy thanking him for the intel, so that the message could be intercepted by the Germans.

I wouldn't be so confident if I were you.
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Sadly this is not getting enough attention imho. It seems the media is hell bent on pushing everything negative about Trump and ignoring anything about Hillary. Regardless of what people think of Trump as a nation we all lose when we don't have truly open and unbiased coverage of the news. Essentially all that we have now in the mainstream media is a wonderful propaganda machine.
It was easily verified but the prosecution insisted he may have changed his name or the prison recorded it wrong for reasons that were never quite explained.

Their arguments were so detached from reality they may as well have been trying to prove that Elvis made the painting.
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They were a hack! They came about because legacy browsers didn't support SVG.

Of course, IE8 is dead, so I can't think of a reason to stick with them.
Was D-Wave ever confirmed to give an actual speedup over classical computers? I just remember reading Scott Aaronson's continuous blog posts about how they never managed/wanted to release any real proof. I haven't heard of anyone claiming his $100k bounty and the last positive thing I read was "D-Wave does have something today that’s more computationally-useful than a roast-beef sandwich; the question is “merely” whether it’s ever more useful than your laptop." (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=954)