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Scott Adams of Dilbert fame frames it as a persuasion tactic called pacing and leading.

First you get people on your side by making them think you're just like them (pacing) and once there you can take them in whatever direction you like (leading) because they believe you're on their side.

Before this week, would you have ever thought that so many of the Republican base would be in favor of a maternity leave policy like the one Trump just proposed? These are the same people who have previously been complaining and campaigning against handouts and government overreach, yet now are cheering for a 'pro-family' maternity leave policy (rationalising after the fact because it's their guy proposing it).

The Dems are already there on that sort of policy so to get it implemented you need to get the GOP to come to the party. Trump is doing that. I highly doubt that if Hillary had proposed an identical policy that so many of the Republican base would be so enthusiastic about it, and that's how you make policy work.

And it's only just the beginning, the pacing is mostly done and he just needs to follow through on the leading.
That's an application. Hasn't been granted yet-- and it's been a while.

IANAL.
There's at least one really nice benefit: because there are no conductive wires in optical cables, electrical noise isn't directly coupled from the source to your DAC. This can make a big difference if your source is simultaneously charging from a noisy source like a car adapter [1]. Similarly, you won't create a ground loop by connecting your source to a wall-powered DAC.

[1] I have literally never seen an isolated [2] USB charger for a car, and I've looked. You can fudge it using an inverter, an isolation transformer, and a 120V charger. I'm not talking about "my golden ears hurt" noise; I'm talking about "egads this music sounds awful and crackly" noise.

[2] By isolated, I mean a charger that provides galvanic isolation between its inputs and outputs. Some switching power supplies are isolated and some are not. Any charger that plugs into a wall plug and isn't polarized MUST be isolated because, if it's not, it'll zap you. The upshot is that your car's electrical ground ends up connected to some piece of copper in or near your amp, and car's electrical systems are noisy as hell. [3]

[3] Fun reading: http://www.newark.com/pdfs/techarticles/tyco/Auto_Network_AN... If you ever visit the NRAO in West Virginia, there's a big area where you're not allowed to bring a non-diesel car because they're so noisy.
CAPS_LOCK -> L_CONTROL.

Long-time emacs use has permanently changed my left pinkie.
I used to commute on the trolley from La Mesa to Downtown and it was great. But if you don't live on one of the trolley lines, SD public transit is dreadful!

I spent years between a few healthcare startups, and I feel like there is a strong scene not only for Biotech but also in Communications and Defense. Speaking somewhat from experience: I feel like the problem is that the companies in those spaces are giant, lumbering, unappealing employers for young people. It's really hard to pitch an energetic new grad on writing Java for SAIC or Qualcomm.

Biotech stands to be an exception, but despite a strong presence by a medium-large number of companies, there just didn't seem to be enough jobs.
I'm sure all the "experts" who were so vocal about how wrong you were will speak up now and admit they were wrong. Happens all the time around here. ;)
There's so much selling in this post I get tired just by reading it.
Has anybody seriously been mentally bogged down by confusion from keeping in mind that they have caps lock on? That sounds entirely implausible.
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00360) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
It's a joke. I thought it was obvious, I'd have laughed if someone else had made it and I didn't think it's polluting anything, not tucked away in this side-thread-ish.
That's the point
So the secure enclave must have an embedded flash inside the processor that includes the pin code attempt counter -- meaning that writing to the external flash would not happen at all right?
You can do stuff with gssapi / kerberos. Or, if you consider that 2FA, you can use client certificates in addition to passwords. Interactive 2FA probably imo doesn't make that much sense for a database.
"Some people have much more than they need while others pay through the nose" sounds exactly like a true capitalist solution.
> Driving from my friend's studio 3rd floor walk-up near AT&T Park to Mountain View convinced me that drive is crazy.

That's analogous to visiting Carlsbad from your place in PB. I mean, except that Carlsbad is worth visiting ;-)

The norm seems to be living and working in the city unless you're attached to a large megacorp with a fleet of shuttles, or else you end up on Caltrain.
re: enforced 2FA, it does not appear to play well with bot accounts -- it's either all on or all off, and bots don't count as using 2FA.
What exactly are recruiters looking for in a screen?
I have only gotten past about 2/3rds of the standard half hour phone screens by recruiters. They have usually been around the same format:

-Describe your past roles.
-Why here? Why this role?
-Any questions for me? (Which is always a bit tough because the recruiter is not on the team I apply for)

I have usually given the same exact answers everytime with about 2/3 pass rate. When I get rejected at this step, I have never ever gotten specifics when I ask why. So my question to the HN community is: What are recruiters looking for in non-technical intro screens? Is it simply different from company to company and I have had bad luck? Are they looking for specific buzzwords related to the role? Are there general principles that I can apply to improve?
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> * be high bandwidth. F2F, skype, etc. *

I agree, and I hate it. What happened to the days when I could just be productive? Now, I have to spend hours "working as a team" (ie, socializing) on Slack. I hate it so much that I've dramatically cut down on the work I do. It's not that I'm asocial, it's just that I don't want to be exchanging memes when there's work to be done. I want to do the work, and do it well, so I can spend time with my wife and kids. Work for work, socializing for after work.

Even with IRC, it didn't use to be like this. What happened?

For the record, I'm not talking about being responsive, or good communications. That's critical. I've always responded to client emails within 2-3 hours (I break up my day into 3 email checks). But I find it impossible to get much done with teams that expect me to hang out in Slack or Hipchat all day long. But the younger kids love it. Maybe they code and chat at the same time, I don't know. I can't do it.

Doesn't anyone just hire people to do a job anymore? Are even contractors doomed to spending their days "meshing"?
On this topic, does anyone have any advice for pressuring ISPs to move on IPv6?

I've tried calling and public shaming Wide Open West to no avail. They don't seem to care at all. Time Warner Cable is the next fastest ISP (and they do support IPv6), but they want almost the same price for 1/12th the speed (600mbit/s WOW vs 50mbit/s TWC); so I begrudgingly stick with WOW anyway =(
Sometimes you just want an error to bubble up and be caught above. There's absolutely no reason to catch every rejection in the scope where the promise was created.
I've listened to some LibriVox recordings of public domain works, notably A Princess of Mars. The price was right at the time, though the quality was, as you say, remarkably subpar. If I could have had a neural net read me the book instead of having to change with narrators changing every chapter, that would have been preferable.

That said, I have money now, so give me Todd McLaren narrating Altered Carbon for the cost of an Audible Credit every time.
No one with the slightest technical background thought the phone was uncrackable, maybe not directly by the FBI but by pretty much any 3rd party contractor that does even basic flash data recovery.
The FBI was looking to set a precedent in order to be able to gain easy access to phones that could be also used by law enforcement, a local sheriff's department is less likely to be able to contract it out for every case and even if it would be a commodity it would be price prohibitive at scale.
Overall probably even iPhones with a secure enclave are not "immune" to physical attacks, not as easy as doing simple nand-mirroring but if can decap the main CPU without destroying it you should be able to directly probe the secure enclave logic.

Also while NAND mirroring does work, there is a good chance it wasn't used in that case, the current "theory" is that one of the patched USB DMA exploits were used to unlock the phone, NAND mirroring was too "risky" for the FBI to consider at the time, and it wasn't forensically secure IIRC one of the reasons for the very high price was the non-physical attack approach that the 3rd party provider they've selected had in their toolkit.
There is no dispute. He sent at least one email on the matter, and that is mutually agreed upon by him and NSA. The rest is in dispute.
> ... it doesn't mean that the two processes are fundamentally dissimilar, which was your initial point.

That was not my initial point. You've read the 'fundamentally' part into it.

> If you want to talk about learning Russian while knowing English, why not contrast it with learning set theory while knowing category theory?

That is what I was doing. I'm not saying learning math versus foreign language is fundamentally different, I'm talking about practical differences in actually learning one or the other: who in the audience here doesn't already speak one natural language? So, with any foreign language they will be in the position of somebody knowing category theory and attempting to learn set theory. That is by definition not, however, the case for someone trying to break into mathematics for the first time. So you always have language concepts only for a foreign language and language concepts + subject concepts for mathematics—practically speaking.
What worse is that they (or at least Comey) explicitly said that NAND mirroring does not work. When he was testifying before Congress, we was asked by several Congress people about NAND mirroring and (if I remember correctly) said that the technical experts had looked into it. This is either gross incompetence or outright perjury.
I use Caps Lock for all capitalization, in place of shift.
Exactly. Questions that have a super optimized answer that's probably non-intuitive and unlikely to be arrived at if you've only spent a few minutes exposed to the problem. These are basically puzzle questions in disguise.

In general I think there are two kinds of coding questions that are worth asking. Straightforward implementation based questions that should be solved basically as fast as the candidate can write, assuming they're familiar with the basic techniques. These are in the same vein as fizzbuzz and generally just give you a sense of the techniques the candidate has mastered (basic programming, bit-wise operations, recursion, etc.) The other kind are open ended questions that help show problem solving skills, knowledge of different algorithms and data structures, etc. These sorts of questions don't have the same variance as the secret puzzle questions. The amount of time to throw up a fizzbuzz implementation if you've seen the problem before should be about the same as if you haven't. And the same goes for open ended questions that are more about design, thinking, etc.

And of course you always want to factor in the problem of dealing with candidates who are nervous, in an unfamiliar and uncomfortable situation, and not operating at peak performance. You shouldn't expect production quality code for complex problems in those situations, you should be looking for code that gives you data.
The senators claim he did not avail himself of these channels. He did avail himself of a channel. That much is not in dispute. He may not have done so to your satisfaction, or apparently to the satisfaction of these senators - but that isn't what they claimed. They claimed he didn't do it at all. And that is patently false.
I don't think many, if any, cross it as it is. Not as a necessity in their life cycle anyway.

The strait is really narrow, with really strong currents and a huge change in salinity.

Not fun.
I honestly would find it very surprising that adding a tax has been the solution to anything ever in the history of mankind. Taxes are a cost of mantaining a government structure with a promise to yield benefits larger than the taxes it collects. Adding a tax just because is not a solution.
same problem with government. How do you get them to pay themselves less? How do you get them to be accountable?
They didn't claim he failed to make an exhaustive effort. They claim he made no effort. That claim is demonstrably false.
As an "academic" touch typer, I use Caps Lock as intended (for typing more than 2 all-caps letters in a row), however since I need that much less frequently than Ctrl, I swap Ctrl and Caps Lock on every computer that I call home. As far as switching between 3 keyboard layouts (dvp, Armenian, Russian), I map that to Option+Command+Space, but now that I think about it there's probably a better combination to be found.
I don't think Raskin liked WIMP very much. You can see what his original vision for the Macintosh was in the Canon Cat, which he went on to develop after leaving apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
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If he was under duress he probably didn't have time to filter through the documents. Even if he had a bit of time, it's difficult to know what would be relevant as events unfolded after the release.

In any case, it's already been established that he broke the law in order to expose a much greater law breaking, but many if not most people believe it to be OK because we also believe that it was impossible to expose the information in any other way. Considering all the miss-steps most whistleblowers made in their activities, Snowden was remarkably careful and clean. He made some calculations on what he needed to collect to successfully expose the crimes he witnessed, and the accuracy of those calculations is up for debate. I could easily come up with several reasons why he might have thought that he needed all those documents while under duress. For example, there may have been evidence of other crimes, and there would be no way he could sift through the documents while still working. Also, he recognized that he needed to leak slowly in order to keep the story afloat, or else he would get buried under propaganda and forgotten, as has happened to other whistleblowers that released all at once.
Right?? I think trolling and satire are different, now that I'm looking at this bud — satire needs to be obvious lest it further the goals of the thing it's making fun of. Trolling actually needs you to buy into what it's saying, which seems to be the goal here.
You'd need the politicians to do that. USPS could stop allowing unsolicited mail, but that is a revenue source for them.
I was definitely looking for something more insightful and/or deeper to share with my colleagues. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Every person who signed that document is a traitor.
I worked in one of those roles for a year or so, though in the UK. From the salaries you quote, I assume you mean the US? In the UK that sort of money is quite good.

The salary you quote, converted to UK money, is about right for entry-level roles. I was hired in that company at a graduate level and I had no experience of mainframes whatsoever when I got the job (which I hunted down out of the same morbid fascination you mention).

My older colleagues though, the ones with 30+ years experience, they would be getting much better money than that. It would depend on the position also, but I heard of at least one graybeard who was asked back from retirement, because the company couldn't afford to lose his expertise.

Now, I don't know what they paid him, but I'm pretty sure it's what I call a really, really good salary.
"Flooding the depression to -20 m would lower the height of the world ocean by 2.16 milimeters"

Hmm, maybe that could be a way to offset flooding from climate change, by redistributing the water elsewhere into low-lying but dry land.
I know some people who use capslock instead of shift for producing even isolated capital letters, the idea being that hitting two keys in rapid succession, even if it means one more keystroke, could be easier than timing the hold and release of the shift key. The world's fastest typist apparently also uses the same technique:

http://seanwrona.com/typing.php (see "typing tips" section)
I don't have my Mac in front of me, but you can do this using Seil[1] and Karabiner[2]. From recollection, you disable caps-link in OS X settings, use Seil to map caps-lock to control, and then use Karabiner to map tapped-ctrl to escape. Sounds a bit hackish, but it works very well.

You can also do the same thing on Linux using xcape[3]

[1]: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en
[2]: https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/index.html.en
[3]: https://github.com/alols/xcape
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Most of the world population doesn't have the kind of opportunities you do. You are probably at the top 5% of the 7 billion population. Chances are you can choose between a 100k job and a 120k job that you find unsavory and maybe you choose the lower paid one. Most of the population has different choices to make. You are the one projecting your privelaged position onto the rest of the world.
I'm in UC but work nearby at Intuit. Lots of us.
I guess it is normal in that the people (especially the youngsters) who run or practice other sports have a much higher injury rate than people who just walk or basically do nothing.

Also, in my experience, a vast majority of pupils and students who were injured did it during a sport activity and not because of other kinds of accidents.
Sorry, I meant westerners. You're laughing presumably because many Arabs dislike Israel out of antisemitism. That's true enough. But I'm referring to the fact that most university-educated people in Europe and America under the age of 40 find the inhumane collective punishment meted out by Israel to be disgusting and unforgivable. It's not due to antisemitism, however much deluded people like you would like to believe it is.
Is that because people's incomes are rising or because poorer people are moving out?
"...and taxed by, PayPal..."

PayPal (really X.com) was founded based on: "17% of the world's economy is lost to the financial industry. Wtf, they are just numbers in a database, can't we do better?"

I dunno what the percent is now, or whether PayPal decreased it significantly (or increased it even), but the difference is Elon's ability to look at problems, reduce them to fundamentals, decide if they can be improved upon or not, then working toward moving reality in that direction.

So, if the 'PayPal tax' is unacceptable to you, the "visionary" thing to do would be, figure out what the root causes of that tax are, figure out why they are unnecessary and how much correcting them will move the needle. Any significant progress in this area would be worth well more than a billion dollars, and you'd have no problem raising that capital. Make it happen!
> In English one would say "the horse has left the barn."

At least in my native English speaking world, we also say "that train has left the station". It's even listed as a cliche on a MetaFilter page on cliches and hackneyed sayings[0].

We also say "that ship has sailed".

0. http://ask.metafilter.com/177148/Thats-so-cliche
I think it has to do with the intersection in the Venn diagram, not so much the big circles.
Caps_Lock should be mapped to Control_L so you can type it in the home row with less stress to the hand/fingers. (no twisting)

Additionally, one of the better changes I made years ago was mapping redundant/useless modifiers to the bucky bits[1] in my ~/.Xmodmap.

Phys Key | New Modifier Mapping
-----------------------------------
CapsLock | Control
Alt_L | Meta
Alt_R | Alt (mod4)
Win_L | Super (mod3)
Win_R | Hyper (mod5)

To my surprise, quite a few programs support the higher modifier bits.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bucky-bits.html
What about black and rich vs white and poor?
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Do you think uBeam is also a scam / impossible technology to deliver?
In 2014, the US executed 34 inmates. If you think that is enough to remove "the irrationally violent" from a country with a population of over 300 million, you might need to go back to a statistics class.

Not to mention that if any of those inmates had children, the irrationally violent gene would live on anyway.
Um, no. I'd opt out entirely if it wasn't next to impossible. My uncle never had an SSN (and of course never collected a check from Social Security, though he lived to age 75.)
This is a great list.

When micro services work, it's because they made it easy to verify each of these [obvious] bullet points. For some jobs, file this under premature contemplation.

When other methods work... My top two are "clarity of focus" and "[relative] lots of unnecessary labour". "Lifecycle" takes a coalition third.
> some other people might think Snowden's already been convicted

The supporters of the original link: https://www.pardonsnowden.org/supporters
obviously think he has: why else ask for a pardon?
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ISPs in asian countries have been doing that for years

And they usually call it "web access" or something similar, never speaking of an "Internet connection". Which is what it is, a way to access websites and usually not much else.
> inner countries (Germany, ...)

Inner country in what sense? Germany has two coasts. A claim would still be reasonable, as Mallorca is Germany's 17th state. An epic battle would arise early in the morning, as usual started by the Germans claiming the land by putting towels on it, but soon they would have to fight off Brits in their sunburned bright red warpaint.
This is literally the only thing in our Angular2 setup that I'm really missing. Besides that, I've really enjoyed working with it (by way of Ionic 2)
nice article, thanks for posting.
There is an option in pgAdmin to automatically capitalize keywords. Last I checked though it capitalizes them only in pgAdmin - the actual .sql file is lowercase.
My understanding --- and corrections: welcome --- is that the one email we know about contains no complaints about NSA programs.
You can also see when the paper was submitted.
And I'd like to posit that you too may be incorrect about your assertion, as I have surely experienced a different interpretation albeit assumption of reality