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I work in an open plan office and find potentially relevant discussions to be the most distracting, so I'm glad that most of these now take place asynchronously over instant messaging. If you've even managed to focus in an airport lounge, or a coffee shop then you know your brain can deal with sounds which are completely irrelevant. Similarly, if it just so happens that people are talking about something directly relevant to your problem, you can join in. The potentially relevant discussions are the most insidious though, because the work of deciding whether they are relevant is sufficient to prevent deep focus.
The best place to start with this story would be this very well writen document by Mozilla: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6BlmbeQfn4a9zydVi2UvjBG.... This is WoSign's first public response after that document was published.
It's a cultural thing I believe. Some cultures have a different way of dealing with conflicts, and each one of those has its pros and cons.

The US for example threatens adversaries before it acts. And sometimes it will not act even though she says so. (bluffing like in a poker game) The benefits as I see them is being somewhat more transparent.

The Russians on the other hand will not threaten. They want to keep all their options hidden. But when they come out saying they will do something they very likely will and sometimes this can look like an extreme escalation coming out of nowhere.
What you quoted confirms what I said - the fact that the producers "responded to the criticism" indicates it was certainly a point that was raised by some or many people.

I didn't post a "summary"; if I were to have done, I would have written, "It shows a woman in demure clothing walking through NYC receiving an awful lot of unwelcome attention, which must have been unpleasant for her". But a lengthier discussion of the video would have been remiss had it not at least mentioned that it appears that much of the catcalling and so forth that she received was from people from minorities. The reason for this is unclear, but it certainly is a main point of contention and did serve as a distraction from the real message of the video (that women get unwelcome attention from men on the street).
Ironically I've used exactly this to generally shut down interrupters I didn't want. Point at them when you can see they're about to interrupt and then keep talking. Indefinitely.
The author states that:

> Until recently there were really no very good analogies available

On the contrary, our theories of mind have mirrored our latest technology for thousands of years. First, a hydraulic model, with "humours" flowing throughout the body's plumbing; then a mechanical model with tiny machinery; then an electo-chemical model with charges and currents.

This article argues strongly that our present computer-based metaphor is likewise off-the-mark: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
Are only real names allowed on Quora?

Seems like a silly restriction on Quora.

I signed up to Quora with a fake name a few years ago.

After lurking for a while I have started to answer some questions in my area of expertise and get some A2A(asked to answer) sent my way.

So should I just forget about answering questions with my fake name?
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I doubt you need an actual fake ID to get past social networking ID verification. A cell phone picture of your driver's license where you hamfistedly change the name and some digits in the number in Photoshop should be good enough for 99.9% of cases.
It certainly is if you strip down the certs trusted.
Every time I read about expensive programs like these I think of what else that money could have been spent on that would prevent the need for populations to rise up against their governments.
Interesting aside that came out of this case is the issue of cross-signing intermediary and root certs and it not being disclosed.

The WoSign roots were cross-signed by[0] Comodo and StartCom (owned by WoSign, but we didn't know that), so even with WoSign roots being revoked, there would still be a verification path.

Nice to see that now there is an effort to disclose all of these[2][3], and[1]:

> Mozilla now requires the disclosue of all intermedidate certificates, including those cross-certificates.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:WoSign_Issues#Cross_Signing

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...

[2] https://crt.sh/mozilla-disclosures

[3] https://secure.comodo.com/products/publiclyDisclosedSubCACer...
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Awesome use of load balancing for request retry across multiple backend servers:

> This was caused by the CMS (Certificate Management System), when it sent the signing request of the certificate to the signing server A, which had no response, then the CMS sent it to the other newly added signing server B. After a while the signing server A signed the certificate and sent to the CMS and also to the subscriber, then the subscriber installed the cert in its website and hat's why Censys recorded this certificate; in the
meantime, the signing server B also signed this certificate
some time later (in seconds) and sent it to the CMS, the CMS accepted it and rewrote it in the DB.

> This issue happened after adding another signing server on Jan 5th 2015, and found it on April 9th 2015. When had the two signing servers added a load balancer, but the configuration was not properly done because it didn't lock the request.

Mind you, that's a perfectly legit technical bug. Maybe they were using nginx for load balancing POST requests? :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11217477
8086 Linux still exists; people are working on it:

https://github.com/jbruchon/elks

But it's still pretty unstable. If you have a spare 8086 and want a Unixoid, go look up Minix 2 (not 3). It's not very comfortable on a 8086 with 640kB, but it works. Proper filesystem, processes, Bourne shell, the lot. It even has a self-hosted C compiler. You can get real work done on it (slowly).

https://www.minix-vmd.org/pub/minix/2.0.2/

Later versions really want a 286, but that gives you proper memory protection too.

Of course, if you want any processes bigger than 64kB code / 64kB data, you need to upgrade to Minix 386.
Thanks for the info. Is there a way to get the Allocation timeline to report about all allocations though? It seems to only report objects that are uncollected (that show up as blue in the timeline). That's useful for finding true leaks, but in my case (trying to fix a sawtooth pattern of heap usage), stuff that was allocated and then quickly GC'ed is exactly what I want to know about. Or am I looking in the wrong place?
I also wonder why such a comment is worthy of downvoting. Perhaps someone would care to enlighten me?
I definitely agree with you that shallow quizzes are not very informative and are alone not a good methodology for job interviews.

Naturally this question in isolation is not very informative and it is hard to differentiate if the answer to it comes from a more general understanding or is just memorized. It has to be supported with other questions and wider discussion.

What I want to say is that in a larger context this question is still not unfounded and it is hard for me to consider this or any other listed questions as a signalling a dominant status.
Why do companies want to know my gender at all? I am offended anytime some form asks me for it, often even making the field mandatory. It is seldom relevant to my relation with the company.
I have these speculations:

1. Tech giants are making room for themselves.

2. Their employees (male ones especially) are unhappy with deal, so they are attacking it.

3. Verizon is doing this to get discount.

4. CEO does not care about hiding lies anymore, she wants to be fired to get her money and may be she has lost control over her employees.

5. (highly improbable) They want users to delete their accounts due this kind of bad press.
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Slatestarcodex has a reasonably good examination of the system-level issues that led to the whole story: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...
Might be so, but I am sure it works perfectly fine for billions of sent email every day.
Made an account just to say "Thank you!". Unlimited bandwidth and HDD space... will this stay unlimited in time as well? I hope I can be understood.
There's no evidence that nanotubes wind up in the silk, and, let's be honest, can you tell the difference between the three EM panels? Is there some quantitative measure of the disorder in the first panel versus the second or third? Could you train a panel of humans (or a ConvNet) on a set of treated/untreated silkworm silk EM images and expect them to correctly bin which treatment the silk came from?
The article makes an interesting point in fleshing out an analogy between (a specific reading of) the concept of "software" and the mind, but does so in a needlessly condescending tone, which is very distracting.

Take this example:
"To begin with you may think of software as a series of instructions to the whole system (including both the hardware and the rest of the software) [...] This is as far as programmers in business data processing centers usually get. That is why so many of them keep insisting that "no computer can possibly think; if you know anything at all about computers you should know that they just follow directions". This is an incredibly naive view which only reflects the narrowness of their own conceptions and programming practices."

I would argue that defining software as "a series of instruction to the whole system" is perfectly valid. The author, instead, takes "software" to mean the functional properties of dynamic states of the system. Which also sounds like a valid definition, which leads to the mind / brain analogy.

edit: formatting
I have several non-famous friends who had to show their ID to Facbook.
So I am wondering how this mess got started

Is it just incredible incompetence on WoSign's part or is there a stronger reason why China's largest CA is trying to keep issuing weak certificates? Is is tinfoil-hattery to assume that the Chinese government is not ready for SSL to start getting unreadable again?
Classic example of resource allocation by org chart.
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Oh God, another blow to end anonymity. This is sad.

I still have a way to remain anonymous which is to only give my first name. There are already thousands of people with my name, so I feel protected in crowd.

Do you think this will cause a ban?
There is another HN post, about a seemingly different topic, that has interesting and disturbingly fitting words about the open-plan office:

http://laphamsquarterly.org/flesh/sodom-llc
Just for everyone's benefit, I've found http://hnhiring.me/ to be simpler to use, as they have a regex filter.
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I think there's a certain mystique to de Sade because so few people actually ever bother to read him - I suspect he's one of the better known writers for whom most people cannot name anything he's written, and certainly haven't read any of it, but do of course know the general theme. (I count myself in this group - despite having a degree in literature, I have never been anywhere near any of his writing; though I have seen the film Quills, which I enjoyed.)

(I'm writing this from a strictly English perspective - I don't know whether the situation is different in his native France: perhaps all French schoolchildren are forced to read de Sade!)

Also, not many people get their name turned into a lowercase noun in English!
> Careful with your terminology there. To be "ripped off" requires there to be no other choice. Your car has broken down in the desert and the single mechanic within 100 miles can charge you what he wants.

That doesn't reflect any usage of "ripped off" that I've ever heard. If I buy a doodad from one of three sidewalk stalls all next to each other, I pay $40, and any of them would have sold it to me for $5, it would be conventional to say I got ripped off.

Or, if I buy a dowsing rod advertised at a nonnegotiable price, it would still be conventional to say I got ripped off, because there's no such thing as a dowsing rod.

"Ripped off" means you paid more for something than it was worth. The lone mechanic in the desert isn't doing that; his services really are that valuable.
I have no clue who ryanlol is. Would it make a difference if I did?
With any life circumstances? Do you really believe that?
Years ago I was first author on a paper with this chap, who gives his Erdös number as 4, which would presumably make mine 5:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-cortina-borja-2b98ab47

Also, I was in a film with Donald Sutherland (even managing to get on screen at the same time) so I think that's a Bacon number of 2.
Thanks, I've updated my comment with that.
The USA. People of German descent are, at least historically, the largest population group.
Also, we see only a small part of the map. Outside this part there may be more crossings.
> in some past periods, people did not have "identification papers"

You mean last century? People are still alive from then.
Thank you very much for your comments! A few notes from the authors:

Texture's first goal is its use at publishers, during their review and QC processes. Word or InDesign submissions are converted to JATS using the converter from Open Journal Systems (OJS) and from then on are treated with Texture until publication.

Once journals have adopted JATS in their editing workflow, I'm sure they are willing to switch allowing submissions in JATS. Then authors have an incentive to write their papers in Texture from the beginning.

Texture is hackable and can be extended via packages implemented in JS (think Github Atom editor). Each JATS node type is implemented as a package already, with still many of them missing (math, figgroups, ...). A package implementation looks like this:

https://github.com/substance/texture/tree/develop/lib/taggin...

We understand that publishers have different needs and allow them to configure and customize the editor to any degree. We also want to open up the editor to community contributions, e.g. one could implement an R-backed visualization content type (see https://stenci.la/), that could live right in the editor. This would require introducing custom tags in the JATS serialization format, which we think is valid, if you are aware of the implications.

Texture is at an Alpha state, but a number of organisations committed to funding it's development, so we should see stable versions in the coming months. You are invited to join the Substance Consortium, which drives the development of Texture.

http://substance.io/consortium/

See the current product brief, until we have published a public roadmap.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v01mfeJw0IHgN7EIKE6JtEkE...
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Actually people of English decent are the largest - Germans are second.
Well as things stand now Russia's GDP is less than GDP of NYC :) So how they still believe they can be a super power is beyond me.China is far from being Russia's ally they are using the current situation to take over Russia's resources and make Russia extremely dependent. It looks like the end game is peaceful return of the territories that Russia annexed from China or installation of puppet government at some point.
Though the contents of https://github.com/antirez/jim dates from 2009, Jim Tcl is actively maintained. You'll find the official GitHub mirror at https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl.

Edit: If this subthread got you interested, antirez's other Tcl projects are worth checking out. They are listed on his page on the Tcler's wiki: https://tcl.wiki/9497. I particularly recommend https://tcl.wiki/Picol, the tiny predecessor to Jim Tcl, and https://tcl.wiki/Sugar, a macro system for Tcl 8.4+. Disclosure: I maintain a somewhat larger fork of the former.
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It's a $200M investment to own the company which will be taking $40M off someone else in a few years time to design and build their farm for them.
I agree with Joel, I've worked in an open floor-
plan, individual offices, shared offices, and even one open floor-plan where part of it was an actual store front.

For me, happiness and subsequently long-term productivity has been directly correlated to privacy.

While I'd never do anything casually I'm an open floor-plan I got successively drained over the week to the detriment of my nights and my weekends, so in the short run I was more productive but I also left those places.
Backcasting is a fairly standard testing method, though you've got to be careful about overfitting.

I need to RTFA, but this sounds like it might have relations to Peter Turchin's work on cliodynamics.
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Explanation for downvote: it doesn't contribute to the thread at all. You could have mentioned why you object to using hand signals.
> I'd like to see the execs barred from country clubs, and a 2yr ban on playing golf.

That would just give them most time at the office causing more of this!
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Liked the Discover yourself part, also you have to ask yourself what differentiate me to all other developers out there?, I tried so many times for past 4 years to become experienced in back end development but at the end I have more competitive advantages in front end & graphic design. So I decided to focus on those skills, may be I should try more and this mind set is not correct.
Slightly related

Why work doesn't happen at work | Jason Fried - 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs

tldw; M&Ms are bad
> So much money they are making and they can't hire anybody who can write English properly

If you're going to make fun of someone's English then you should probably write better English yourself. At the end of the day English isn't their first language and they'll probably very rarely have to use English. I think some slack should be given on this front.
Aquaponics (fish + plants) is a more closed cycle, where the plants can feed the fish, and the fish byproducts can add plant nutrients to the water, if the right fish/plant combinations & balances are used.

If this greenhouse system did not require an external nutrient supply, that would also be a noteworthy innovation. Note that people are asking if the nutrients are coming from the coconut husks, or from composting leftover tomato plant matter, specifically because it only said sun & seawater are used. Anybody who grows anything is interested in reducing inputs to their plant systems, and greater feedback interactions among their biodiversity.
When you have a business that effectively prints money, why do something this stupid?

I also wonder how much more effort they thought it was to write the code to backdate the certs (rather than use "now") v.s. code for upgrading to SHA-256.
Until you've got enough leaves and other detritus, there won't be any ground.
I don't speak English natively, and any corrections are welcome. On the other hand I don't run a multi-million business based on writing comments on Hacker News so currently hiring a PR person to proofread these comments is not within the boundaries of my budget.

WoSign runs a business that is basically based on trust, and Nigerian scammers have sent me PDFs that looked far more convincing and trustable than that one WoSign posted.
tarancato isn't making any money from these comments, so it seems reasonable that they are not using some form of proofreader.
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I have a wallpaper app where you can see which wallpapers are popular. One problem in determining popularity is I continually add new wallpapers. If each download has the same score, then a wallpaper from three years ago that people download once a week will be shown for some time before a newer wallpaper that people download every day. Also, as the wallpapers appearing high on the popular tab have a higher chance of being downloaded, it becomes a self-reinforcing loop, cementing the place of the old wallpapers.

My solution for this was exponential decay. Newer downloads get a higher score than older downloads. The older the download, the lower the score. Now I have a better chance of seeing what's popular no matter when it was added.

This is not the most complex practical problem in the world and the solution is straight out of Calc 2.
Probably they can detect uprising in Germany...
That's the nature of patents.. what is needed is a compulsory license schedule for prescription medications and devices as well as a dual-source requirement for gov't paid prescriptions.
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I would love to get more details on the linear-integer solve methodology, as it sounds impressive.
Was the problem formulated to also work as a linear problem where the binary or integer variables were first treated as positive non-integer variables, and then checked using branch-and-cut (That's how I would do it)?
Or did you do something differently?

Fortunately, we found a different plan of attack: one
which allowed the integer-linear-programming solver to
explore the problem space more efficiently and find
optimal solutions faster. What previously took an hour,
now took 0.2 seconds.
Not a waste of time imo. Engine choice is not bikeshedding
You nailed it with this "try VC only after being capital-constrained when hiring/expansion/development is a blocker to realizing imminent profit".

Don't raise money for an idea, raise money for a business that is capital constrained. VC is only one kind of funding you can try to grow with.

The best source of funding is revenue.
He is being "relieved of his duties as CEO" according to the report. Saying he's "stepping down" is IMHO like saying a fugitive "turned himself in" when police arrived at his house with an arrest warrant. (Although I don't think he is being accused of anything criminal here.) Most of the incidents appear to stem from technical errors and poorly implemented processes, but the whole list points to his inability to lead this kind of company effectively.

I'm always skeptical of whether replacing a few executives can actually fix the cultural problems that were fostered/ignored in a company over time. The new leadership has to overcome a lot of inertia, and that's assuming they're any better than the old. They're also still answering to the same investors and pressures.
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