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Because what good can come from discussing that topic? The only reasons to broach it are to a.) troll and/or b.) agitate for some horrific policy proposals.

He's not an academic researcher. Don't you think it's odd for some old white guy to get worked up over minority test scores? Why write about this rather than basically anything else? Either he's a troll or profoundly unaware about how bringing this line of argument up may make people feel threatened. There are a lot of things that simply don't need to be discussed. It's like graphically describing your partner's episiotomy over dinner. Some things just inspire a visceral reaction.
I actually compiled a list of these from the last time this subject was mentioned on HN. http://gitoops.xyz/
Balzac was a wild guy, and prolific. Here's how he worked:

Balzac drove himself relentlessly as a writer, motivated by enormous literary ambition as well as a never-ending string of creditors and endless cups of coffee; as Herbert J. Hunt has written, he engaged in “orgies of work punctuated by orgies of relaxation and pleasure.” When Balzac was working, his working schedule was brutal: He ate a light dinner at 6:00 P.M., then went to bed. At 1:00 A.M. he rose and sat down at his writing table for a seven-hour stretch of work. At 8:00 A.M. he allowed himself a ninety-minute nap; then, from 9:30 to 4:00, he resumed work, drinking cup after cup of black coffee. (According to one estimate, he drank as many as fifty cups a day.) At 4:00 P.M. Balzac took a walk, had a bath, and received visitors until 6:00, when the cycle started all over again. “The days melt in my hands like ice in the sun,” he wrote in 1830. “I’m not living, I’m wearing myself out in a horrible fashion–but whether I die of work or something else, it’s all the same.”[1]

[1] http://meaningring.com/2015/05/06/daily-rituals-balzac-by-ma...
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From a former HN discussion http://gitoops.xyz/
It's pleasing that a great French writer expounds on coffee, and (a century later) a great British one treats us to the requirements for a nice cup of tea: https://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-orwell-prize/orwell/ess...
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NTPsec advocates keep saying "eliminated 50% of vulnerabilities <<<before they were disclosed>>>", as if there were another meaningful way to eliminate vulnerabilities from a codebase.

Can you provide a breakdown of the vulnerabilities NTPsec HAS and HAS NOT been vulnerable to, along with their severity (low: degrades time service, medium: provides a practical vector for corrupting integrity of time service, high: compromises integrity of the server itself) and whether they're exposed (a) in the default configuration, (b) in a configuration run widely on the Internet, or (c) in no configuration actually known to the project maintainers?

You clearly have the list somewhere, because everyone involved in the project has this statistic ready to quote.

If you don't have the severity and exposure breakdowns, that's OK. Post the list anyways. Maybe it'll be obvious what the severity and exposure is.

This business of counting vulnerabilities and claiming victories has been a problem for software security for two decades now. Ops people don't care about the vulnerability count, if the vulnerabilities left exposed in the codebase are the ones that get their servers popped.
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With the 4000 LOC Wireguard https://www.wireguard.io/

what are the incentives to continue using IPsec or Strongswan?
It's not surprising, consider the failure modes:

- a key is made public, and we have to call a user or refund them (for retention purposes)

- a key is made public, and we revoked the key, potentially breaking the customers builds/deploys and potentially knocking a customers stuff out (if, for example, a key is disabled during a push to production).
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Interesting to see IBM has also open sourced its JVM infrastructure as Eclipse OMR [0]. Which provides a JIT infrastructure to any existing runtime.

[0] http://www.eclipse.org/omr/
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This 'bee' drone is a robotic flower pollinator
Perhaps if JavaScript did not exist, those apps would be using something separate to the Web, and the Web would have remained a mostly non-interactive, read-only medium.

You're overestimating the importance of JavaScript here. phpBB didn't start using JavaScript until phpBB2 was released, and I believe that UBB, the forum software phpBB was based on, didn't use JavaScript either at the time. (Of course, this was partially because JavaScript was so limited back then.)
It is fucked up. Again, why smaller companies are a bigger liability. No accountability when joe schmoe small businessman CEO decides to poke around their own companies' user data.
I think there is a place for both. Maybe not data structures, but things like application architecture and development practices are ripe for good discussion.

A well designed take home assignment, meanwhile can be a good filter, telling you immediately if the candidate knows the basics and has the added benefit of showing you strengths and weaknesses in their practice.
>You underestimate the complication

I'm not underestimating anything. If people want to have highly accurate time available at a hardware level, they can pay for it. I'm complaining that it isn't even an option from server vendors, who are quite capable of implementing it.
...and people with skills in communication will use Dog Whistle type terminology or purposefully phrase their remarks so that journalists will hopefully pick up their statement and deliver it as intended.

Sort of like how time and again I keep hearing "This bill is about the protection of Young Boys and Girls!" regarding the Gender Identity Restroom bill, when statistically speaking, Young Boys or Girls are more at risk from abuse by their close family. Journalists aren't, in theory, supposed to point out the hollow, rather ludicrous assault on intelligence the "Think of the children!" argument is in this regard - that's for the public, you and me, to figure out. Unfortunately, I guess, considering the state of things.
It has been translated from french, maybe the translator has taken some liberties.
> I don't know any loanwords that break english pluralization rules in german

The plural of 'Baby' is 'Babys' (instead of 'Babies' – though some people also use that form) and 'Computer' doesn't change.

On the other hand, both 'Indices' and 'Indexe' are used and for 'Tempus' the only plural is 'Tempora'.
Some identify themselves as feminists but don't align with the core goal and take it way further in the other direction. They also might do things that hinder the core goal of feminism but you can't equate them and the larger idea.

The problem is, these individuals seem to be the primary voice attached to that label. Which is how such labels are defined.
> I'm not sure the problem is a lack of leaking solutions that we can trust, especially as long as WikiLeaks is around.

You still trust WikiLeaks?
Incident report mentions slow response times, but actually their API doesn't work at all for the last hour.
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Many students of the Udacity Nanodegree have found out the hard way that using a stock MBP for CNN training isn't exactly great. Even MBPs with the NVidia 750m struggle (my home workstation is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with a 750ti SC - and it is only barely adequate).

Honestly, I can't see how you'd be able to run a high-quality 3D sim while training a CNN or other ML model at the same time without something beefier (I haven't tried it yet with my 750ti - but with only 2 gig I have a feeling it wouldn't like it much; it's ok running with the trained model, though).

What students usually (I think) do when all they have is an MBP (especially one with only intel graphics) is train on an AWS GPU instance, then run the trained model locally. This class has been instructive for me in showing that for anything beyond the toy stuff we're playing around with, you really need a beefy ($$$) system. I wish I had the kind of money needed in order to do so (an 8-way 1080 or TitanX box would be sweet - fat luck with me getting it past my wife, though!).
This is a translation of the original French. The translation was done within the past 50 years, I think.
This is terrific. Would be a great resource for journalists to identify and understand some of the key points that can then be shared in a more public-friendly format. I wish all stories had this kind of accessible data “behind the news” that could be explored!

Here's a great article on climate change's effects on our water infrastructure in light of the Oroville Dam's situation: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/what-californias-...

An example - the bulk of California's water storage is in the natural reservoir of mountain snowpack. The large volume of precipitation this year, much of it as high-altitude rain falling on snow, has caused an extraordinary amount of snowmelt in a short period of time. The natural reservoir of snowpack is rapidly released into our manmade resorvoirs and strains or exceeds their capacity. This cycle of alternating extremes, drought to wet, is expected to continue, and our water infrastructure's capabilities must be planned in light of that.
> That said I'd say putting secrets in a git repo is a pretty risky thing to do

Storing and keeping secrets is a pretty risky thing in general. Think: small team, small app, everybody has the secrets anyways for deployment purposes. Sure, setting up vault is superior - but how much effort does that cost that could be invested in a better solution. Or a puppet repo that you use to provision your machines, shared in the ops team: small team, everbody has root - on each machine there might be an ssh key that gives away all your secrets. So better invest in solid FDE and maybe tie that to a TF device, a yubikey that is required to decrypt the disk etc. Not perfect by all means, but there's limited time to go around and you really should think about what threats you want/can defend against. (for example, for most projects, I'm not wasting any thought about defenses against a nation state actor, that's a threat that I won't be able to meaningfully counter anyways).
We're reading this in a modern (1990s) translation - Balzac wrote in French.
SVM is super cool, but there's a huge caveat: Not only is it closed source, but you can't even use things it outputs in production. The TruffleRuby wiki notes that the output of SVM is covered by http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-... which says that you can only use it for testing and not production.

Essentially, you can only get good startup times with TruffleRuby for testing. If you want to use TruffleRuby in production, you can't use the SVM version.
This is a great analysis.

However, this seems a little off: "Based off of our estimate, for every inch of rainfall at the Oroville dam, 136,790.5 acre-feet will be added to the reservoir." The relationship probably isn't linear. Much less of the first inch of rain makes it to the reservoir vs. the 5th inch of rain.

Hopefully, the next iteration will project how many inches of rain it will take this weekend to top the spillway again.
That's it? Seems like Verizon's negotiation experts weren't very good. Yahoo board is desperate to sell the company. I think they would've easily given up on a billion dollars to do it.

Also, if this was some other company, it may have actually cared about Yahoo's disastrous data breaches and its cooperation with the NSA. But because is Verizon, the cooperation with the NSA and the spying infrastructure being already in place is probably why Verizon didn't want to cut too much from the price.
Is coffee a zero sum game? for me, I noticed that with time you have to keep increasing the dose to keep the same level of effect.
Interesting point. Rhetoricians and sophists appeared in ancient Greece, becoming popular along with the rise of Democracy. It's believed this is because the ability to argue convincingly lead to sway over the Demos, the people, and therefore the ability to influence law.

Put another way, these people were politicians. They argued professionally, and were trained to do so, or made their living training others to do so. I don't think their existence can be used to inform how every day people had conversations at the time.

More interestingly, maybe the problem is that everyone now thinks they're an amateur politician.
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So... How does the fed continue to function?
Sorry, I was talking about glass recycling vs can recycling.

Yes, washing glass is quite a bit more economical than glass recycling. We do the whole glass deposit thing in Germany where I grew up.

(The deposit is actually pretty clever: if you are rich enough not to care, you can just leave your bottle anywhere, and someone else with more time but less money will pick it up sooner or later.)
Wow almost every statement here is wrong.

#1: the dam is managed in the winter about 1 million acre feet below the top, for flood control purposes. The spillway has been operating all winter long.

#2: The operator cannot decide to use the emergency spillway. Water just goes over it when it approaches the top of the dam.

#3: no water has gone over the dam. That would destroy it.
I noticed the first marketplace link refers to a freely available textbook on openstax (https://openstax.org/). What is the advantage for me as a student or professor accessing this content through your site when I can download a PDF directly from the source (the openstax site)?
That strategy resulted in the Great Depression and later 2008 crises. Damage was so high that country had to be rescued by the federal government. So, banking is a decent example of how such consolidation into private hands can go wrong. Now we just apply that to IT services and data.
Not a lawyer, but I don't think anything can prevent one from being sued. Anyone could sue you today without even needing a reason. They might not win, but often (especially in "intellectual property") the goal isn't to win--it's to make your opponent spend to defend and drain his wallet.
>Given that the NSA has locked down their systems completely since Snowden's revelations.

Are you sure about that? NSA has been leaking far more recently than in the past. The Shadow Brokers are just one of many. Not to mention, the intercepted signals that are being talked about through the news with the Trump presidency.
Thanks, that makes a lot more sense. (I understood Substrate AOT'd the actual Truffle-based interpreter, not guest programs that run in that interpreter, but wasn't sure exactly what tooling you meant). I'll peek inside aot-image when I get a chance.

> I can't say whether the SVM will remain closed or not. I really don't know. There just currently aren't any plans to open it.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, then! SVM is honestly one of the most exciting components. So if I try it and I have any problems, I'll definitely let graal-dev know.
$1B would have been better, but this is a dream come true for the people who take infrastructure and security seriously.

We've got Amy Pascal's head on a spike, now we have the same for the Yahoo deal.

Please, may this be the year that Wall Street is finally bitten in a serious way by a tech company flaming out due to the technical incompetence of its leadership.
Is that not a false dichotomy?

Providing help , like bed nets to prevent mosquito bites in order to reduce malaria, does not promote nor prevent other fight for more freedom in Ethiopia. Sure, the Gates foundation could have chosen to concentrate on that other front, but criticizing one type of aid for not help with something else is pretty uninteresting.
I think that recent events have shown that leaks are still very much viable, and anything that can aid in the release of actual data as opposed to first-hand accounts in invaluable.

Also, anything that helps keep leaked data away from Wikileaks is a good thing. I wouldn't trust them any more. At all.
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Because IPSec is natively supported by many OSes out-of-box, while Wireguard doesn't seem to have even third-party packages for many systems?
Woah, this is super cool! Very interested in how they deploy all these drones, keep them updated and maintained, and (if they are) up 24h/day.
Kind of a fun study, enabled by the presence of so much public-domain data from CA DWR.

One piece that's missing from this analysis is upstream precipitation. You are sensing precip at Oroville itself, but water in the dam comes from everywhere upstream (3600 square miles according to [1]). As well as (potentially) snowmelt.

People doing forecasting of reservoir levels will be integrating distributed precipitation information, snowpack, and temperature, with a soil runoff and routing model to get predictions.

[1]: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/profile?s=ORO&type=dam
Yes! We have been fortunate to find few in-house drone racers and learning the grit behind their skills. Getting SITL/HITL with Betaflight and/or Cleanflight is definitely one of our important goal in coming months.
The mods change titles around here all the time. Sorry but I don't know how to summon one. Maybe someone else does?
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Given the circumstances can I park after 4?
How about deploying a cluster of "umbrella" satellites to throw some shade on regions of the planet that get too hot? 15 years of having less solar illumination, not complete darkness just a penumbra, could maybe do a lot.

How big of a shadow would we need?

Edit - someone already thought about it; http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160425-how-a-giant-space-u...
More analysis on the dam situation: https://www.metabunk.org/oroville-dam-spillway-failure.t8381...
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What startup founders don't realise sometimes is that marketing is more important than having the best product.

I've had the luck of being on both development and marketing ends and high quality marketing can definitely sell a product that's slightly inferior to the competition 10:1

If you need big names attached to your product early the best way is to give it out for free to those first strategic customers. Why would anyone turn down something useful and free.

If you can't tell why another startup beat you out when you had a better product it's garaunteed to be marketing related.
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> your "ideal world" is actually (surprisingly) the world of free market capitalism

I don't think this is true. In this world, companies keep business ideas for themselves, so they can try to be first to market, which is more important than almost anything else (even to a large extent product quality). On the other hand, potential customers don't ever publish their needs, they just don't seem to know what they want until somebody tells it to them.
What type of things exactly?

Edit.

I find it interesting you say all 3 scenarios when the 3rd one is all unique code.

For example. If we look at behavioral marketing.

mouseflow
hotjar
navilytics
fullstory
crazyegg

+ im sure there is more.

What you are saying, is that any of these guys could sue each other? For what, copying the same idea and executing it?
Political correctness was mentioned in the article:

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I have been scanning through the repo for the past hour and I am blown away. Amazing work! As a recent CS graduate who's dream is to work on drones, virtualization and autonomy, is there any place I can shoot you a resume?
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I really enjoy the graphs and analysis produced by this project, but does it irk anyone else that the Y-axis does not start at 0 in all the graphs? There are some graphs further down the page that start and 0 and they seem to show the data so much better (Water is increasing, but not 50x or whatever).
This would be very important for lighter than air drones. Which... might have much more commerical application anyways due to their long loiter capability.
Personally I think its very different. If you are asking me directly I'll embellish so please forgive me based on that...

Chat systems for example like Slack to me are so much more productive than hunting someone down in an office. You are then forced to use that all the time which reenforces productivity in communication. White boarding still sucks remotely though until we have a holographic communication with 3d people on 2d whiteboards or VR.

I tend to be binary in that social interactions distract me so much that I fully engage in them, forgetting the work, tending to tell jokes and am less focused on getting work done although you get a comrade boost but I have such a strong family life that I don't really need that but it is distracting like a drug to me. That I don't have a need to be validated by social interactions at work probably is a huge factor of preferring remote along with not driving.

Alone, I can completely focus and zen out in music, literally getting weeks worth done in days compared to my coworkers having to drive to work which is 2-3 hours less out of your day when you add it up and robs you of energy and things like working out and having more hobbies.
I was just predicting we'll see this some day, and here it is already, amazing.
That is almost definitely more messy looking than the alternative.
I like what you're trying to accomplish, but you are missing a very helpful piece of information in your analysis. I'm sure you noticed how poor of a predictor rain fall is in your assessment of how much water will be added to Lake Oroville. This is largely because Oroville is filled from Sierra Nevada runoff. If a particular storm system is warm (as was the case with the latest one), it will mostly rain in the Sierras. This has a twofold effect: one, the precipitation doesn't stay put at higher elevations (as snow does), and two, it melts the existing snow, causing it to also be added to the downstream water accumulation. So a key part of forecasting is not only to look at expected precipitation, but also the expected snow levels.
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Supposedly, the number of adenosine receptors in your brain increases over time with caffeine consumption, creating a tolerance to caffeine.

I've read articles [1] which suggest that cycling off caffeine for 7-12 days helps reset the number of adenosine receptors to the baseline.

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-is-how-you...
Regarding #2, they can choose to decrease flow out of the main spillway and let it go over the emergency spill way - From my understanding, that is exactly what happened over the weekend. They were trying avoiding continued damage to the main spillway.