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As infogulch noted, the reason I counter mentions of Paul Karger's attack (MULTICS early 70's) that Thompson wrote about is that is has to be a social fad/meme to mention it when it's happened only twice on record. Millions of attacks, countless vulnerabilities by compiler errors, many repos compromised, and 2 instances of a compiler-induced subversion. Yet, you brought up Trusting Trust instead of the other stuff we really need to worry about. That's typical do I always point it out.

Plus, Karger pointed out solution shortly after the problem: verified compiler, safe languages, repo security (esp paper in safes), crypto/courier distribution, and designed to build locally from source using onsite tools rerunning all tests, proofs, etc. Mitigates the need for worrying about Trusting Trust most of the time plus knocks out majority of attacks. Better to mention that if worried about subversion. Or Myer's landmark work that defined in detail problems and solutions.

Trusting Trust meme just misdirects focus from important issues.
That's right, however check the terms of each package, you probably will find that those are under "alternative terms" which are allowed in the new regulation, and if you accept, they take precedence.
My guess is that people calling you also have to pay high prices per minute, as is common in Europe. So, the price doesn't include incoming calls.

Not sure whether Canada world like US or like Europe.
>No, it would not be a perfect answer, and could work against you: it shows you are not willing to work with me and assume some intelligence on my part (until proven otherwise) and thus you are potentially not going to work well with the rest of the team

I don't know how what was said implies this in anyway.

This is one of the biggest problems with interviews. Every interviewer has some dorky idea that x means y is a terrible developer while another interviewer thinks x means y is a great developer.

"I want an opportunity to learn" - Oh great. We want someone whose interested in learning more and isn't cocky.

"I want an opportunity to learn" - Oh no, that just tells me you don't know much and aren't interested in contributing
> since nobody is meant to actually _read_ raw markdown, i've never understood why everyone cites that passage so religiously, other than that is part of the origin story mythology.

Because that's not a universal feel, and some people do read it. I write a subset of markdown normally in text. I use asterisks for bold, use a hash for section headings, and use unordered and ordered lists as defined. I value that I write the same thing, and sometimes it's just text and sometimes it gets prettified, and I really don't need to care the majority of the time whether it does or not, because for the most part people understand the conventions used in the plain text.

Here's the kicker, in one job I designed a system to send email to customers that took advantage of this, and if you supplied a text message to email and the markdown version was different, automatically generated a multi-part email with the plain text part being the markdown, and the HTML part being the generated output from the markdown.

> due mostly to netnewswire, which installed gruber as its default mac-blogger, gruber's reach was phenomenal when blogging first went viral. if you don't understand the power of that reach at that time, it's probably because you weren't around. and that group of "cool internet kids" still flaunts itself, most notably recently in the nearly-immediate widespread uptake of json-feed.

I think you vastly overestimate the pull Gruber had over the general people at that time. I didn't know anything about him, but it wasn't because I wasn't around, I was already working in the industry. It was because I didn't have anything to do with Apple products and didn't care. Which is the same for most people. We're talking about three years pre-iphone here. Before the unibody macbook. Apple's core product that was tapping a wider audience was the iPod. If you weren't following Apple as a customer and fan, chances are you didn't know or care who Gruber was. I certainly didn't.

But Gruber wasn't the only author. Arron Schwartz invented it with him, and Aaron Schwartz was helping out an early Reddit a year later. Again, I think you vastly overestimate Gruber's role over actual use in popular sites, such as Reddit, and later Stack Overflow.

> well, that coupled with the fact that markdown has a catchy name. one cannot deny that. that helped too.

I won't deny that at all! I think that probably has more to do with it than Gruber's advocacy as well. :)

> at any rate, kbenson, i'm off to a school reunion

Enjoy! I've got another year before I have my 20th.

> we've hit the point of severely diminished returns anyway.

Agreed. We're really just refining our prior points but not making any headway in persuading each other.
Or the L1 visa
That doesn't seem like a mystery to me. The argument in favor of tabs boils down to "tab damage won't happen". The argument in favor of spaces boils down to "tab damage will happen". I know which of those two philosophies I would prefer to have in charge of important things.
"was" would be more accurate. The price has gone up significantly due to its popularity, and there are far better options at the pricing range where it sits now.

They're also significantly colored headphones; The cheaper m40x are actually more neutral.
Beat is criticising the specific (and sole) measure used in the article, and has provided a list of specific measurable properties that also have bearing on the issue of sound quality. I think your criticism is unfounded.

The complicated, handwavy stuff occurs when you try to map the measurements on to what people think is good. Maybe some day we'll have a good enough handle on that (psychoacoustic perceptual models, and so on) to call it just "signals and math", but right now it isn't.
There can be any number of telcos, the telephony regulator just needs to force them to share the infrastructure.
That Montreal winter tho...
I agree with you: There is a misunderstanding here.

Google obviously gives no data to advertisers... they sell targeted ads. The difference is vast. As an advertiser I would purchase an ad targeted at 20-something male video game players, for example. I would not get to read their emails to get better insight into their minds or anything insane like that.

And if that started happening at Google they'd die, and they know it.
This could just be my experience but one thing I have learned working in games is that Asian companies can be really authoritarian to their employees. I have experienced this with Japan, South Korea and China. Game companies are very secretive and authoritarian with their workers to begin with but culturally it seems more acceptable in teams I worked with in Asia.

A team I worked with in South Korea regularly slept at the office because the Korean lead was there slave driving the crunch. South Korea in itself is hard to even launch a game there because they demand percentages and you must have internal teams/representatives, similar with China. China team, the employees were always in a fear state of making the boss angry or doing the wrong thing. I noticed that it led to releases just to meet dates even if the work was incomplete just so the boss would not get mad. Working with them the devs told me they regularly ship when not complete just to satisfy dates and it led to many issues especially at hand off points because they knew it wasn't fully functioning.

I think overall companies in games think they can get away with this ownership/authoritarian type attitude anyways, but it might be easier in Asian cultures where there is a more authoritarian lean.
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There is large downward pressure on the stock due to an impending lockup period expiry.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/snap-short-sellers-bet-on-a...
The frequency response and the impulse response are correlated. You can just get one from the other through fourier transformation. Therefore it's perfectly fine to measure whatever is easier to measure, which is frequency response through sine waves for audio equipment. Phase shift can also be measured through this approach (and is required for calculating impulse reponse).

Sure, nonlinear distortions are not covered and also sure that the measurements won't cover everything which will influence the perceived sound. But nevertheless frequency response measurements are a very solid tool which allows objective comparions between various systems.
This shouldn't really surprise outdoorsmen overly much. The big game (for me, fish) are almost always more wily, because they've had to be to reach their advanced age and size.
I consider Snapchat's UX to be a sort of "command line mobile" interface. It's bad until you know it and once you do, it's very powerful.
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It can log that stuff -- increase "LogLevel" in sshd_config.
Because what Vancouver needs is even higher real estate prices
Apple did a great job engineering the iPhone. They really killed it, no doubt. That being said, I think that Apple was the only company that could have invented the iPhone in the mid-2000s, because of their high degree of vertical integration. They were the only company that had a completely proprietary computer system for which they developed the hardware and software. Also, I think that the basic interface for the iPhone was fairly inevitable. Cell phones were becoming little computers and giving them little keyboards was a problem, because there wasn't enough space. If you figure that little keyboards were a dead end, then about the only remaining option was to use a touch screen. Other companies could have started working on the touch screen, but they didn't have an operating system. I believe Apple was in a unique position to create the iPhone.
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> I've even heard arguments that it's esoteric on purpose

An interesting article on Snapchat : How Snapchat Built a Business by Confusing Olds

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-snapchat-built-a...
But after you've tried environmental design, incentives, threats, guards, and surveillance, then can it be accomplished without the small, windowless room? I'd guess not at a reasonable cost.
This is the worst of racism. The next time a white HNer tells PoC to just turn the other cheek toward racist words, point them to this. Racist attitudes are what enable horrific crimes against blacks, such as these.
Well at least the "X is the next Silicon Valley" angle is original.
Tabs are for people that use soft wrap.

Spaces are for people still using 80 column monitors.
The only thing you gotta look at to confirm this is how elected judges rule when election time comes up. They get a lot tougher on crime.
our CEO isn't even a tiny bit of a lying, cheating sociopath

How would you possibly know?
If you record a million orders to yourself, that's not money laundering. Though, unless you already paid tax on that money you're using to purchase the "pizzas," you are committing tax evasion. Because you're essentially giving pre-tax dollars to your private company.
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> Everything about Go is designed to maximize what Google wants out of mid-range programmers. It's so weird how non-google people seem to find this state of affairs good.

If it let's them build products that serve billions of users in ways that that were completely inconceivable even 30 years ago then maybe it's not such a bad tradeoff. To be clear I'm talking more about the philosophy that produced go, not so much the language itself. Obviously Google is more than go.
Private prisons need to be regulated so heavily that they'll effectively cease to be private, or not exist at all IMO.
I really liked Snapchat. It was new and fun, and innovative when it first came out. But they've really failed to fight against FB coming into their market with Instagram.
Tensorflow is only mentioned for NLU, no mention of it for ASR.
Honestly Google and Facebook should just become their own cities. The housing restrictions are so incredibly broken in the south bay/peninsula that I'm not sure there's a solution other than to work around them entirely.
In their (copyright enforcement cartel) mind, it IS terrorism. Remember what Jack Valenti testified before Congress about the VCR[1]:

'I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.'

[1] https://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm
Eventually tech will find a way out of the money black hole of CA. You can be weary of these stories but eventually there will be snowball that rolls far enough to become big enough to be worth caring about.
The people in these prisons essentially live in a different USA than you do, one where punishment from authorities can be harsh and arbitrary with no due process, where human rights violations are rampant, and where they have no democratic vote.

The kind of country I would like to think many of us would rebel against, if we found ourselves living there.
Got it, your point seemed only mention private prisons so I was confused.

Yes, it would be interesting to see if market forces could be used to improve outcomes. It does seem that we politically prefer punishment to rehabilitation though, and the incentives are aligned accordingly...
> The solution used involves re-checking for UTF-8 validity a lot,

You only need to check once, at the boundary of when you're converting from something that may or may not be UTF-8 to a UTF-8 string.
Taxation is more of a tricky topic, but yes, we all agree everyone owes taxes so not paying them is a crime.

But money "laundering"? Who is the fraud against? What if I make a ton of money by running my own camsite. But I want to pretend I'm a successful software company. So my camsite buys a license from my software company that eats up all the profit. There's nothing wrong with any of this.

Doing the same, but with an illegal source, should be just as legal. Go after the real crimes (e.g. killing people for money).
Did the FBI give any reason/leverage as to why you should comply with their ask?

If you are writing about it here, I'm assuming it wasn't an NSL (national security letter) and so would you be open to publishing a copy of it publicly? Would be great to get sunlight on that.
In the Subaru.

Mixing music is very, very difficult. You have to deal with the inaccuracy of your equipment, the inaccuracy of your ears, and the ability to drift into boiled-frog mode, making something terrible that sounds good to you because you got here gradually.

Another kind of related tool I use extensively while mixing is reference recordings - listening to someone else's music on the same system, in alternation with what I'm mixing, to make sure I'm not boiling my frog.

But yes, listening to other reproduction systems - especially bad ones, like my Subaru speakers and older iPod earbuds - is critical. It helps me insure that what sounds good on my multi-thousand $$ studio monitors in a decent room sounds good everywhere else, too.
Or that the FBI was confident enough in their ability to steal private keys, or that they believed the keys were low-enough strength that they could crack the keys and decrypt the intercepted data at some point in the future.
I wonder which truths he's referring to there, considering how every truth that was already known in that time seems even more trivial today. In other words: Which truths were just passing the threshold from paradoxical to trivial?

(Or maybe he's just referring to political truths which are coming to light at about the same pace at all times.)
People frequently complain about the complexity of decoding the x86 ISA and that seems to be what you're arguing against. But I didn't see the OP as making that argument at all. Instead it's things like the way x86 handles integer condition codes that has a huge effect on the complexity of the reorder buffer because now you have to track this additional input for each of your instructions.

But quite apart from the transistor cost of various legacy feature is the engineering cost. When designing a new x86 chip you have to make sure that every instruction works correctly in every mode that supports it and that's hard. NRE is a large fraction of the cost of each chip and verification is a big part of that. Intel had all the transistors in place to support SMT early on in the Pentium IV development but they didn't turn it on until Northwood because it was hard for them to make sure it worked reliably. And recently look at the problems Intel has been having getting TSX to work right or the problems AMD had with legacy modes in Ryzen.

And also, decode might not take very many transistors but those transistors are in constant use and consume way more power than the huge seas of 8T SRAM cells in the local cache despite being hugely outnumbered. This is far from the majority of the chip's power but every little bit counts.
Someone who made millions from Bitcoin or some nonsense please give this guy a million dollars. There needs to be some secret fund for people like this. It's obviously not a fair reparation but it's something.
That's actually a central tenant of the NSA's mission. But that mission predates the internet and public key crypto. Now it's like the gas company is running around drilling holes in gas pipes.
Sure, but the non-linear effects he's listing are probably not an issue for headphones. First, they're generally crossover-less and usually single-driver designs and they have very low moving mass which eliminates a host of issues that loudspeakers have. All those things are still there, and probably quantifiable, but I'd imagine that they're all low enough in headphones to be inaudible or 'not a problem.' What absolutely is a problem is manufacturer fuckery with frequency response ala 'megabass' and the like which is what really moves headphone sales. So it makes sense to me that that is what this study focuses on
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Until the million orders are paid with by the money I made illegally?
A law professor who made thinking about the Constitution the focus of his career has similar thoughts: "Let's Give Up on the Constitution", http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/31/opinion/lets-give-up-on-th...

His book, "On Constitutional Disobedience", is now available. I read it, but the piece captures the main idea.
Isn't the main reason for high rent costs in desired places , is the high cost of land, not construction ?
Comfort and fatigue. I can listen to the 240s for longer, and they sound subjectively "flatter" to me. I actually like the sound of the 880s better. Plus the 880s are almost total isolation, which is really useful when tracking in the studio, or when working in a cubicle.
You can find a dry summary here [1]. Basically there is a nice story that Durov constructed over the years, the story of a tough libertarian who stood against the Russian government and was forced out of his business (Vkontakte), having to sell it for a fraction of its true price. He stands by his fellow users, willing to risk his business over their privacy, and now he runs Telegram out of his own pocket because… reasons. He is also in (implied) exile from Russia, he bought a citizenship of some island nation and is now a digital nomad.

I believe that's the gist of his "official" image. However, there are cracks in that story to which I alluded in the comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(social_networking)#2013.E2...
They shouldn't unless they have reason to investigate me. I live in the US. I have a reasonable expectation of privacy and it shouldn't be a crime to not proactively confirm that I'm not committing crimes.
Ugh, I wonder how we ever make any process nowadays.
As long as we are sharing crazy theories...

Boring corporations like boring spaces, and have to pay big, boring salaries to get any talent at all.

On the other hand, cool code slingers may or may not prefer tabs out of personal idiosyncracies, but as long as all of them get shortchanged by the VCs and/or startup founders...
You highly overestimate the people who are in position of power.

I am talking about politicians, head of terrorist groups, etc.

While saying that top politicians are complete idiots is probably wrong - then again maybe not, I am not sure anymore - the fact that H. Clinton, run the most expensive campaign in history, with backing from all major tech corps AND her staff didn't bother to use encryption at any scale, let alone running a mail server (God knows what kind of software the server was running if it was OpenBSD or Windows Server 08), to me says a lot about how flawed the understanding of these people and their consultant's is about today's world.

Watching "House of Cards" everybody seems incredibly smart, driven, etc. but the politicians I see in real life on average and on the not-very-smart side and the few I've met in person are clueless beyond salvation.

Ps. Sorry for possible mistakes, I'm reading from mobile.
truecrypt?
Is there a api for web?
Most productive time of year. Can't physically go outside, nothing to do but code in the Montreal winters.
It can be argued that the GIL doesn't matter, because Python is too slow if you have a performance sensitive problem anyway. I'll give numpy as an example.
The anxiety is killing me without being in medical school. Cancer is the worst.
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Public keys are open, but the hard part is mapping real people to their public keys. How do you know that the public key they send is the real one, and wasn't modified en route? For people you know IRL, this is easy, but for strangers?
Not in my experience of pricey Etymotic, Klipsch and Sennheiser earbuds they don't!

Earbuds/IEMs in their contemporary form are just fundamentally fragile things. The manufacturer making a fat margin doesn't change that.
Yeah, OP swerves towards subjectivism there at the end, which the audio industry loves because it's not quantifiable or easy to compare.
I really shouldn't be reading stuff like this. It makes me so angry. It is odd that so many conservative Americans think racism isn't a thing. Blacks are dismissed as violent thugs, who are the fault of their own problems. But who had acted peaceful and well adjusted if they were subject to as much oppression, prejudice and brutality as the blacks of the US?

People are products of their environments just like animals. A mistreated animal is also bad behaved and violent.
A huge part of the tech market is down like 10%
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This is all about trade-offs right? Choose to have a simpler language when it comes to concurrency and multi-threaded programming and the outcome is a harder time troubleshooting at runtime.

Or, make the compiler more powerful and annotate the code in such a way that the compiler does way more upfront on your behalf...now this means you don't have to work so hard to troubleshoot code in production.

Personally, I'd rather work harder up front--even if it means a higher learning curve.
Anyone can be put into solitary confinement.