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No kidding. The authoritarian security cargo-culting irritates me too.

The fact that 7-zip bugs are rare enough that they make news when they are discovered already says a lot about the overall quality of the code. Many other projects with all the bloaty mitigations and other ostensibly "for security" cruft still manage to create severe bugs on a regular basis.
Employers do have fixed costs per employee. E.g. office space, a desk a computer, accident insurance etc. Fewer employees working more hours each is cheaper than more employees working fewer hours. Even paying me 1.5x for overtime hours turns out to be financially beneficial for my employer once you figure in fixed costs.
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The Radical Humanism of the Soviet Planetarium
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"fit for purpose"

Does that mean in Australia you can return your iPhone when it slows down?
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"fit for the purpose for which they were sold"

Does that mean in Australia you can return your iPhone when it slows down?
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DSLRs already do this, but it's been cracked in the past (Canon and Nikon at least).
I know what the signatures are for but I wonder if there's a simpler way to achieve these objectives.

Server authentication: For example XMPP uses client certificates to authenticate servers to other servers (TLS server certificates usually can be used for client authentication too).

Message authentication: maybe exchanging OpenPGP messages would be easier? They already are signed and the payload can be anything. Of course it's not as easy to list a collection of these messages as it is with JSON (just collect into an array).

> If you avoid LD-signatures then you don't have to mess with JSON-LD canonicalization either,

I want to be interoperable with existing software so avoiding it is not a practical option (although allowed by the ActivityPub spec). Just like having non encrypted HTTP2 is not a practical option (although allowed in the spec).
Not really totally this topic, but I deal with a bunch of 8 Gig images of device firmwares. Is there anything that can make compressing these and de-duplicating these images fast? I have used borg in the past, but archive operations are just seem slow.
It really is crazy.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-...
Cap your wifi at 256kbps. :P
The story of Cliff Young will undoubtedly blow your mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)#Sydney_t...
But that is not the entire story though, Qualcomm did request not going with Wi-Max.
I love questions that get blown up into giant answers.

But in this case he goes on with: "Also, we ignore the folds of the towel."

In my experience as a human, if you don't fold the towel it will fall off, it's only the combination of the fold + the answer that in general will keep it in place.
Actually, scientific research points in opposite direction. Modern bacteria are better adapted than old bacteria.
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And how it relates to programming:

> Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

- Brian Kernighan
If a doctor is leaking data about their patients they will lose their license extremely fast, at least in Europe. Also, the doctor is one office with maybe 1000 patients. A cloud provider will store data for millions making it much more of a target to hack.

I'm not saying we are completely safe, there was a hospital here in Norway that used a foreign company to process health records and it was and still is a big scandal as data like that is is not allowed to leave the country.
> Have the training? Significantly lower.

And the majority of people are not autodidacts so they need somebody to teach them.

The business side of our department are heavy Excel users and yet only a few can use Macros/VB properly and those people are in huge demand.
I think detention before trial is always unfair in principle, but likely unavoidable in practice. I would like to see the issue acknowledged and taken more seriously, but it's a tricky problem and I have no easy solutions to offer. Practical mitigations may be the best we can do, which I'll grant may be expensive, non-trivial to implement, and allow more criminals to roam free. Here are some vague ideas off the cuff:

* Base decisions only on things that would be relevant in a trial, like evidence and criminal history.

* Nobody should be detained just because they haven't paid bail money. If we decide that someone can be released, it should be immediate and unconditional. The court should charge no more than they can immediately collect.

* Make detention as pleasant and convenient as possible for the accused. We should have facilities specifically for this purpose that are more like hotels than prisons, at least in principle.

* Eliminate any trial delays that aren't strictly necessary, i.e. due to congestion or beurocracy.

If a serial killer is caught in the act, there would presumably be enough evidence available at the bail hearing to justify detention.
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You don't know if she's a viewer. And to be a creator you need time which she won't have. Just uploading a few videos won't help her understand the creator's perspective. But I'd be surprised if she didn't use Youtube regularly.
Basically everything they teach you in school is ignored by successful authors at times, but you've got to know the rules before you can know when to break them.
There's a Firefox extension to add the rel=noopener attribute to all links (except ones to the same domain): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dont-touch-my...
I disagree, programming is hard from the perspective of understanding the problems that are needed to be solved.

I agree, programming is easy, if the language allows you to formulate code that is logical and doesn't bite you because of "undefined behaviours" or "implementation defined behaviours".

Logo was and is useful in providing you with specific conceptual patterns for writing code, but does not give the necessary abilities to provide solutions to problems via code.

One can learn the features of Calculus and how to solve Calculus problems. but it is a different matter to learn how to use it as a tool to solve real world problems. This is a different subject altogether. In my undergraduate days, oh so many decades ago, a common refrain from us engineering undergraduates was how often we would be taught something with no reference to how to use that tool for real world problems.

As the years have passed by, I have been pleased to see that in some areas, this disconnect between learning a tool and using that tool for solving real world problems has strongly diminished. There is some excellent material now available that goes a long way to solving this problem. Kudos to those men and women who teach these courses.
None of your criticisms from wikipedia pertain to this publication. The paragraph is essentially making the argument that a randomized, double blind (DB), placebo controlled (PC) clinical trial (RCT) is unlikely to show that curcurmin is effective. yet, the published article is exactly that, and shows a statistically measurable impact on a clinically meaningful endpoint: a direct refutation of the paragraph.

the fact the "interference properties" and being an "unstable, reactive, non-bioavailable compound" is subsumed by the study design.

claims to have studied a bioavailable form of curcumin

This is not really relevant to the claim or conclusions. could it be that the bioavailability matters? maybe. could it be that curcurmin is a trick molecule to study? yes. but come what may, this is direct evidence (not proof) of a cause-effect relationship between this treatment and the outcome.

the only thing this effects is the chance that other forms of curcurmin will be comparable (and it might have consequences for regulatory status by the FDA).

The study also notes its sample was small

This is a very weak criticism when the study is positive (i.e. shows an effect). when the sample size (and statistical power) of the study is small, you need a BIG EFFECT SIZE to be positive. The fact that the trial was positive actually means that it's more likely to be clinically important, because a big effect size means it protects memory in a dramatic way. This is like penicillin: in the pre-antibiotic era, how many cases of pneumonia do you need to treat in order to be satisfied that penicillin is effective? Not bloody many, because the effect size is so dramatic. Likewise for parachutes. few are the therapies that fall into this category, but when you have an inkling that one does following a DB, PC, RCT, you better pay attention.

So does it need to be replicated? definitely. does the sponsorship matter? definitely; they could have cheated in some way. until then does it make sense to prescribe this to seniors, or encourage them to increase curcurmin in their diet? quite possibly, given the presumably low rate of adverse effects.

Bottom line: this study is not the end-all be-all of curcurmin and memory, but there is legitimate early evidence that the emperor has clothes.

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Wes Bos has a free video course: https://cssgrid.io/ which he says is about 4 hours long - might be a good balance? I haven't took this course yet, but I've took enough of his others to know I won't regret recommending it. :)
Honestly this is still photoshopping. It's just automated photoshopping.
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I'd recommend The Lathe of Heaven. Short and extremely powerful.
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Ask HN: What is the best option for live video stream(cheap)?
Hello guys, I've got an idea to build something that involves streaming webcam to many users.

I have considered the following:

- Twilio Programmable Video (exactly what i need but it's not that cheap)

- WebRTC(peer2peer) - works, but requires for broadcaster to have good upload speed

- WebRTC(server is peer) - not that easy to implement

- nginx rtmp with a webrtc gateway - huh...

- red5 server

- encoding the cam data on the client and streaming buffer to the server directly

Do you guys have maybe some ideas how would you do this kind of thing. But do it as cheaply as possible.

Thanks :)
You probably could, but I'm assuming there's just so many things that are pretty arbitrary. Take for example a dog. We breed dogs to display a huge number of differences, and only some of these are skeletal. From bones alone there's no way to tell how jowly the muzzle of the dog is, or what colour and length its hair, how musculature it is. Dogs are bred by humans, but many species have extravagant, non-skeletal features use in mating displays that are bred purely by arbitrary sexual selection and have nothing to do with diet, climate, or any other factor you could determine from fossil remains.
Yes. Programming obviously has such tools too, and in both cases their ultimate goal is to help you with all complexity that's incidental to the core of the work you're doing. Sometimes the overall reduction in complexity will allow you, as Bret Victor puts it, to "think new thoughts" - but in the end, you eventually hit the core of essential complexity of the task, and you can't be more accessible than that.

What you can do, though, is cheat with the scope. Not all writing is novels, and not all programming is large distributed systems. Writing a semi-structured limerick, or a half-assed bash script, is much easier. Ultimately, I feel that the goal of programming literacy should be to let people use computation to solve their own specific problem. That is much simpler than general programming. For instance, plenty of people program in Excel. Or in Tasker (an Android automation app). There is lots of uncharted space in designing better interfaces and paradigms for such small-scale programming (unfortunately, this goes completely against modern UI/UX "wisdom", that is all about removing user's agency from the equation).
If anyone else found that unsatisfying, here is a recent book that does a better job of telling the story of tracking animals:

http://wheretheanimalsgo.com/baboons/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1846148812

More generally when it comes to tracking animals...

What I want to see is facial recognition for animals, so that some one-way hash resolves to a name, so anyone who pointed their phone at a particular bird would reliably get the name determined by the facial recognition hash, so it could be consistently a 'Trevor' for instance. Of course 'Trevor' could be tagged in photos in this bold new future of 'facial recognition for birds' so it might be possible to find him in lots of different social media posts with different people and in different locations.

By default 'Trevor' would have a shadow Facebook profile complete with shadow profile links to his other half, mum and the rest of the flock.

More seriously, I do wonder at applications for this alt-coin circus that has come along and whether a large database of every living creature on the planet could be magically possible using these magic blockchain technologies.

So, very much tongue in cheek, when it comes to implementing 'facial recognition for birds, hamsters and many tens of thousands of species', how would the 'ICO' work out?

I am sure this could all be easily done and coded up by next Friday by a teenager if it was based on blockchain technologies with coins being mined by adding new animals to the distributed database photographically. To lure ICO bitcoin-bores in this magic database would be super fast because it would be modelled on DNA and therefore compact, albeit forked on a per-species basis so fish coins could be traded for apex primate coins but not necessarily vice-versa. All of this blockchain could solve the hard problem of digital rights management, so if 'Trevor' appeared in the back of one of your selfie pictures then the micro-payment for that would pay out with 'Trevor' getting his share of Instagram likes.
These monkey twins are the first primate clones
There is a Public crypto system based off error correcting codes that is quantumly secure. It's the McEliece cryptosystem, it's about as old as RSA. However, the key sizes are in 10's of thousands to 100's of thousands of bits.

From my reading most crytographers think it's is secure. So if you need it now. You could probably get away with using it. However, one should have a decent explanation to why use a less well known algorithm. It's probably had less eyes looking at so a major flaw/attack could exists, but it's not if one does exist.
Agree. Delay showing pts for a few days maybe the other option.

The points do help in surfacing articles and comments.
Nobody needs to see them instantly.
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Except that it was preregistered, as described in the article.

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01383161?cond=NCT0138...

It's great to be skeptical, but it's really lame to be skeptical and lazy. It's a terrible combination that causes patients not to trust their doctors.
It's not that bad. I turn on my computer and type:

echo "This is nice."

and it does.

Then, I type:

for i in {1..10}; do
echo "This works too! Number $i"
done

And it does.
Or the more generic: if it is you think it is stupid but it works, you might be wrong about it being stupid.
Yes, please. I try not to go to NYT articles (I just try to avoid the paywall system) and this one fooled me.
You'll probably get a lot of T-Rexes with trunks.
I think, the reason for misinterpretation of skeletons is the missing information about other material than bones.

However, taking the hippo as an example, some convex bone shapes seem to be a hint for neighboring body fat and muscle. I'd check first, if current artists would do better after training themselves on living animals. Also, I'd check whether reptiles can get as fat as mammals, etc.
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So you believe in all honesty that fees and exchange activity amount to 850 million dollars of brand new fiat deposits to the tether company in the last three weeks alone? From exchanges that don't offer actual USD facilities?

This seems absolutely unbelievable to me, and will continue to do so until there is proof of above-board dealing. As it is we have the opposite - the auditors who were previously in the picture have discontinued their relationship with Bitfinex and Tether.
Not exactly an unusual circumstance. And that is a good thing. If our clients understood the technicalities of what we do as well as we do for them, they probably wouldn't need to pay us for project work...
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Tether is a depository and lending facility for all these exchanges, self funded like a prime brokerage but run by the United States Department of Treasury (USDT). It is unknown if their motive is to take all the liquidity out of btc or if this is this is how the The government will control crypto and will own all of these exchanges eventually.
>It's not an expectation at non-startup tech companies.

Not true in the slightest. Before you get to talk to the engineers like this, you must first pass the HR filter.

HR are not engineers, but they think they see a parallel to their own work.

In HR, all HR applicants are expected to have a linkedin page, because linkedin makes HR's life a lot easier. I have Strong Opinions about this state of affairs, but none the less, there is a hovering perception in most HR offices of "if you don't have a linkedin page, how good at your job can you really be?".

So then HR hears the engineers talking about github and profiles and sharing code and they dig a bit, and they often decide that github is basically linkedin for engineers. Lets be real, they're kinda right in some ways.

But they're dead wrong in others. Lets not get sidetracked, but just say there are valid reasons some people don't use it. Engineers have the full picture and know this. Like you say, most professional engineers won't judge you for not having github.

However, HR lacks the context to understand this, and so they increasingly throw out engineering CV's that don't include a github link. It's a growing problem.
How do you know the total amount of fiat put into crypto?
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>> this Bitfinex employee comment suggests it could be other cryptocurrencies

If it's other crypto then surely the backing of tether is at-risk in any market crash just as much as any other crypto-currency. Surely that entirely defeats the whole point?
> Colour me skeptical.

Can also be arranged, as long as the colour of sceptical is an off-orange shade.
> Even IF those tethers are 1:1 backed today, they won't be once uncle sam figures it out.

I 100% agree, this is also the reason why there is no public audit ;)
There is a law in California against using someone's likeness without their permission. NPR's Planet Money podcast did an episode about it called "Frank Sinatra's Mug":

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

The actual law: "Any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness, in any manner on or in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of products, merchandise, goods or services, without such person's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of his parent or legal guardian, shall be liable for any damages sustained by the person or persons injured as a result thereof."

This particular case seems to be straightforward breach of contract, though. The company had already licensed Grumpy Cat for one product, but then added Grumpy Cat onto other products they didn't have a license for.
Is there a type specific algorithm for data that mostly consists of close numbers? I figure if I send the deltas only it would be just a sequence of small / close numbers that would easily be compressed by standard compression libraries.

An example of close number sequences is just simple graphs. Your CPU temperature is 78 degrees, most likely it'll be 78, 79 or 77 the next tick, so they're almost close, the delta's will be 0's and 1's usually.
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Tldr; fetal position
Did he have to or did he assume he had to?
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One cigarette a day 'increases heart disease and stroke risk'
Not sure, but is it not that bookmarklets need to be clicked by user on every page visit, whereas Extension can auto process every page visit without user intervention?
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That wasn't my point about feeling wrong about Android APIs, surely there are some restrictions due to programming resource constrained devices.

Any Java developer that used Java Card, J2ME or Embedded Java is quite aware of them.

A native Java dev would not have used Hungarian notation, snake case identifiers, allocation of classes just to fake out parameters which could be returned as result,have event handlers with unused parameters repeating AWT design errors and a couple of other things that I could still rant on.
Yes but then how will I know which comments are valid and acceptable.... We must have points for I am unable to think for myself and need the points system to tell me which views are correct /s
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It's surprising how throwing a random name on something will make you want to buy it. A local pub near my office sells Trooper, a type of ale "created' by Iron Maiden, and the novelty of it seems to result in most people trying at least a pint of it.

For those that are interested, it's alright, but not my favourite. I'd recommend trying it if you get a chance.
The all famous, "Don't get high on your own supply" :)
Congrats, really clever! How are you getting data from Airbnb? Just scrapping or using any available API? I was trying to create a service based on Airbnb data as well but didn't find any available API to get the data
Well, if you want a non-fanfiction citation, there's this from Eliezer's regular non-fiction blogging:

Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don't go calling it nasty names like "bizarre" or "incredible". The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not "weird". You are weird. You have the absolutely bizarre idea that reality ought to consist of little billiard balls bopping around, when in fact reality is a perfectly normal cloud of complex amplitude in configuration space. This is your problem, not reality's, and you are the one who needs to change.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/hs/think_like_reality/

(Really, a lot of insights in HPMOR are just reiterations of points Eliezer made in his Sequences.)
People will serve whatever the software wants; serving only want the user explicitly selected is just an option.

For example, in Freenode you don't control what gets downloaded and served (which also helps to hide what you're fetching on purpose).
At this point hearsay from r/tethers that it's around $10 billion, as an estimate from JP Morgan, I'll try to find something more concrete.
Guy was thoroughly anti-linux- i got that at least.