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People usually aren't trying to protect their drive contents with encryption while the drive is mounted and the computer is running. If the drive is encrypted, anyone trying to gain access won't care if OSX has a backdoor because it will all be encrypted in the volume. The only thing that will matter is a backdoor allowing decryption of the volume.

You could use your argument to state that someone paranoid enough to use encryption just shouldn't use a computer at all.
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I don't know where to ask this, but this might be the best place so I'll ask.

I have a ton of .tiff files that are tiles of a map, at the most zoomed in level. These tiff rasters are accompanied each by a .tfw file, which tells which tile goes where. Is there code that allows me to "live export" maps? As in, without prerendering them into 256x256 tiles first.

For example, I receive a batch of files on a filled external hard drive and have to present them to a client in 10 minutes; so I cannot render, but they can tolerate loading times per zoom in for the scale of 30 seconds as each zoom level is pieced together.

Is this possible?
You wouldn't be able to do hidden volumes in such a manner.
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There was no "AAA" tranche, all the tranches were garbage.

I suggest you go educate yourself. The banks constructed securities which were rated by various agencies as AAA.

Regardless of whether the AAA rating was deserved, the which the banks sold had a lower risk than the non-AAA rated tranches which the banks kept on their books. Why would they do this if they knew the securities were unlikely to pay off?

This is the first time I've heard that "foreclosure" is rewarding someone.

According to the article, regulators are pressing banks to pay $20B, "with much of the money earmarked to reduce mortgages of homeowners facing foreclosure." That's a reward for people unable to meet their obligations, many of whom are likely to have lied on their application.

...the bank falsified the application themselves.

[citation needed]
I just think the patterns for what makes a good library interface haven't completely coalesced yet. One can introduce horrifically complex interfaces in Ruby as well, but the best libraries expose a simple, consistent interface.
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I don't think this is generally true. I can certainly think of a few classes I passed while hardly showing up.

But there are some reasons you might need to regularly show up even without the case of a teacher who counts attendance (which the school might require of them if it's an intro sort of class). There might be unscheduled in-class quizzes (I think this is pretty rare). More commonly, though, the teacher may not have bothered to set up a course website, so without showing up you won't know what the homework is or when the tests are. The latter is something I remember quite a few cases of.

Even if you don't show up, the course still takes up time in the sense that you can generally only register for so many classes at a time.
To anyone who had a computer in the past 5 years, recorded music is not worth anything. Sorry, but that's just the way it is.

If you want to make a pledge to keep paying for buggy whips, go right ahead. I'm sure there are people who would argue that buggy whips have intrinsic value -- but the market for a buggy whip right now is basically nil.

Same thing with recorded music. If you want to make money as a musician, you don't make it through recordings, you make it through extortionate "public performance" licenses, by doing concerts (and selling $30 t-shirts), or by offering experiences that people can't get elsewhere (pay $50 a year and get access to my website where I post about my tour and post unreleased samples and occasionally mail you a trinket, or whatever.)

I also don't understand the undertone of righteous indignation at Spotify's existence. I can listen to the radio, where songs are played gratis. I can record those songs (legally!) for my own personal use as much as I want. The only difference with Spotify is that I don't physically push "record", and that's the kind of semantic difference only a lawyer would love.
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Umm... care to elaborate? I'm not sure which bit you're disagreeing with here.
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Are you suggesting that thousands of average home buyers were able to defraud the army of professional bankers, brokers and lawyers?

Did you read the article? The article claims this is exactly what happened.
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Some (all? I don't know) schools and regulations tie up your financial aid with attendance in some way or another. It's often more concerning than the grades, but easier to game.
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This is what annoys me the most about the whole "Killerspiele" debate.

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I was shown the paywall, even though I've hardly visited any page from WSJ from the computer I'm working on.
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I wouldn't call it obnoxious.

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It has always bothered me that Baye's theorem is a named result, instead of just "the law of conditional probability," say. As soon as you formally define conditional probability, it is obvious.

To be fair, though, I think he discovered it before probability theory was formalized, and I can see how it may have been non-obvious at the time. Sometimes the best progress makes challenging insights appear obvious in hindsight - nice work, Laplace!
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Sometimes, however, attendance policies are also benevolent paternalism: I say this because I teach English comp at the University of Arizona. Students who don't show up tend to miss a lot of the material and don't do especially well—hence the attendance policy. And the stuff that's done in class (discussion, close reading, sentence construction, and so forth) is stuff that can't really be made up outside of class—as I tell students, if you could do it at home, I'd say, "Do it at home" and I'd do something else in class.

Yeah, there's a correlation != causation problem with weak students who tend to miss class being the ones who most need it, but the overall idea of class doing things that can't really be done otherwise still holds. There are also a certain number of students who say or believe, "I'm already a good writer; I don't need to take a composition class." Out of the ~300 I've taught, that's probably been true of one to five, or so, but far more seem to have believed it.

A school like the one listed sounds great. It also sounds like it'll work best for the highly motivated. One problem with the HN posts about how universities are wasteful, unnecessary, and so on, is that a pretty small percentage of people are willing to do university-caliber work without the structure of the university. HN posters tend to forget about the other 97% of the world. I tend to see them, and so do a lot of other teacher / prof types.
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I'm the engineering lead on the Silverlight player at Netflix. Honestly, I love it when people underestimate the complexity of the player. To me, it means we're doing a good job. 3+ years of releasing every 2 weeks and still no settings dialog. It always just does the right thing.

Regarding S3, S3 is not a CDN.

To your point about disintermediation, it's a good question. A direct to consumer play by the content owners would cut out Starz as well as Netflix. The last time the studios did that, it didn't end so well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures#1941.E2.80.9....

I can think of a couple good reasons it wouldn't work out today, either. I'd predict that the business model of a content silo would be less profitable than the current system. Studios make more money when they have multiple distribution channels; distributing their own goods would give rise to conflicting incentives. Also, you need the DNA of a software company to compete in the streaming space. Studios are built to make movies; Netflix (and Amazon) are built to make software, and it's software that powers streaming. Even if that software is almost invisible.
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> Twitter provided identifiers for approximately 16 million tweets sampled between January 23rd and February 8th, 2011.

> Note that it can take several days to download your copy of the Tweets2011.

Why does Twitter make it so cumbersome to download tweets, especially for non-commercial reasons? Twitter data can be REALLY useful to researchers. Here's what I'm doing with it: http://ktype.net/wiki/research:articles:progress_20110209

I'd love to re-run my parsing algo and build a newer, better n-gram list but this seems like a lot of effort to download what could have been a simple torrent. I understand the need to enforce delete-tweet request but that can still be accomplished regardless of how the data is downloaded.
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I agree, and started writing about that in my first comment before rereading tseabrooks comment.

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Haskell allows for introspection, using a technique called Generic Programming. There are a lot of ways to do it, but one way is http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/haskell-web.html.

As for the second part: so true. Thanks for the insight. In part two I'll write about that.
It really is just like the "freedom and responsibility culture" slide deck at http://www.netflix.com/Jobs

That deck isn't just aspirational, it's how the company actually runs.

So the answer is that Netflix is not for everyone. High performers and those who can take smart risks tend to like it. Those who prefer lots of process or are more risk averse tend not to.
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Often it's required of the prof as well. Mandating classroom attendance is a way for colleges to retain students through two means:

1): Making N% of the grade attendance based means that students have to do even less well to fail the course.

2): For a student who would need to learn the material to pass, there is a learning benefit to attending the class. Moreover, more people in a lecture hall is going to create an impression that you do need to show up to pass.
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As someone who downloaded the corpus I can tell you that's not how it works. What you are downloading from nist is a java twitter html crawler and a list of tweet ids that you have to download directly from twitter.

It took me a week or more to download the complete 16 million tweets.

Another problem with the corpus is the fact that (at the time I downloaded the tweets) around 2% of the tweets in the corpus were no longer available from twitter as users deleted their twitter account. The longer you wait, the more tweets are going to be unavailable.
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(Response to above, and most of its responses.)

I understand that you can not show up and pass a class, but why in the world would you spend all that money and time on a physical university if you aren't going to go to class? Why not just read a book and get a job?
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