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Madison, WI, USA - Linux Operator (fulltime, no remote)

I'm leaving my awesome job in the University of Wisconsin Department of Physics at the end of this month and I want you to take over.

Our group operates a large (>=1PB disk, >=2500 cores) analysis facility that physicists from Wisconsin and around the world use to search for the Higgs boson (we're part of the CMS collaboration at the LHC). We work with peers at universities across the US and Europe to provide dozens of PB and millions of hours of computing each day. We write programs, share our code, optimize systems, distribute computing and occasionally rack hardware.

We like Python, Perl, Mercurial, shell tricks, SSH, Jabber, Ganglia, Apache and Nginx, Varnish and Squid, Scientific Linux (it's like Centos), APIS, (more) metrics, (fewer) alerts, CFEngine, Hadoop, Condor, KVM and libvirt, AFS and FUSE. We're reflexively open:

http://hg.hep.wisc.edu/
http://ganglia.hep.wisc.edu/ganglia

You don't need to have worked with many or any of the above, but you're excited about learning (or teaching us why your way works better). You're familiar with running a Linux system and wonder what breaks when you run hundreds of them. Repetitive tasks irritate you; open-ended problems pique your interest. You look forward to learning from colleagues with deep knowledge of C and systems programming; distributed computing; statistics and data analysis; and Indian food. You've been looking for a job where you're free to choose the right tech for the problem at hand and you itch to justify the choice empirically. Most of all, you're curious.

The position hasn't yet been officially listed, but I'd love to talk to you. Please feel free to email me at wcmaier@hep.wisc.edu or grab me on IRC (lt_kije on freenode). If you're a student, we'll take you on as a student hourly until you graduate. Otherwise, the university only likes to hire people with a BS/BA.
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I remember when it was "We owe our jobs to Bill Gates".
Speech jamming gun freezes any talker mid-sentence
Am I the only one who wants to mount a nerf gun on a squad of these and then play war in the back yard?
If it weren't so elaborate I would be convinced that that website is a joke.
Totally agree with this, and love them in the common case (intersections of single lane streets). And we have a few in various places, however the lack of experience with the American driver leads to some interesting results. One person insisted that when there wasn't a light you had to treat it like a 4-way stop!
I've been looking at Mailgun for an upcoming project, and I must say "bravo" on the new website design.
Probably because no one understands them. Using myself as an example, any time I've had to do any work with certs, I've had trouble figuring out how to get them to work at all. I'm no security expert, but neither are most devs.
I'm at a loss for words or analysis but I love this article, it really pumped me up, time to get back to development.
I find "deadline" just has such a negative connotation to it, I would prefer to use a word like "progress" instead.

"How is progress going?", rather than "Are we gonna meet the deadline?"
Great post. I too noticed that the author's "combat experiences" seemed to be more about relating the experiences of his friends than his own personal thoughts and feelings.

The best analysis I've seen about the combatant are the works of LCol. Grossman. On Combat and On Killing are outstanding pieces of work that say pretty much the exact opposite of W here.
Given that a good 50% or so use IE, yes?
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Or just plain old git...
Maybe I missed it, but contra the title, I did not see any robots flying in the TED venue. Since I've seen most of these other vids (but not that), that's what I was looking for :(
We don't get involved with your application logic for when to send emails. We just make it very easy to send and track them programmatically.

Edit:
For example: you can create and destroy mailing lists programmatically, send emails without worrying about MIME, set a specific delivery time for your emails based on when users are most likely to click on them, access analytics through API, etc.
That may be Github's intention - to build a simple interface that makes it extremely easy to get your feet wet with GIT. Several of the design decisions they've made - replacing pull and push commands with Sync, automatically stashing changes when switching branches - seem to aim for the simplest possible solution, at the expense of flexibility.
> Light with spin or orbital angular momentum can be used to make these small object rotate!

Thank you, that was exactly the effect I was looking for. Any links handy? Fascinating stuff, this from an old microwave-digital guy.
Totally agree! We're working on a redesign now that will feature some user pets in the mix on a rotating basis. =)
Assuming the holographic system uses voxels, it would need to be capable of displaying 108,900 (330x330) voxels per cubic inch to allow the same level of resolution as an iPhone 4 if it produces a flat surface. This would allow Retina-quality images when viewed from at least 11 inches away.

Assuming also that one voxel is 32 bits and not compressed, then the hologram would be 435,600 bytes per frame per cubic inch. At 24fps (you did say "film") that's 10,454,400 bytes per second per cubic inch.

Let's say it projects a hologram to fill a room the dimensions of a Star Trek-style holodeck, a cube of maybe 10 metres on a side. That's about 400 inches on a side, or 64,000,000 cubic inches. That means that a holographic film would be 669,081,600,000,000 bytes (608.5 terabytes) per second.

So, to answer your question, a 2 hour holographic film would be 4,817,387,520,000,000,000 bytes (4.178 exabytes) in size.
Polynomially. Not exponentially. The surface area of a sphere doesn't grow exponentially with radius.
> Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare.

The story may be a bit more nuanced that that:

From a review of "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World"

(http://www.diplomacy.edu/resources/books/reviews/genghis-kha...):

"Arguably, however, Genghis Khan and the Mongols were the dominant force that shaped Eurasia and consequently the modern world. Not for what they destroyed – though they wrought much destruction all over the continent – but for what they built. They came close to uniting Eurasia into a world empire, and in so doing they spread throughout it technologies like paper, gunpowder, paper money, or the compass – and trousers. They revolutionised warfare. More lastingly, in the word's of the author: ' ...they also created the nucleus of a universal culture and world system. (...) With the emphasis on free commerce, open communication, shared knowledge, secular politics, religious coexistence, international law, and diplomatic immunity.' ".

http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/06...
Yep, but it's a shame that was the only option available.
My experience as well. I tried to implement client side certificates for an internal system (changing computers/browsers/ugly UI/etc not an issue), but couldn't quite get it to work.

And in that setting not worth the time compared to Basic Auth.
Someone who is trained to take and give a hit will always have a significantly better chance in a fight.

All the judo skills in the world aren't going to help you when a guy 100 meters away tears a plate-sized hole in your back with Mr. 5.56.
Basically what's happened here and elsewhere is Apple's profile is so big now and there is so much money to be made writing and breaking scoops about them that everything is under much more intense scrutiny then before.

Apple is like the country drifter who's been able to avoid the Barney Fifes at the local sheriffs offices but get's caught once the FBI forensic team is brought in.

The expectation I guess is more secrecy. When they're internally testing iOS 7 they sure as hell won't call it iOS 7 before the announcement. They may approach a number of these sites and offer payments for NDA, (this information is presumably more valuable to Apple then it is to Ars so they can just pay Ars). More intentional misdirection.
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Read their blogs and you will see that SO is keen that you use any available OpenID provider to log in to their site - they have no interest in any one such provider.

Should you have persevered through the terribly difficult task of establishing a password with them then - wow- you would have had a new OpenID you could have used at other sites - without creating yet another username/password combination.

These guys are doing you a favour at their (small) expense and you see it as some sort of con.

Some word combination of horse teeth and gift comes to mind - but whingers there will always be.
I wish Apple would turn its gift for innovation toward manufacturing so they can bring those jobs back home to America, or at least some percentage of them. That would be a very noble effort on their part.
Well I frequently use client certs. My company develops and maintains an web-based application platform. The platform is only accessible using client certs and used daily by a couple of thousand people.
You mistake the purpose of SETI. The idea is not to attempt to pick up stray EM transmissions from extra terrestrial civilizations, almost certainly that idea is a non-starter for a wide variety of reasons. Instead, the goal is to pick up signals which are intentionally beamed at Earth.

There are a lot of caveats on whether or not that makes sense, but assuming that an ET civilization has detected our planet (which they could do from across the galaxy) and they want to send us a message then it's not too crazy to imagine they might use radio to do so. Also, looking for such signals is pretty cheap, and the potential impact of such a detection would be enormous, so why not spend a little effort looking?
I believe Windows 8 has this built in, but doesn't have a critical mass yet.
I'm sure pentagon types are thinking just that... minus the nerf part. :)

The first thing I thought of how many lives could be saved with scouting buildings.
Usability and cost are the biggest concerns. It might even end up being less secure. You have to carry your key pair with you and import it into the browser anywhere you want to use it.

You have to make sure you delete the key (securely, ideally) before leaving the machine. What is the guarantee that the machine you are trying to use is not compromised or holding on to your keys?

Even then the website is not sure if its really you. They also need to implement a password based authentication. Some one stealing your keys is more possible (given that you want to login from any machine) than some stealing your password. Of course they can guess your password but I won't get into that.

One way to do it would be to build a dongle that has keys and provides the authetication service on behalf of the user. But then we would need multiple identities, which means we need multiple certificates and the cost will multiply.

Anonymity is completely gone. Even if the CA grants you an "anonymous" certificate it can always be traced back to you based on the cert parameters.

So no.
Apple's patents would have be auctioned in bankruptcy; perhaps to Sun, IBM, Oracle, or Microsoft themselves. Might have gone for more than the Apple investment.
This looks very promising... I've been looking for a CRM solution for my company for awhile. Question: is there a way to set up a gmail filter to add existing client e-mails and contacts into a box?
The other talk (not yet on-line) featured a remote-controlled hummingbird drone flying around the TED stage.

See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgbdKNsw3Kc
The context here is for products where one would sell a product or service directly to customers e.g. SaaS, enterprise. Crowd-sourcing is a different model. So are multi-sided and marketplace models.
On Combat and On Killing are outstanding pieces of work that say pretty much the exact opposite of W here.

This might be because W is an intelligent Brit who enlisted as a private solider.

Grossman is an intelligent American who accepted a commission.

Different experiences, different cultures.
So, paintball? Because I don't know of any video game where you shoot another human being.

I do know of plenty of games where you "shoot" blocks of pixels. And I assure that I'm perfectly capable of distinguish them, both at a rational and emotional level.
IIS 5 used to have issues with client certificates. I remember random php process crashes when we tried using them.
No offense taken. I see where you're coming from. Styling is something I do AFTER getting to know you and what's going on beneath the surface. It should be a reflection of your own personal style and not all about what I [she] wants to see. Some of you don't know what your personal style is, but there's definitely potential. I'm here to help with that...but it starts with a conversation.

I am not charging for this...yet.
Copycat is the most unambiguous word I can think of.
I love deadlines. Especially the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

-- Douglas Adams
This is definitely a service I can see myself using in the future if I ever bust my iPhone. Congrats.
It seems that the only type of client cert we're likely to see in wide use on the web in the near future are origin-bound certificates (Google):
http://www.browserauth.net/origin-bound-certificates

The proposal is to automatically generate a self-signed cert for each origin. This gets rid of many of the UI problems: it eliminates the need to choose which cert to send to each site (which also means the user can't be tracked across sites via OBCs, and thus the user doesn't need to grant permission before sending his cert).

On the other hand, it doesn't solve the problem of re-authenticating on different machines. It's not proposed as a primary authentication mechanism, but instead as a means of strengthening ordinary HTTP session cookies (http://www.browserauth.net/channel-bound-cookies).
Help: iTunes App Store Submission Delays
Hello all,

We have an iOS app that has been in the store for over a year. We have continuously been updating and improving it. In the latest version, we introduced in-app purchases. The App Team at Apple has had a lot of trouble testing it, due to not reading instructions carefully, but more particularly, they are very slow to respond to emails. When they ask a question, we respond within 5 minutes, and they then take at least 24hrs to respond.

We have submitted emails to the general contact form and had no response after nearly 24hrs.

The app has now been under review for over 2 weeks, including one rejection where we had to resubmit a binary.

My question is: Is this normal and what can I do to get them to test the app and approve it? Is there any way to contact a human at Apple?

Thanks,

Jonathan
> That "imaginary" currency ...

The currency that you get paid with on SO, Github, mailing lists, open source software etc is reputation. In many circumstances (eg getting a job) it is far more valuable than real currency.
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Still, the amount stolen in Bitcoins here is probably small potatoes next to the value of all the credit cards and personal details stored in other Linode instances. If someone can hack their admin panel and get root access to 8 accounts, they can get access to all the accounts. This time it happened to be done by someone who was going after the Bitcoins. But how can they claim anything in the way of security?

People who host on a VPS typically do so because they want to run complex applications that scale up, and do so without the cost or headaches of adding more physical hardware. Most people who use Linode probably do not do so to host static webpages, which can be done just fine on a shared server for a quarter the price. While Linode might be cheap, they do claim to be secure, and if they didn't it's doubtful people would host their apps there. And most apps do take some personal information; and a large number of them take financial details.

No one would use Linode to host their apps if they thought all accounts were rootable from a master login panel. And no one would use them to host static pages. So who would their customers be if people didn't expect their instances to be secure?
ICracked doesn't seem like the typical internet startup: an app/platform. Instead, they're solving a problem that a lot of people face by having a more local solution/presence.

I find it interesting how YCombinator is diversifying the type of companies in their portfolio. Kudos to YC for doing this -- I think it definitely opens up more opportunities for people.
There is another option: the public university system. In most states, it's very cheap (re: you can work to pay for it), especially given financial aid.

Now, many high schoolers do not consider this to be an option for them (i.e., not the "learning" type). Figuring out why that happens to so many people is a harder question.
I am in as well! Excellent idea!
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but frankly..nearly every frontline veteran I've ever met seems like an uneducated, violent and scary thug.

I never went to war, but I was a rifleman in the Marines, spent eight years there.

One thing I've noticed about me, and other guys like me, is that you'd never know on first acquaintance that I was a Marine. Commonly heard: But you don't look/act like a Marine!

I suspect you've met more so-called 'frontline veterans' than you think.
>> Civilized society? Not at all. Just organized tribal warfare.

> The story may be a bit more nuanced that that:

Make that a lot more nuanced:

(From the same review cited above):

"The Mongols' was the first modern army. It was built on a rational structure (based, like the Roman legion, on units in the multiple of tens) and promotion was strictly on merit. Thoroughly disciplined and highly mobile – infantry was unknown – it could execute complex tactical manoeuvres in silence upon orders from centralised command. Speed and efficiency in conquest were their trademark, and the source of the fear they struck in the enemy. Horse and bow where the Mongol warriors' strength – and it the end their weakness. Forests hindered the deployment of mounted armies, in the humid heat of India the bows failed, and the horses' strength faded when they could not find pastures in the Syrian desert.

Warfare technology and logistics were other factors in the Mongols' superiority. The gunpowder formula was changed to yield explosive force, rather than slow burn as in fire-lances and rockets. Guns and cannon were developed. Specialised troops of craftsmen were skilled in building complex siege machines from local materials – obviating the need to move them over long distances. They perfected sapping of walls, thus making static defence impossible. A dedicated medical corps looked after the wounded. The army and its horses spread across the plains for forage and sustenance, thus obviating for the need for supply lines – yet a sophisticated communication system based on melodies to ensure accurate memorisation allowed the scattered troops to regroup at short notice and to remain in touch with the distant leadership.

The intelligence system was second to none, and the Mongols knew much more about the lands they were about to invade than the defenders knew about the Mongols – if nothing else because the latter lived off the land and needed to know where water and pastures were to be found. In addition, the Mongols developed highly sophisticated methods of psychological warfare, spreading rumours about their cruelty and destruction. This unsettled the rural populations that then fled before the advancing army, hamstringing the defence efforts."
On Killing DOES NOT agree with the premise that soldiers are sociopaths. It makes the exact opposite claim. He says that tools that have been employed to increase firing rates have themselves increased the PTSD rate to astronomical levels.

PTSD's existence itself (at levels since Vietnam) proves that W's thesis is incorrect. Grossman's allowance for sociopathic behaviour is a demonstrated, consistent 2%.
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1) Focusing on Apple products is really smart. I know people who are quite happy with iPhone 3 or 3GS still. I don't know a lot of people using early non-Apple smartphones (I probably know more people using old Nokia 1100s or even T34s than old smartphones, because they work in places where cameras are banned on campus, and phones are ok in some areas otherwise). Apple products are also well engineered, but have weird special parts which are otherwise hard to source.

2) Having retail, mail-in, and DIY together is more than the sum of the parts. There are some products where I want retail, others where mail in is ok, and others where I'd DIY; depends on the product, the data on the product, and where I am (I ended up buying new laptops to replace broken ones when overseas, since I couldn't be without one for a month to have it shipped off for service).

This could be the Amazon of aftermarket repair -- the one place I go to first and don't bother looking elsewhere to save 5-10% on price.
I can't wait to hear from the PC laptop manufacturers after the iPad 3 is released. How can Apple release a 2048x1536 (10 inch!) iPad when laptop OEMs have been claiming for years that 4:3 screens are DEAD? And that 768 vertical pixels is about the max we'll ever get on smaller screens?

ThinkPad: "Since these manufacturers make more selling TV displays than laptop displays, the PC vendors have almost zero say in this change. We simply have to adapt. As much as I would like it to be so, 4:3 is not coming back."
http://blog.lenovo.com/perspectives/display-ratio-change-aga...
The quadroter in the gentleman's hand landed there at the start of the talk, but otherwise it was all in the videos.
Please don't use local storage. It's synchronous and will hang the entire browser or tab while the script is loading: http://paul.kinlan.me/we-need-to-kill-off-the-localstorage-a...
Wow, this looks fantastic. Can't wait to try it out.

(We've been using MailGun successfully for over a year now to send all of our outgoing email for Lanyrd - hasn't caused us a single problem)
Yes a driver written that uses IOMMU/VT-d for firewire devices will prevent attacks over it from dumping memory and recovering keys, assuming that the memory isn't reused and contains it already etc. Having this combined with a quick way to zero out whatever DMA region is being used would be about as foolproof as you could expect anything to be for protecting you from this kind of attack.
apparently the word "bug" was already in common usage at the time, though.
Grossman is a psychology professor, specializing in the psychology of killing and its effects on humans.

Add "different skillset" to your comparison while you are at it.
bitcoin is still around?